Hawaii Conservative

Here are Obama’s remarks on abortion from his Notre Dame commencement address:

As I considered the controversy surrounding my visit here, I was reminded of an encounter I had during my Senate campaign, one that I describe in a book I wrote called The Audacity of Hope.  A few days after I won the Democratic nomination, I received an email from a doctor who told me that while he voted for me in the primary, he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me in the general election.  He described himself as a Christian who was strongly pro-life, but that’s not what was preventing him from voting for me.

What bothered the doctor was an entry that my campaign staff had posted on my website – an entry that said I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.”  The doctor said that he had assumed I was a reasonable person, but that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable.  He wrote, “I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.”

Fair-minded words.

After I read the doctor’s letter, I wrote back to him and thanked him.  I didn’t change my position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my website.  And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me.  Because when we do that – when we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think like we do or believe what we do – that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.

That’s when we begin to say, “Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions.

So let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term.  Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in clear ethics and sound science, as well as respect for the equality of women.”

Understand – I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away.  No matter how much we may want to fudge it – indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory – the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable.  Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction.  But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.

Open hearts.  Open minds.  Fair-minded words.

It’s a way of life that has always been the Notre Dame tradition.  Father Hesburgh has long spoken of this institution as both a lighthouse and a crossroads.  The lighthouse that stands apart, shining with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition, while the crossroads is where “…differences of culture and religion and conviction can co-exist with friendship, civility, hospitality, and especially love.”  And I want to join him and Father Jenkins in saying how inspired I am by the maturity and responsibility with which this class has approached the debate surrounding today’s ceremony.

Civil dialog maybe, but ‘fair minded words?’ Sorry, the phrase is inherently self-contradictory when the most affected party has no say at all in the matter of his or her own death.

And as far as co-existing in friendship with with people who choose for their own convenience to murder unborn children, sorry again. I’ll pass.

The only thing I agree with in BK’s bullshit speech is his statement, “..the views of the two camps are irreconcilable.” Yes, and may we pro-lifers remain impolitely and harshly unreconciled to state sanctioned murder as long as Roe v. Wade is the law of the land.

More, please.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
FOXNews (AP)

House Dems Scale Back Global Warming Plans

House Dems have to lower targets for renewable energy and require a smaller reduction by 2020 in the emissions blamed for global warming.

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders are scaling back their plans to cut the gases blamed for global warming and to transition the country to cleaner sources of energy.

Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Henry Waxman of California announced Tuesday the outlines of a deal that they said would ensure the legislation will please both environmental and industry groups and have the support of moderate Democrats on the House Energy Committee.

But to do so, they had to lower targets for renewable energy and require a smaller reduction by 2020 in the emissions blamed for global warming…..

What’s that sound? Oh…just the treasury presses running overtime to print the money we need to pay for President Pork’s insane spending orgy.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

FOXNews (AP)

Government Runs Deficit in April For First Time Since 1983

The Treasury Department said the deficit for April was $20.9 billion, a sharp contrast from the surplus of $159.3 billion in the same month last year.

WASHINGTON — The federal government ran a deficit in the month of April for the first time in 26 years, pushing the red ink so far this budget year to a record $802.3 billion.

The Treasury Department said Tuesday the deficit for April was $20.9 billion, a sharp contrast from the surplus of $159.3 billion in the same month last year. It also was slightly more than the $20 billion deficit economists had expected…..

Must be true.

Doctors: High Heels Boost Health, Sex Life

Thursday, May 07, 2009

FOXNews (AP)

Italian researchers found women who wear a heel of one to two inches may have more fun between the sheets.

We’ve heard how damaging stilettos can be to feet, but now experts are warning that flat shoes are the ones to watch out for. In fact, some foot doctors are even urging people to strap on sexy heels to keep their feet healthy…..

They work for me!

Hillary must have told him what to say.

Joe Biden: Israel must seek two-state solution
David S. Cloud
POLITICO.com

He (Smokin’ Joe) received strong applause from the audience of several thousand when he said that Israel had the right “to make its own judgment about what it needs to do to defend itself.” Though Biden was not specific about what he meant, Israel has long been thought to be considering a military strike of its own on Iran’s nuclear sites.

A little something for you feminists out there who thought Iran was a backward country:

Man Found Guilty of Adultery Stoned to Death in Iran

Sky News
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

A man found guilty of adultery has been stoned to death in Iran in spite of a ban on the practice.

Reports said the victim was a 30-year-old government employee identified as “V,” although he was named on some Web sites as Vali Azad.

The execution is said to have taken place in a prison in the northern city of Rasht on March 5.

A spokesman for Iran’s judiciary said the woman involved in the case has “repented and so has not been stoned…..”

Those people just aren’t happy unless they’re killing somebody for something, are they?

No doubt about it, those mindless MSNBC sycophants give great Liberal head. Strange, though, that MSNBC has half the number of viewers it did a year ago. They all went to FoxNews, where there is reasonable expectation of truth in reporting.

MSNBC and CNN are probably just too stoned to notice, in their orgasmic Obama rapture, that nobody takes them very seriously anymore.

Obama official Kareem Dale confirms White House’s love for MSNBC

Los Angeles Times Blog
Top of the Ticket
May 4, 2009

For some inexplicable reason having to do with who knows what, a widespread impression has grown among many politics fans that MSNBC and its crowd of talkers — including Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews, Norah “The GOP Is Doomed to Die” O’Donnell and Ed “It’s Time to Grind Them Into the Ground” Schultz — are somewhat in favor of President Obama.

Well, actually in complete love with the Great Change Agent…..

Welcome to the AEN Society, moron.

Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research

FOXNews.com
Monday, May 04, 2009

On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Arlen Specter suggests that one of the reasons he left the GOP was because it did not share his interest in funding medical research.

Jack Kemp would still be alive if the federal government had done a better job funding cancer research, Sen. Arlen Specter said Sunday, one day after Kemp, the 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee and former congressman, died of cancer.

The Pennsylvania senator, who last week switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, made the claim on two Sunday shows….

This is the first thing Romney has said that really angered me. Dismissing Gov. Palin out of hand with his arrogant, sexist remarks only shows that he is as numb as the Boy King when it comes to understanding the hearts and minds of conservative Americans.

Sarah Palin is a good and decent person, who took on Romney’s “influential (albeit corrupt) Republicans” in her heroic bid to be Governor of Alaska, and kicked their asses.

Thousands of ordinary folks love Sarah Palin for her dedication, honesty and conservative values. I am one of them.

Sarah is one of our own, for the God’s sake, Mitt. After the terrible hack job the liberal mainstream media did on her and her family, how can you, a Republican, throw in with them?

You should be ashamed of yourself.

GOP leaders give Palin cold shoulder
Jonathan Martin
Politico
Sunday, May 3, 2009

In the latest instance of a high-profile member taking a passing swipe at the party’s 2008 vice-presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney jokingly dismissed Sarah Palin’s inclusion on TIME’s list of influential people in an interview broadcast Sunday.

He asked, was “the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?”

Romney, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union was replying to a question from moderator John King on whether TIME’s inclusion of Palin and talk show host Rush Limbaugh on their list of “The World’s Most Influential People” was good or bad for the Republican Party.

Romney, who has not ruled out another White House bid, said he wanted more influential Republicans on the list before adding pointedly: “I think there are a lot more influential Republicans than that would suggest.”

“But was that the issue on the most beautiful people or the most influential people?” he continued. “I’m not sure. If it’s the most beautiful, I understand. We’re not real cute.”

Asked about Romney’s comment, Palin didn’t respond to the reference to her appearance.

“I think there are 100 influential Republicans alone who have tremendous ideas and I hope that we can all work together to accomplish what we believe is best for America,” Palin said through a spokeswoman….