Posted on 05/17/2009 4:21:13 PM PDT by 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.
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Common ground?
Well, ask this question, in an opinion poll:
“Do you support taxpayer funding of minor children who cross state lines to have a late term abortion without parental knowledge or consent?”
I GUARANTEE that you will get a resounding “KNOW” answer to that question, in every Congressional District in the Country.
In fact, in most areas of the country, the “KNOW” vote will be well above the 70% range!
If you ask the right questions, based on ACTUAL LEGISLATION, the public has been “PROLIFE” on that legislation ever since Roe V Wade!
How’s this for common ground - all abortions are legal, as long as an adult LIB is killed along with the baby.
Whatever else you can say about this worthless POS, he sure knows how to rub his enemy’s nose in excrement.
When people don’t believe in the concepts of right and wrong or good and evil then this is the type of nonsense they put forth. It’s like asking the Jews and Nazis to find some common ground.
If You pour (muddy) dirty water....
Into a clean clear pitcher of clean water...
YOU GET MORE DIRTY WATER....no half-ass solutions.
Here’s a start on that common ground. Let’s make keeping and bearing arms as protected and universally recognized a right as the “right” to an abortion.
Cardinal George met with Obama to discuss this a couple of weeks ago, and he said that the creepy thing was that Obama kept insisting that he and Cdl George believed the same thing about abortion. Cdl George said that he had to firmly state several times that they did NOT share the same views.
He said that Obama will essentially say anything that he thinks will achieve his purpose and simply insists that he is agreeing and that there is really nothing to discuss, even though the other person’s views are not at all the same. I think that talking with him is probably like nailing jello to the wall.
“NO”
So, The Dear Leader thinks that I will compromise my core Christian belief that killing human babies is somehow negotiatble. He really just does not get it.
Well Freepers, let me try this and please excuse my shouting: YO, MARXIST LEADER AND PRESIDENTIAL USURPER ONADA, I BELIEVE ABORTION IS MURDER AND THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN OR SUPPORT IT ARE MURDERERS. THE DEPTH OF YOUR DEPRAVITY IS DEMONSTRATED BY YOUR VOTING DOWN LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PROTECT CHILDREN WHO SURVIVE ABORTION FROM BEING MURDERED AGAIN. DO YOU GET IT NOW”?
He never axed for common ground for Homosexual Marriage and Miss California. Common ground means give up our morals and agree w/him.
Pray for America and the Unborn
“He wants to ruin the Catholic Schools.”
He wants to RUN the Catholic Schools.
NO of course
I first wrote:
DO you “Know” the answer”
then did not edit well. SORRY
Many of these so-called “enlightened” students listen to this clap trap and don’t have the smarts to realize it’s just more Zero hyperbole. There is no such thing as compromising with evil. He has no intention of trying to find “common ground”.
He is just pitiful.
Some things are just plain EVIL.
Some ideas originate from the DEVIL.
Obama is WRONG, EVIL and ORIGINATES from the DEVIL.
I will not seek common ground with him. I will protect my ground from him.
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