OK, but consider this. Pro-abortion presidential candidates have been invited to this dinner for decades. It's a long tradition of having both presidential candidates show up and make a speech. Snubbing Obama on this will invite accusations of singling him out, and that singling out will be assumed to be motivated by racism. Preposterous in the context of the work of the Church, of course, but the media will beat that drum for several days. Nothing like using one of their favorite weapons to bash one of their favorite targets.
Better to have both Obama and Romney at the dinner, and allow Romney to upstage Obama by mentioning the rights of the unborn in a room full of Catholics. It was beautiful to watch the extended applause when George W. Bush did that in 2000, and left Al Gore to just stare at the table in front of him.
#1 -- there's more evil to Obamalamadingdong than his abortion stance -- most rank-n-file pewsitters understand this, even if the polled "catholics" don't
#2 -- the Church is legally (in court) against Obamalamadingdong's administration, IINM....
#3 -- the media will always be against the Church and in favor of whatever Demoncrat is anti-Catholic
#4 -- the bishops had Catholics praying for religious freedom, only to follow it up with.... Dolan's invite? Who is more important --- the MEDIA??? or pew-sitting Catholics?!?!?!
#5 -- Is the Church promoting Romney as the anti-abortion candidate? Really? REALLY?????????