Obama calls for 'common ground' on abortion at Notre Dame (There is no common ground)

cnn ^ | 5/17/2009 | cnn

[tobyhill]

President Obama delved into the abortion debate in a controversial Notre Dame commencement address Sunday, calling for a search for common ground on one of the most divisive issues in American politics.

Addressing a sharply divided audience at the storied Catholic university, Obama conceded that no matter how much Americans "may want to fudge it ... at some level the views of the two camps are irreconcilable."

"Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction," he said. "But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature."

The commencement ceremony was boycotted by a number of graduates dismayed by the university's decision both to tap Obama as its commencement speaker and to give him an honorary degree. The president is a supporter of abortion rights and federally-funded embryonic stem-cell research -- positions that are anathema to traditional Catholic teachings.

[Gay State Conservative]

No “common ground”,Hussein.Any more than you would seek “common ground” on “returning America’s wealth to its rightful owners”.

[OneWingedShark]

Common ground: Reanimating the corpses of the dead infants into zombies... that’s not the future I was hoping for, or the change I wanted. Welcome to the zombie invasion.

[topher]

South Bend, Indiana -- home to:

Fighting Irish< Baby Killers

[keats5]

Would he have supported common ground during the slavery debate?

[Kid Shelleen]

I thought all this was above his pay grade?

[exist]

Obama: Look, I support infanticide, you don’t. Let’s meet in the middle and agree that late term abortions are just dandy.

[rodguy911]

Religion is basically inconsistent with hardcore commies so infiltration is necessary.

[lilylangtree]

Ah, yes, the self-anointed messiah speaks again with mainstream media fawning and giving out his word.

[muawiyah]

The pro-abortion crowd are certifiably mad. When we think of them as murderers there's really no common ground of any kind.

For example, if Obama and company were wandering about stabbing old ladies to death in the parks and taking their purses, what would be a compromise position? Perhaps we might let them take the purses as the old ladies come into the park? Or, maybe we could let them get away with stabbing only half the old ladies.

Just doesn't happen.

At the moment they have all the guns. When that's gone we must be prepared to act swiftly to clear our society of these monsters.

[FreedBird]

He wants to ruin the Catholic Schools.

[mainepatsfan]

To Obama the old story about splitting the baby in half is a reasonable compromise.

[muawiyah]

Notre Dame is a private charitable trust and it is NOT located inside South Bend’s corporate limit.

[pointsal]

Notre Shame University

[rodguy911]

Great post.

Zero's agenda is spoiled if we keep our eye on the ball. The main proponent of his agenda is he to destroy the country by bankrupting us. We are well on the way and he knows it. That is why diversion is ever so important and we get little doses weekly.

[tobyhill]

yes and while we're at all this “common ground” stuff, we should just go ahead and agree that after-birth abortions are acceptable since some people will just do it anyway. /sarc

[oldenuff2no]

Common ground on the murder of children????
How is that possible???

[Iron Munro]

It looks like the several thousand graduating today who celebrated THE ONE haven't learned much in the last four years.

[mad_as_he$$]

Hey Opie there is no common ground between you and I. We are at opposite ends on everything. Call me the radical though.

[Mad Dawg]

Just as Douglas called for common ground on Slavery: If you don't believe in slavery, don't own one. Just keep your laws off my farm, business, property, whatever.

Should slavery be safe, legal, and rare? Medium rare? Well done?