Obama Commencement Speech at Notre Dame Echoed JFK's at American University

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It was most impressive a shrewd assessment of what the young would like to hear appealing strongly to thair idealism like a sugar coated sweet but beneath that sweetness was and is moral poison.
He urged the young to protect God's creation and implied that fair minded words and a willingness to bridge cultural divide were what was needed to overcome the big problems facing society but abortion destrys the greatest aspect og God's creation the human person.
Now in discussing the future of Guantanamo inmates he says we will need new terminology just as we did to enable the passage of abortion laws blatantly admitting that the manipulation of language was one of the tactics used to get abortion laws passed Doesn't this ring any bells? At what other period in history was language used to rob a part of the human family of their legislative rights and to rob them of their citizenship?
President Obama is without doubt a talented, charming and charismatic young man but he is wrong about abortion Just as there was no middle ground in regard to slavery there is no middle ground in regard to abortion.

Simplicity 1:20AM May 28, 2009

Obama is not responsible for the chaos of the Catholic Church - but he is for his own immoral positions.
Abortion - the killing of the unborn - for the sake of personal convenience, after acting irresponsibly, can never be anything but wrong. Only the immoral, intellectually dishonest could pretend otherwise.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:59PM May 21, 2009

Pretty thin comparison here. To have our favorite JR Senator who condones and Federally supports the murder of un-born Americans while declaring throwing water in a Terrorists face as illegal "torture" renders his opinion worthless in the eyes of many Americans.
Stand by your convictions or stand for nothing.
Can't have it both ways.

Chris Petty of GA 8:08PM May 20, 2009

to get on the same side and actually fight the "culture war" than to "dial back the rhetoric".
If you want less abortions, the messages to men to NOT CAUSE THEM are what is required, together with Plan-B (the morning-after pill) stocked on every store's shelf for hassle-free purchase by any girl of any age.
As for our porn-saturated culture, the war is not between liberals and conservatives. The war is concerned people against corporations that are disseminating it---even to your tweens on their cell phones. Hello?

Muser of NM 4:45PM May 20, 2009