Below are three downloaded copies of the YouTube.com videos by joegerarden:
President Obama Notre Dame Speech (Part 1)
President Obama Notre Dame Speech (Part 2)
President Obama Notre Dame Speech (Part 3)
While listening to the annoying stop and go, three part videos, I’ve listed my brief (sarcastic, yet enlightening) commentary after each line item to the highlights per FoxNews.com,:
- I am honored to be here.
- I was at a party with the parishioners for a 40th jubilee.
- Honorary degree has not been without controversy.
- No offense: please stop the tradition of giving guest speakers honorary degree!
- Insults those students who worked hard, took out student loans & passed tests.
- Makes others realize that anyone can be president and still get free stuff! Neat!
- Every one of you should be proud.
- I’m proud to be an AMERICAN! And so should y’all!
- Class has come of age at a moment of great consequence.
- You are the future work force of AMERICA.
- Please make smarter state-owned, tax-paying baby drones.
- We must remake our world to renew its promise.
- That means to CHANGE but learn to tolerate, even if wrong.
- Must find a way to live together as one human family.
- People need to live together with ALL living, sentient beings.
- Major threats we face do not discriminate.
- Huh? So the terrors are the ones that DO discriminate?
- We cling to outworn prejudice, fear the unfamiliar.
- People must be de-programmed with positive feedback.
- Too many view life through lens of immediate self-interest.
- I know! I’m feeling communist. But in reality, people are programmed for self first then others.
- The strong too often dominate the weak.
- I, too, find myself too weak to fight back.
- Too many with wealth and power find justification for privilege.
- It’s because ‘birds of a feather flock together’.
- It can be hard to bring together people of good will.
- That’s why we build walls and protect our borders.
- Must open minds to have possibility of common grounds.
- Options are available. Let’s remember life as a commonality.
- Let’s work together to reduce seeking of abortions.
- Fetuses have life. Some live through abortions!
- Let’s work to reduce unintended pregnancies.
- Woman are OLD ENOUGH to decide.
- Let’s work together to make adoption available.
- Old souls prefer this option over abortion.
- Let’s honor conscience of those who disagree with abortion.
- Don’t worry! The spirits have a choice to return to another body.
- Let’s draft a sensible conscience clause.
- People are out of control. They need laws.
- Health care policy must be grounded in clear ethics.
- It gives the nurses opportunity to save the aborted lives.
- Health care policies must respect equality of women.
- Women have hormonal imbalance. Just help them.
- I do not suggest on abortion can/should go away.
- Again, abortion is allowed, just as freewill.
- View of most on abortion are complex, even contradictory.
- Again, allow the option to avoid disenfranchisement.
- At some level, views of two camps are irreconcilable.
- Again, allow the women to decide the fate of the unborn.
- Learned the tradition of understanding in my own life.
- Again, don’t make babies, if y’all can’t afford to take care of it!
- My mother instilled in me a sense of service and empathy.
- Okay, that’s nice. Move on, please.
- Touching others’ hearts and minds is our greatest calling.
- That’s why Obama spoke about abortion as an option at a pre-dominantly Catholic, pro-life arena.
- Have confidence in values with which you’ve been raised.
- Just know this: Love one another.
- Be unafraid to speak your mind.
- ‘Love’ learns from harsh criticism. But love never changes.
- Hold firm to your faith and let it guide you.
- Prayers work. Sometimes the results come when least expected.
- Irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt.
- That’s where the critical mind serves as a warning mechanism where blind faith leads.
- Beyond our capacity to know with certainty God’s plan.
- Not even the angels or the Son of God’ knows.
- BOTTOMLINE: All I ask is for y’all to behave and try to reconcile your differences!
- We must trust that God’s wisdom is greater than our own.
- God is minuscule yet infinite. Let’s learn from each other!
- Doubt should not push us away from our faith.
- Doubt means something is wrong.
- Doubt should humble us: It should temper our passions.
- Doubt allows us to reconsider hasty actions, words and deeds.
- Doubt should cause us to be wary of self-righteousness.
- Doubt has a way of making others incorrect.
- Doubt should remind us to persuade through reason.
- Use your common sense. Sometimes gut feelings work, too.
- Should persuade through good works, charity, kindness.
- Be a lighthouse, basically.
- We are bound to others by the call to love, to serve.
- But first take care of yourself; so as to be able to answer the call.
- Service breaks down walls and fosters cooperation.
- Work harder!
- When differences are set aside, all things are possible.
- Prepare for the NWO!
- I will not pretend the challenges we face will be easy.
- That’s wherein comes those who have parts of the puzzle to put together with those lost pieces.
- I will not pretend all our differences will fade away.
- We can try to forgive but cannot forget!
- We all seek the same fulfillment of a life well lived.
Mother and Child
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