Monday, May 18, 2009

A Wonderful Day for Notre Dame


Full text and video of the President's outstanding speech at Notre Dame:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/17/obama-notre-dame-speech-f_n_204387.html

Time magazine on the Pope's cold shoulder to the Obama-haters:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1898756,00.html

I watched the address on CSPAN. It was tremendously moving, causing me to get teary-eyed. The faculty, students and assembly could not have been more enthusiastic about the President and Father Jenkins remarks didn't shy from taking on his critics. It was great to see Father Ted as well.

The handful of hecklers did nothing but show themselves to be the cranks that they are.

10 comments:

martin m said...

I gotta admit, Katie, Obama hit that one out of the park. It was one of his best speeches ever.

phlojd said...

Meanwhile, a few of the the cranks over at the American Papist are actually arguing in behalf of a violent revolution in the US. And the vast majority of 'em don't even object or question such unbalanced, treasonous talk.

Kurt said...

Sadly, actions against the Constitution, democracy, and even the President's safety are the rational extentions to much of their rhetoric (though making rational extentions of the thinking of irrational people might be a mistake).

They are a scary bunch.

ttocs said...

Please define catholic for me, I spell it hypocrite, please say a prayer after taking communion, thats if any of you go to church

oskar said...

Interesting to note the new connections between the Witherspoon Institute, the American Principles Project and the American Papist.

oskar said...

From Sourcewatch, we also find one of the main characters involved with the American Principles Project is: Francis P. Cannon, better known as Frank Cannon, was until 1999 Secretary at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI). He worked from 1988 to 1998 as managing director of the economic and political forecasting firm, Lehrman Bell Mueller Cannon, Inc. which he started by Lewis Lehrman, Jeffrey Bell, and John Mueller.

Frank Cannon was national campaign manager and finance director in the 'Gary Bauer for President 2000' campaign.

Jeffrey Bell and Frank Cannon are still active as principals of Capital City Partners, a Washington consulting firm.

oskar said...

And Gary Bauer:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gary_Bauer

oskar said...

And the American Values group:

http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/

Anonymous said...

Katherine, do you support Obama's stance on abortion? If not, why are you 'for' him?

Katherine said...

For the answer to your question, read the posts on this blog.