[Lorianne]

Obama failed to address religious people who oppose abortion on NON-religious grounds and atheists and agnostics who oppose abortion. But so did the Notre Dame dissenters and the pro-abortion lobby.

By making the issue completely about religion a great deal of ‘common ground’ was lost by all sides.

[BIGLOOK]

The University of Hawaii at Hilo will feature one of the biggest names of the Internet era when Yahoo! Inc. co-founder and part-time Hawaii resident Jerry Yang delivers the keynote address at spring commencement, scheduled for Saturday, May 16, at 9:00 a.m. at Edith Kanaka`ole Stadium

I only heard parts of Jerry Yang's keynote address to the graduating class but what I heard was uplifting, challenging and positive.....and not one bit of it concerned abortion, political or religious divides or any of the bs that I'd heard from Obama Saturday at Notre Dame.

Yang urged the grads to use their education and talents to create new solutions to succeed, that all things are possible even in times of recession and that creativity would win the day. He offered inspiration and unity of purpose at a small college while Obama speechified on diversity of opinions over a subject that never should have been material for a graduation keynote speech, of community service to pay a debt for the privilege of higher education as if the achievers owed their success to those who never tried.

It's a sad day when a foreign born entrepreneur lauds achievement at a small university and the president ignores it.

The students who sat out their own graduation ceremony at Notre Dame in protest did so righteously.