Why on Earth do conservative Republicans insist on continuing with this rhetoric of division and intolerance? Conservatives have taken a simple commencement address by President Barack Obama and now are working to use it as a cheap political weapon against him and to push their ultra-conservative views on abortion into the national spotlight.
Here is an excerpt from a Fox News column written by Ken Blackwell. Read some of the extremist rhetoric he is using about a president who has been in office a little over three months:
By Ken Blackwell
Fellow, Family Research Council/Former Vice President, Xavier UniversityMany are questioning why officials at the University of Notre Dame are inviting the most pro-abortion president in our history to receive an honorary doctorate of laws. Doesn’t this make a mockery of Notre Dame’s historic role as the premier Catholic university in America? Doesn’t this create a scandalfor the Catholic faithful as well as for the larger community of Americans who are not Catholic? Much of the fierce public debate has centered on why Notre Dame would extend such an honor. The divisions exposed by this invitation are deep and worrisome.
The divisions are created by men like Ken Blackwell who want to turn a commencement ceremony into a debate on abortion rights. The Ken Blackwells of the world are exploiting President Obama’s visit to the University of Notre Dame as a way of pushing their anti-abortion agenda. President Obama is there for the students of the University of Notre Dame and (at least to my knowledge), is not there to speak on the issue of abortion. Opportunists like Blackwell and Alan Keyes want to use this appearance by President Obama to try and jam a little deeper the wedge into the gap that exists between those who favor abortion rights and those who are opposed to abortion rights.
More from Blackwell:
I see another reason why President Obama is going to Notre Dame. He knows the truth of the maxim: divide and conquer. He has already succeeded in dividing the Evangelical community in America.Although most Evangelical Protestants, both black and white, are pro-life and pro-marriage, President Obama has been able to convince millions that he wants to limit abortions and uphold marriage as the union of one man and one woman. He has accomplished this feat while vigorously promoting pro-abortion and anti-marriage policies and personnel.
Talk about the politics of division. Ken Blackwell’s own words, throughout this column, are a clinic on the politics of division and intolerance.
Fox News:
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/05/14/blackwell_obama_notre_dame/
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