Obama Quietly Mending Our Cultural Divide (Bwahahahahah or Barf alert!!!)

IBD Editorial ^ | March 5, 2009 | E.J> Dionne Jr.

[Kaslin]

Will ending the culture wars be as difficult as repairing a broken economy?

If President Obama's primary task is to restore economic growth, he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the nation's divisions around religious and moral questions.

That venture, which has its roots in a 2006 speech that paid tribute to the political role of religious Americans, bore fruit in last year's election. Obama increased the Democratic share of the vote among Roman Catholics and younger evangelical Christians.

Since assuming the presidency, he has pressed this effort through persistent calls to personal and family responsibility, a pledge to continue social service partnerships between government and faith-based groups, and a promise to pursue policies to reduce the number of abortions.

But two of Obama's recent decisions underscored how brokering cultural peace will keep presenting him with ticklish challenges.

Last Friday, his administration signaled that it would alter the sweeping rules adopted at the end of the Bush administration allowing health care workers to decline to participate in actions that violate their moral or religious beliefs.

Such conscience protections have long applied to doctors, nurses and others who refuse to play any role in an abortion, and the administration has indicated it will maintain these safeguards. But it is likely to narrow the Bush regulation significantly so it doesn't get in the way of family planning services and fertility treatments.

[Da Coyote]

Mending? Methinks there’s good money to be made (much more than on the Obamaloon crashing stock market) in taking bets on when the civil war will start.

[Richard Axtell]

I am sorry I ever gave this guy even the slightest credit for knowing what is going on. He is an absolute idiot.

[kik5150]

Instigating class warfare...

[a fool in paradise]

Will ending the culture wars be as difficult as repairing a broken economy? If President Obama's primary task is to restore economic growth, he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the nation's divisions around religious and moral questions.

Making American taxypayers fund abortions is no way to "mend" the culture war.

[a fool in paradise]

PING

“If President Obama’s primary task is to restore economic growth, he has also been waging a quiet, long-term campaign to ease the nation’s divisions around religious and moral questions.”

[Trod Upon]

Let me go on record as saying that I am now for the forceful ejection from America of anyone who voted for Zero.

[meyer]

Shi.... This idiot is setting race relations back 40 years.

[a fool in paradise]

That venture, which has its roots in a 2006 speech that paid tribute to the political role of religious Americans

Something they referred to as "closing the God gap" between the election results. You know, reach out to those who "cling to religion" (and persuade them to change their views to fit The Party).

[encm(ss)]

E.J. Dionne, Jr. On the FAR Left.

[EyeGuy]

Sure thing.

Accelerating the ALREADY decades long theft of money from whites to hand over to blacks, is a sure cure for that nasty ol’ “cultural divide”.

[Flycatcher]

I am sorry I ever gave this guy even the slightest credit for knowing what is going on. He is an absolute idiot.

The author is E. J. Dionne, and, yes, he is an absolute idiot. Apparently he believes that Obama's appointment of Kathleen Sebelius to HHS Secretary will help reduce abortions.

Actually he's one step above absolute idiot -- whatever that is.

[Canedawg]

Complete fiction, and i will not suspend disbelief.

[clamper1797]

What’s this guy smoking ? ...

[Robert A Cook PE]

It would be nice if it were only 40 years. Try 1920’s.

[SAJ]

I'm curious. Exactly WHICH hallucinogens does Mr. Dionne take?

Apparently, he has done so on a longstanding basis.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t think E.J. has been out of his office for a few years.

[TADSLOS]

I am sorry I ever gave this guy even the slightest credit for knowing what is going on. He is an absolute idiot.

Yes, if you filter his actions through a conservative lens. No, if you do the same through a marxist-socialist lens. In fact, he's brilliant when viewed that way. He is cultivating fear, panic and chaos on a daily basis while maintaining a cult like personality- making crisis after crisis out of whole cloth then using those crisis as a means to an end. This takes a deliberate and cunning mind. No, he's not an idiot, but he is a dangerous marxist with plenty of marxist ties.

[Clint Williams]

Methinks there’s good money to be made (much more than on the Obamaloon crashing stock market) in taking bets on when the civil war will start.

Place all my bets on "Never."

[madprof98]

The president has cast his effort to reduce polarization around moral questions as a search for "common ground." Many of the religious liberals the new president has mobilized say the minimum requirements for this quest include maintaining the strong conscience protections on abortion for health professionals and guarantees that federal money not be used to pay for abortions.

These "minimum requirements" will disappear as soon as Soros and company slip them a few more bucks. What crud these people are!