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    AmP Countdown: Time left to demand that Congress make health care reform pro-life: 2009-11-07 18:00:00 GMT-05:00


    Friday, May 15, 2009

    Open thread: What will Obama say at Notre Dame?

    Tom McFeely is trying to get a make an educated guess based on how Obama handled his first commencement speech of the season at Arizon State University:

    During his speech, the president joked about the controversy that erupted there over the secular college’s decision not to grant him an honorary degree, on the grounds that he had yet to accomplish enough as president to warrant that honor.

    “I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket,” he said, referring to the school’s basketball team, CNN reported. “It won’t happen again.”

    Said Obama, “President [Michael] Crow and the board of regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.” (NCRegister)

    McFeely also notes this monumental irony about ASU's choice to not grant an honorary degree:
    "ASU declined to grant Obama the honor of an honorary degree on the grounds he hasn’t done enough to earn one, whereas Notre Dame is conferring the identical honor even though Obama has done far more than enough, through his promotion of abortion, to disqualify himself from ever receiving such an honors from an authentically Catholic institution."
    Headline Bistro also analyzes how Obama attempted to use the stress of the ASU situation in his favor:

    "Not only did the president address that head on, but he wove it into his advice for the graduates – “No matter how much you’ve done, how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to learn, always more to achieve,” he said. “You too cannot rest on your laurels … your own body of work is also yet to come.”

    Will Obama do similarly at Notre Dame? With major newspapers now joining the bandwagon and printing stories on the Notre Dame-abortion-Catholic Church drama, the lack of even an allusion to the debate would be just as obvious as an actual statement during his address on his support for abortion."

    Well, ladies and gentleman, it's about time to place your final bets. Commencement is, after all, in 2 days.

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