Obama: We Need to Stop Demonizing Others May 18 2009
We need to find common ground, and not attack each other, and all that jazz:
Plouffe: Foes ’swiftboating’ health care
Obama campaign adviser David Plouffe sent a fundraising appeal to supporters Saturday, calling for donations to stop the “swiftboating” of health care.
So according to one of Obama’s cronies, Obama opponents are swiftboating health care! That’s right; the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth continue to be smeared by Democrats even now, over four years since they were last involved in politics. And since by “swiftboat” Democrats mean, roughly, “unfairly attacking” or “attempting to destroy with lies”, this means that Obama’s crony is accusing those of us who disagree with Obama’s health care plan of making dishonest arguments in an attempt to destroy health care.
Meanwhile, some apostate nightmare who seems to think that she should be allowed to be the president of a Catholic school thought that Obama’s call for an end to demonizing opponents was so wonderful that she decided to demonize all of the pro-life Notre Dame students who refused to participate in the glorification of the most pro-abortion and most anti-Catholic president of all time:
Catholic college president: Obama protesters at ND were “religious vigilantes”
Speaking on Trinity’s campus in Northeast Washington, McGuire said that “a half-century of progress for Catholic higher education is at risk of slipping back into those insular, parochial pre-Vatican II days” when academic freedom was not valued within the Catholic Church.
“The real scandal at Notre Dame today is not that the president of the United States is speaking at commencement,” McGuire said. “The real scandal is the misappropriation of sacred teachings for political ends. The real scandal is the spectacle of ostensibly Catholic mobs camping out at Notre Dame for the specific purpose of disrupting the commencement address of the nation’s first African American president. This ugly spectacle is an embarrassment to all Catholics. The face that Catholicism shows to our new president should be one marked with the sign of peace, not distorted in the snarl of hatred.”
McGuire continued, “The religious vigilantism apparent in the Notre Dame controversy arises from organizations that have no official standing with the church, but who are successful in gaining media coverage as if they were speaking for Catholicism. . . . They have established themselves as uber-guardians of a belief system we can hardly recognize. Theirs is a narrow faith devoted almost exclusively to one issue. They defend the rights of the unborn but have no charity toward the living. They mock social justice as a liberal mythology.”
So unless I missed any of her insane personal attacks, according to this woman, principled pro-lifers are anti-progress, anti-academic freedom, politically-motivated, racist, hateful, falsely Catholic, uncharitable criminals.
I sure am glad that she listened to Obama so intently when he asked us to stop demonizing each other.
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