Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Gerald Warner on the Obama/Notre Dame Outrage

Gerald Warner is described by the Telegraph which he writes for as "an author, broadcaster, columnist and polemical commentator who writes about politics, religion, history, culture and society in general. If it is an exaggeration to say that he believes the world has gone to the dogs, it is only a slight hyperbole."

In this article, Warner uses his keen sense of conservatism to evaluate Barack Obama's "performance" at Notre Dame.

Sometimes something so gruesome is perpetrated in public life that the sick bag is an inadequate repository for one's involuntary reaction. Under the Blair regime this was an almost daily problem. Now, however, there is a practitioner of gorge-rising hypocrisy on the world stage so shameless he makes the Great Charlatan look like an amateur. His name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Yesterday, at the formerly Catholic University of Notre Dame, this snake-oil salesman carried the gospel of abortion into what should have been the most hostile territory on the face of the earth but which, thanks to the great apostasy known as the Second Vatican Council and the self-interest of Democrat-supporting pseudo-Catholics, was a favourable environment. To the rapturous applause of those who put establishment endorsement before the most basic human decencies, Obama preached his message of consensual infanticide...


Read the rest of this column here.