Distressed that Obama Flap Will Overshadow Graduation Day: A Notre Dame Mom's View
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
I've talked to Catholics on both sides of the Obama at Notre Dame debate who are distraught over the controversy overshadowing Graduation Day for the school's class of 2009. Here's a poignant comment posted by a Notre Dame mom:
My daughter is a freshman at Notre Dame. I am concerned with the way "outsiders" have hijacked this year's graduation to promote their own political agenda and how the media have been falsely led to believe that this protest is being supported by the students/alumni who attend(ed) there. The majority of these students voted for President Obama and are outraged that these pro-life groups and fanatical Catholic groups are trying to speak for them. These kids are amazing—intelligent and open-minded and embarrassed that the country thinks "This is ND."
...This is their graduation—President Obama is the speaker they want, and they are fed up with the media reports and the outside fringe groups who are using the ND logo illegally and have no affiliation with the university saying this protest is fueled by the students and alumni. It is not. The kids are so excited about having their president come to their campus, and they need to have their voices heard. The 80,000 signatures on the protest are not from the Notre Dame community—it is "outsiders" using this as a political forum to push their agenda—they are hijacking the kids' graduation to do it, and it would be great if the media could see this and report it from their point of view and shame these others into using their right to protest in a more proper forum than a graduation.
There are plenty of other folks who blame Notre Dame—as opposed to outside conservative groups—for setting off the controversy. They say that the president never should have been invited. And it's also not fair to dismiss opposition to Obama's appearance as a strictly off-campus phenomenon.
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ND and Obama
just go to http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/#mark, this guy said it all
Obama the Fraud in Chief
It seems to me that all those who are looking at this as some kind of "honor" ought to take into consideration that BUSH tried to save babies by banning partial birth AB and he did do a lot of things wrong, granted, but he did not go into office to overturn all the stupid legislation of the goof-ball Clintonista passed either. He let some of BC's decisions stand even though they were bad news for Americans. Now we have a (can't call him that) man in the WH who has put known criminals into staff positions that will TRY to strip us of our freedoms and damn our children and grand-children to a lifetime of debt for what? HIS buddies that's who! Come one people don't you recognize a communist when you smell one? Is your nose that stuffed up with BS from BO? He is a criminal for pitty sakes and from Chicago of all places. MAN oh MAN what a bunch of hand-wringing liberals we have in high places who can't stand up and say NO to this narcisstic-in-grief. Yukky is all I have to say about BO. He mades me sick to my stomach with his nostril-flared photos filling up the airwaves and the internet. What a joke his Adm is! CRIMINALS ALL! I agree with those who think he needs to be driven out of town on a rail or better yet tarred and feathered! HE IS A COMMIE RAT! A MUSLIM sympathizer and a baby-killer. Get it right folks or live in slavery from now on.
Comrade Obama
Comrade Obama is a joke. He shouldn't be giving a commencement address at ANY school, let alone be the president of our country. I say good for these protesting students. If it were my school I would protest, too. Enough with the anti-American bleeding hearts already. After all, liberalism is a sickness and it's about time someone said something about it.
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