BHO and Notre Dame: his use (and abuse) of the school and Catholics

In todays WSJ Bill McGurn comments on BHO's invitation and commencement address at Notre Dame. As with all his activity, the purpose was to create a false image for the masses, and it works with the cooperation of Rev. John Jenkins. A couple of excerpts:


"In a letter to Notre Dame's Class of 2009, the university's president, the Rev. John Jenkins, stated that the honors for Mr. Obama do not indicate any "ambiguity" about Notre Dame's commitment to Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life. The reality is that it was this ambiguity that the White House was counting on; this ambiguity that was furthered by the adoring reaction to Mr. Obama's visit; and this ambiguity that disheartens those working for an America that respects the dignity of life inside the womb. ...

In the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, there is a wonderful photograph of Father Ted Hesburgh -- then Notre Dame president -- linking hands with Martin Luther King Jr. at a 1964 civil-rights rally at Chicago's Soldier Field. Today, nearly four decades and 50 million abortions after Roe v. Wade, there is no photograph of similar prominence of any Notre Dame president taking a lead at any of the annual marches for life.

Father Jenkins is right: That's not ambiguity. That's a statement."


A statement from a source that will be misconstrued as from the Catholic Church when, of course, it is not. Manipulation at its finest!