Notre Dame, Faith Reason & Truth, and Obama

Notre Dame erred in inviting the President to deliver its Commencement, and he, in turn, erred in accepting the invitation.  At least, insofar as Notre Dame considers itself a Catholic university.  Despite all of the press, it really is that simple, that cut and dried, that black and white.  Obama's abortion motives were equally effectively obfuscated by the media, his supporters, and him during the presidential campaign.  Many supporters, many of them Catholics, were hypnotized by his eloquently delivered plans to actually reduce the amount of abortions and unwanted pregnancies, pragmatist that he is, through his brilliance (exactly how, I never was clear on, but his supporters certainly bought into it!).
Oh, nevermind that he would do his best and move his quickest to remove any and all restrictions on any and all types of abortion and stem cell research; his policies would actually reduce the number of abortions!  You'll see!  And that part about now requiring medical personnel to perform duties that they hold as morally objectionable, namely abortion, among others?  Well, don't worry about that either - because his policies will reduce the number of abortions in this country!  And, by the way, did he forget to mention that not only would he facilitate any and all types of abortion in this country, but in others around the world as well?  Hey, folks, settle down:  it's all in the name of REDUCING the number of abortions performed around the world!
Notre Dame, you aren't the only one to be seduced by his charisma, his charm, his magnetism, his aura of being something that's somehow better than mere humanity.  You are, however, his most disappointing victim to date.  I would hope that you either offer your sincerest and heartfelt apologies and withdraw the invitation, or that you cease being known as a "Catholic university," as nebulous a term as that is, because it means so much to so many Catholics in America and to the Church itself.  Pragmatism has no place in the search for truth.  Truth is never focused on the wants of the many over the needs of the few, it is not exploitative of tens of millions of innocent unborn lives, and it is never, ever impressed by any office or title or man, even if that man is Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America.  Finally, his hard to pin down, can't quite put your finger on it brand of faith is, well, what can I say?  Except for the fact that I somehow doubt its wholehearted quest for the truth.  As for reason, he has plenty of it, but not of the type that one would hope for in a man who has had the hopes, dreams, and longings of not just a race or even a country, but of the entire world placed upon his shoulders.

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My apologies for any misrepresentations I may have made, whatever they may have been. I'm not under the impression that people get pregnant and then gleefully destroy the life within them. However, understand that to me and millions of other people, a fetus every bit as alive as a grownup or a child. If, out of convenience or desperation or any other circumstance, we were allowed to simply have a doctor kill our spouse or child or enemy or stranger with no repercussions, would that be acceptable? Of course not. And as I clearly regard an unborn child as every bit as full of life as a born child, there is zero difference in those two scenarios for me.
President Obama, as eloquently as always, pointed out the insurmountable differences between the two camps at Notre Dame. Yet while the debate rages, rather than err on the side of life, we continue to make the killing of innocent unborn life easier and more accessible for people. I just don't see how that will result in less abortions, as our President repeatedly states.