Obama at Notre Dame

After all the fuss about Obama speaking at Notre Dame, I had to Google his speech to see how he'd handle the abortion issue.

I must say, he was brilliant.  It was the equivalent of Rodney King's "Can't we all just get along?" comment on his - oh, I don't know -  twentieth arrest.

To preface this, I am, for the most part, pro-choice.  Being the mother of two, and almost the mother of three (the third child's absence not by any personal choice) I think I understand the damage it can do to a woman to terminate the life of her child.

Long ago I agonized over when life begins until someone said something to me that, somehow, settled the question for me in a way nothing else ever had.  Life begins in a moment.  In that flash when sperm and egg meet and potential begins.  My children are evidence of that.  The real question is, are you all right with, for whatever reason, ending the life you've begun.

I could never personally have had an abortion because it would have been a decision that would have haunted me for a lifetime. 

When the courts decided that girls needed parental permission to get their ears pierced or get a tattoo before turning eighteen, but could have an abortion without consulting their parents with all of the medical and psychological implications involved, not just at that moment, but for that girl's entire future, I confess I was stunned that our courts could make such a stupid decision for the many based on the bad conditions of the few.

But back to Obama.  If ever I wondered how two-faced - how insincere - how carefully he manages his words and how closely what he says needs to be watched, it was this speech.  If ever there was anyone who was not only pro-choice but almost rabidly pro-abortion, it is Barack Obama.  But his speech made him seem as though he was neither one way nor the other.  This is a man who is just fine with murdering a child during a live birth during the last term of pregnancy for the flightiest of reasons because of a 'mother's right to choose', but you never would have known it from the sweetness and light that spilled from his telepromptered lips.

I heard his speech described as brilliant.  And it was.  Based on his Illinois voting record, there wasn't a word of truth in it, but as always, he got away with it.

What is it, when a leader has charisma, that normally intelligent people suspend that intelligence and want so desperately to believe? 

I have never seen anything like this in my life time.