The crowds have now gone from what must had to have been the most publicized commencement ceremonies in the storied history of the University of Notre Dame.

The graduates are now off to pursue their careers or to a summer break prior to further schooling as their parents’ checkbooks breathe a sigh of relief from tuition payments.

However, the dust hasn’t come close to settling on the issues that clouded what should have otherwise been a sparkling, cloudless spring day.

Dust has a way of settling eventually and has already begun to besprinkle the Catholic plate, in unsettling ways.

Dusty plates may be an image that germaphobes find disquieting but it works in this instance. If that image is suggestive of dirt, all the better. Notre Dame’s Catholic plate became appreciably dirtier last Sunday.

First Place in the Dirtiest Catholic Plate Award for the second week of May 2009 is hereby conferred on the President of Notre Dame and on that formerly-Catholic institution.

The reasons are many for that dusty dirt: for inviting an abortionist to deliver this year’s commencement address, for granting him an honorary award, and for the failure of the 12,000 in the audience to rise up en masse during the graduation ceremony and quietly exit in graphic protest.

A fine public university, Arizona State, had previously shown a greater sense of institutional integrity by inviting the same guest to speak at its commencement but refusing to confer unearned honors on said guest.

That guest jested over the ASU rebuke and still was unworthy of being so honored by May 17th but Notre Dame had no moral qualms over granting him a Doctor of Laws honorary degree.

Apparently, the lure of prestige and a similar ideology superseded all other concerns for Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins who gleefully escorted his commencement guest into the Joyce Center, lauded his guest, and all but gushed over the reciprocated laudatory remarks.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

There were heroes in South Bend last Sunday,. . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)

http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-master-of-misdirection.html

What We have in Obama is a rebirth of Rev, Wright’s hate filled words cleaned up with smoother words but with the same due course ansd intentions we have heard over and over .
Along with Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals and Y. Lenin Communist Manifesto .
Think not ? Read them both and again look at the Video’s of Rev Wrights’s preaching and you will be scared the B Jesus out of guaranteed .
Those are obviously Obama’ three play books for America’s sad future .
Obama obviously deeply believes you made the Poor Richer by making the rich poorer .
Well guess what we have a modern day example of that greatly failing .
In the late 60.s and early 70’s The Unions took over 22 different Iron , Sheet Medal long running plants in Va , W.VA and Pa .
Within 6 Years they all failed terribly even with Govt, assistance and there was more feuding between them than the Hat-fields and the McCoy’s .
You will notice there are no Union Wal Marts even though the Unions have Billions in the war chest to compete with Wal Mart .
Yeah Right , Wal Mart would run the Unions out of town quicker than Union people could shop for far better values and prices at WAL Mart !
That is why Obama’s Unions want to Unionize Wal Mart ..Duh !
Enough said !

Obama’s speeches are written by 27 year old John Favreau. And here we thought Obama is a wet-behind-the-ears kind of guy. Beyond words..

It might help to think of President Obama as The Backwards Man:

http://trackacrat.com/2009/05/14/barack-obama-the-backwards-man/

“Surely when the inevitable recession arrives, even the illiterate, uneducated majority of the liberal left will finally realize what we’re facing.”

Nope. The Obamatrons will never wake up.

This country, as a good friend of mine likes to say, “Is headed down the shitter.”

Sadly, all we can do is watch in horror, with a huge dose of amazement thrown in.