Posted on 05/18/2009 6:36:38 AM PDT by steve-b
Facing down protesters who didn't want him at Notre Dame, President Obama fought back not with harsh words but with the most devastating weapons in his political arsenal: a call for "open hearts," "open minds," "fair-minded words" and a search for "common ground."
There were many messages sent from South Bend. Obama's opponents seek to reignite the culture wars. He doesn't. They would reduce religious faith to a narrow set of issues. He refused to join them. They often see theological arguments as leading to certainty. He opted for humility.
He did all this without skirting the abortion question and without flinching from the "controversy surrounding my visit here." The thunderous and repeated applause that greeted Obama and the Rev. John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame's president who took enormous grief for asking him to appear, stood as a rebuke to those who said the president should not have been invited....
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well what would you expect from EJDionne anyway?
Simply put. Obama is as slick as the devil.
“Obama’s opponents seek to reignite the culture wars.”
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I believe there will come a day when Obama will stand before the Lord and hear the words, “I never knew you. Get away from me you worker of iniquity”.
The media Obama Love-fest at it’s worst. Obama’s actions againt the unborn speak far louder than any words.
Of course not, because he is just going to enact his extreme pro-abortion policies while defusing any opposition with a meaningless nice sounding word salad. And the sheeple, like the crowd at Notre Dame and its president, will lap it up.
Commie propaganda.
Remember, folks: One of the defining facts about a liberal is projection.
What ever a liberal accuses you of, rest assured that it's what he, himself, is doing.
The only common ground between Jews and Nazis was German soil.
Humans are things.
That the essence of it. Humans are fungible and ultimately disposable "assets". We are meat animals to be harvested by the slice.
This is why you've got the likes of Margaret Sanger and Dr. Peter Singer who have done their damnedest to move the goalposts when it comes to defining life and humanity. Singer, for example, has argued that infants up to 28 months old don't really have sufficient cognitive ability that defines them as human. So it's OK to 'terminate' them if the parent (or the State) so chooses. And ultimately, in liberal dreams, it’s the State who decides the definition of ‘sufficient’.
Who lives, who dies. That's the power they seek. They are all monsters, monsters from the deepest dark heart of our existence and history is replete with the outcomes and the evidence of their sick Utopian ideas: slaughter, mass murder and atrocity on a scale that beggars the imagination.
History also tells us what we must do to deal with them.
That distant thunder you hear is war. War is coming.
“He opted for humility....”
LOL!!!!!
As if
But he's not budging on any of his extremist positions -- is he?
President Obama fought back not with harsh words but with the most devastating weapons in his political arsenal: a call for "open hearts," "open minds," "fair-minded words" and a search for "common ground."
.....good thing obama's mother kept an open mind about giving birth to him.....just a few years later and she could have legally killed him in abortion and moved on with her life, unsaddled with a "mistake"....
“open hearts,” “open minds,” “fair-minded words” and a search for “common ground.”
These words mean nothing to him, because he’s in “I WON!” mode. The common ground he talks about is HIS turf.
freedom of the press, yeah right, complicitors of a socialist agenda.
How could anyone with a “heart” be pro-infanticide? That’s just twisted beyond belief!
How can even EJ be so stupid? “He did all this without skirting the abortion question...”
I wish EJ would tell me, then, how Obama justifies third term abortion, or partial birth abortion, or abortion after birth!
Obama COMPLETELY skirted the issue. His speech said, in essence, ‘If you oppose me on abortion, you are a name-calling extremist who doesn’t care about women. So instead, how about not opposing me - then you will be a calm, reflective person who seeks common ground to help others.’
If America is stupid enough to swallow this, then we deserve the TOTUS.
Sorry, B.O. You are now in the minority in your abortion views for this country.
As I have noted before, Cardinal George met with Obama a couple of weeks ago - and Obama blandly insisted that they shared the “same views” on abortion! The Cardinal had to tell him several times that their views were NOT the same at all.
Obama is oily and slick, and his words have no intrinsic meaning but mean whatever he says they mean at a given moment. He also lies even more easily than Bill Clinton.
nope
Where is the BARF alert?
Rushing out the door for more Pepto Bismol. Meantime, I wonder if this was offered as “news” or political opinion? Being the WaPo, one must ask.
“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war”
They always have it bass akwards.
Roe v wade “ignited the culture” war, and IT should be laid to rest.
Before Roe v Wade, abortion was not a nation-splitting issue; each state had it’s own abortion laws, some more restrictive than others.
New York state had the most liberal laws.
But that did not satisfy northeastern liberals.
They wanted, and demanded, that THE NATION have abortion laws as liberal as theirs.
Knowing they could not obtain that right from the people, they sought, and found judges who would dictate that mandate on everyone.
Were liberals, like Obama, not trying to keep the “culture war” alive, they’d agree that Roe v Wade should be put to rest and states again make their own decisions on abortion.
As usual, Obama has framed the question in a manner that avoids the issue, instead of confronting it.
The issue is not really abortion - the issue is the courts.
What’s next? “Common ground” on child molestation? Abortion is murder. You are either for infanticide or against it.
Yes it is, as noted in this line from yesterday's show:
Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in an admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes who are convinced that their son's or daughter's hardships can be relieved.
Note: He left out the word "embryonic" before stem cell research.
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance...baffle them with bull$***
GD leftists are using the government to force their worldview on everyone, replacing faith with government, replacing family with government, criminalizing speech based on religious views,
AND _WE_ are the ones reigniting the culture wars?
Does E.J. Dionne work for the First Thug? He doesn't? Could have fooled me.
question for Freepers: an ardent pro-life Catholic told me recently that Obama is on record as saying he believes that birth certificates for newborn babies should not be formalized until the child is 5 years old. For example, the medical team might see that a newborn, or even an older child, has serious defects requiring expensive medical interventions. Can this be documented? His position on the unsanctity of preborn life is bad enough, but I had never heard this.
That’s the way with liberals -
they aren’t satisfied with having their ideology apply to themselves,
they MUST have everyone, everywhere comply with their ideology.
I’m very glad I decided to skip breakfast.
To liberals, “common ground” on anything means “our way or the highway”. Barry assumes the sheeple will simply follow.
Margaret Sanger was EVIL.
Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger, gave 0bama the Margaret Sanger award.
That’s all we need to know to make an informed decision about him.
That's neither compromise nor reconciliation; its plain BS.
As expected the msm will play up O's appearance as bravery/humility/compassion/genius and ridicule those who took a principled stand.
O is none of the above.
Singer's ideas are all the Left needs to justify the most monstrous crimes against humanity. To hear the same stuff coming out Zero's mouth is chilling - because it means that the ideas that have animated history's worst mass murders now have a happy home in the White House. That distant thunder you hear is war. War is coming...
Again, I have seen no documented evidence that Obama himself has actually advocated this. Am merely passing on what was told to me by someone else. It does, however, fit with some of his other policy positions.
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