Posted by
OB Busch on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:24:17 PM
On Sunday May 17th President Obama appeared at Notre Dame to
address the graduating class. Traditionally these speeches are pep
talks to propel the graduates forward to their new life beyond the
confines of education. Obama also received an honorable degree.
In the weeks preceding this event Catholics all over the nation objected.
There were petitions. There were organized protest campaigns.
There was a statement by 14 Catholic Bishops ordering against Obama’s
appearance. All these objections were ignored as Notre Dame moved forward
with their plans.
With this backdrop one would think that the prudent thing to do would be
to give a ‘rah rah on to the future' type of speech. Not Barrack Obama.
He came to the center of Catholic education and talked about abortion.
He came to WARN Catholics about their abortion stance.
It’s the closing speech for a campaign started by Nancy Pelosi in 2008.
Let’s go back to August 2008 when Nancy Pelosi stated on a TV interview
that the issue of abortion was not settled in the Catholic Church.
Complete transcript here
The comment was answered by the Archbishop of Washington, who said
Pelosi was incorrect and the official catechism of the Catholic Church
on the matter was clear and unchangeable.
In February 2009 Pelosi flew to Rome to straighten out the pope on
the churches stance on abortion.
Complete article
“The Vatican says the pope lectured Pelosi about abortion and assisted
suicide. Pelosi says they talked about poverty and global warming --
and she showed him pictures of her grandchildren.
"His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural
moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from
conception to natural death," the Holy See said in a statement. Benedict
emphasized that "all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those
responsible for the common good of society" should work to create "a just
system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development."
The ball has been passed to Obama to confront the Catholic Church on its
stance on abortion. He took this Notre Dame opportunity to utter:
“When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think
precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that's when we
discover at least the possibility of common ground."
When a lefty with power like Barrack Obama says ‘common ground’ it means
HIS common ground. When the legislation starts restricting Catholic
hospitals, Catholic schools, and Catholic churches on which side will we
find the hiarchy of Notre Dame? On which side will we find these graduates?
The Camels nose is under the tent.
The argument by the lefties that we prosecuted the Japanese for
waterboarding is false. The Japanese in WW2 did waterboard our soldiers.
They also performed many illegal torturous acts on our soldiers for which
they were prosecuted. Waterboarding was an add-on charge.
An example would be if a man commits murder, runs from the police,
resists arrest, and assaults an officer. He would be charged for all of these,
but would be prosecuted for murder.
To say that the Japanese were prosecuted for waterboarding is like saying
the murderer in my example was sentenced to death for resisting arrest.