It's another ironic proof that Notre Dame assisted President Obama in a strategy of skilled equivocation: saying one thing and doing another.
In his Notre Dame speech, Obama endorsed "sensible conscience clauses"--- yet his HHS has abandoned their enforcement of the conscience clauses already passed by Congress (the Church Amendments, Coats Amendment, and the Hyde/Weldon Amendment). Isn't it "sensible" to enforce the conscience measures our elected representatives have approved over the past 35 years? What's wrong here?
In his Notre Dame speech, Obama said we must respect others' convictions, whether they are for or against abortion: yet he will compel pro-life citizens to become accomplices to abortion, by requiring us to finance, through our tax dollars, the very thing we find morally intolerable.
We respect Obama, and he expands programs to do deliberate harm to our youngest family members. He respects us, and he makes us pay for it. What's wrong here?
Again in his Notre Dame speech, Obama said opponents of embryonic stem cell research may be upholding 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."
He didn't mention that is is adult stem cells which, in laboratory trials involving animals, have shown repeated success at reversing diabetes, and have even produced functioning, insulin-producing islet cells in humans, while embryonic stem cells have shown no such success.
Odd omission, that.
At Notre Dame, Obama used one of the world's most prestigious Catholic podiums to beam and nod and broadcast his factually deficient arguments, and nobody had an equivalent opportunity to supply the missing information. This is "dialog"? This is "engagement with challenging ideas"?
What's wrong here? What's wrong is the deft deflection of criticism without the honest back-and-forth of dialog, robust rebuttal, or exposure to countervailing facts.
Obama succeeded in presenting an amiable visual image, quite empty of argument. And that's just the way he wants it.
That is all he is, an empty suit for the guilt ridden, American Idol, vacuous and Godless masses. Well actually, I don't believe that is all he is - he is in fact EVIL incarnate.
I suspect the majority of those who watched the evening news versions of the ND travesty came away with a “See, Obama is a nice guy and Catholics understand that now” impression.
it is his standard M.O., which makes anyone who disagrees look to be unreasonable. it is his GIFT....