Wonkette
- BARACK OBAMA HAS NO VALID EXCUSE FOR SPEAKING AT THIS COLLEGE: So the right has been saying that the President of the United States, Obama, should not speak at the famous college Notre Dame because he is pro-choice, and now the left — or at least a few wily provocateurs at The American Prospect! — says that he should not speak at the famous college Notre Dame because “a progressive president shouldn’t support an institution that reserves 25 percent of its admissions seats for legacies.” Huh. Hmm… uhhhh… eh. SO, Notre Dame, you say? That’s the one with the football team, right? [The American Prospect]
Until Notre Dame apologizes for the priest pedophile scandals, the Inquisition, and the rabid antisemitism Obama should avoid all Catholic institutions.
Well, shit, sounds OK to me. Where can the dude speak then? I guess community colleges and vocational schools.
Sure, why not? I mean WTF, it’s about their turn for some Presidential graduation speechifying.
If that 25% legacy set-aside is true, that explains a lot about the Micks I know who graduated from there. Barack should go on parents weekend instead and talk about busing in Boston in the 70s…
I’m coming from a country where abortion is illegal. What do women end up doing? Going to underground clinics and while the rich one’s simply leave the country and come back. I’m sure this would suit the wingnuts just fine.
He shouldn’t speak there because the school doesn’t know how to pronounce their own name. Also, because every Catholic school in the Northeast is filled with Irish-descended assholes who try to demand that everyone worship their shitty football team, even when they are playing a local team.
It’d be better if the Prez just said: “ya know what, skip it. Ya’ll can’t take it. Listen to some white dude in a tall hat tell you what to do. I’ll go to Berkley and speak there and fire up a fattie at Arizona State…” I mean, screw ND. They for sure don’t need him to come to get grads to show up at commencement (I imagine they get some kind of absolution for all the crap they did for four years at the end of the ceremony). Skip it Hopey. You don’t need the hassle…tell them “no” the Friday before so they have to settle on some lame-o (Blago, maybe, or Palin).
I’m glad to see that Notre Dame is advertising its Executive MBA program on the American Prospect site.
Slippery slope liberals: let them have their legacies and rich kids so we can use them to argue for our minorities and poor kids.
Of all the things to boycott a Catholic institution over, the authors chose admission of legacies? The Pope thinks science and reason should be subjugated to theological doctrine; the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim was excommunicated for getting her child an abortion; the church advocates meddling in political affairs by refusing communion to pro-choice politicians; not to mention the substrate of religious marshmallow on which any theology is already based — and legacies are the issue that should keep President Obama from speaking there?
Whenever the righties accuse Notre Dame of selling out to whatever by conferring an honorary degree upon a liberal — remember that we liberals are much bigger whores. Obama will see your abortions and raise you separation of church and state, civil rights, executive privilege, habeas corpus and the entirety of enlightenment humanism. So y’all can put your bloody dolls away and listen to the nice speech.
JMP: But aren’t we all Irish-descended assholes, at least a little?
That’s the one with the hunchback, right?
He’s speaking at a church in Paris?
I though he just went to Europe last month…er, what, there is some school named that too? In..er, what, Indiana??!!
Damn, Americans are the stoooopid self-centred navy-gazers ya’ll been saying ’round here.
boatapple: I say if you can drink an Irishman under the table you should get a free pass.
Fuck all that Free Speech stuff. Only Christian Carrie can say what she wants, not the Nigerian President of the Muslin States of America. Libruls hate God. Amen.
SayItWithWookies: Amen et ite, missa est.
Let the man speak at one of the best community colleges in the country, but one that is so fricken cheap, on one wants a stoopid legacy enrollment. Therefore I say:
MiraCosta College CA for less than $600 per year, 24th best community college in this great country of ours, according to Washington Monthly.
Atlanta Technical College GA is number one community college but it almost $1400. Gotta be some small time legacy there. Local car dealership or rib house, or something. I don’t trust it. I smell a goofy concern troll liberal scandal there.
(washingtonmonthly.com/features/2007/0709.careyessay.html)
…well, they used to have a football team. Then they hired a black coach who did bad and fired him, and a white coach who did worse, so they gave him a ten year contract extension. Hopey will feel right at home.
Custerwolf: Name the table. I’m there.
shanemacgowan: Of course you are, you lousy mick. Hey, name me a really good brand of Irish whiskey. My old boyfriend (a wonderful Irishman, Mr.Lawless) used to drink it all the time and I can’t remember the name so it’s been driving me crazy (not enough to go the liquor store and take a gander, mind ye). If I weren’t already Irish, I’d meet you under the table with a bottle of it.
Hopey is coming to Tempe tomorrow and I have to drive there to go to the airport.
hmm, the airport is next to Tempe.
They dissed him too, and he is still going.
He is a nice guy for not canceling, right?
ph7: Yup. Some of the least bright people I know ended up there because of legacies. Ever since they started letting women in there, I’m convinced it is some sort of giant Irish American inbreeding program -they even all look alike.
x111e7thst: Okay, you’re gonna have to help me out with that. Not that my Latin is much to speak of, but I can usually get around that. It’s too vague to make any sense to the translators I tried, so it must be in some sort of context. But googling it gets six results — all in French, and at least two having something to do with glaucoma. I mean, I’ll keep looking, but help a guy out here…
SayItWithWookies: Go, you are sent forth.
The rules don’t apply to Barry, he ain’t catlick, so suck it.
Custerwolf: Tullamore Dew. I hope we aren’t related, because I have a crush on you.
shanemacgowan: That’s IT!!! Let’s have a drink.
Hopey should give a commencement address at bartender’s school.
An egalitarian bartender’s school that does not have legacy admissions.
(that is they do not admit Irish)
Ha ha. I am half Irish, so I can say that.
Then Barack should get drunk, with the class. Then he should try to juggle some glasses and drop them all.
That will keep the media, who seem rather bored now, busy for a few weeks.
As a former Catholic, does Obama really want to walk into a situation with so many clerics? I mean does he understand the consequences of being surrounded by so many pervs? This is just strange.
Custerwolf: Oh, okay — epiphany. Even as a child, Christianity pretty much disappeared between Christmas and Palm Sunday. Which is good, because I would’ve driven off a cliff if I had been forced to get up on Sunday mornings to attend church in January.
shanemacgowan: Jesus boyo, what kind of Irishman worries about her being related?
There’s a reason we’re so damn good at begging forgiveness son. You’ve no right to be shittin’ on the venerated traditions of your ancestors.
peorgietirebiter: YOU are DEFINITELY Irish.
Fuck those Mick Jesus Freaks. Barry should anal crucify a fetus on stage to teach them a lesson.
How can the protesters be so blind? Can’t they see that Obama is the Kwisatz Haderach, born of generations of selective breeding starting with Jesus and Mary Magdalen? Just look at da Vinci’s pictures people!
Notre Dame is just French for Nostradamus, who predicted the world would end in 2012, because of the Mayans.
I consider myself pretty progressive, so I am concerned by my objection to Notre Dame University. Namely that it is full of filthy, Irish Papists, who should never have been allowed to immigrate to America in the first place. Their violent, drunken “culture” is completely incompatible with ours, and they show a stubborn refusal to assimilate.
Oh, all right, I’m just jealous because St. David’s Day never became an annual American booze up.
Barry should demand that ND reserve 25% of its freshman slots for aborted fetuses. That would shut the left up and the wingnuts would just explode. Or not.
I’m opposed to him speaking there because the bells could very well make him go entirely deaf.
“Legacy admissions” - AKA, Affirmative Action for white folks…
gurukalehuru: notre dame = our lady. but your theory is funner.
There ain’t nothin’ like Notre Dame!
Nothin’ in the world.
There ain’t nothin’ so profane
As an abortionist at Notre Dame!
SayItWithWookies: “the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim was excommunicated for getting her child an abortion”
You neglect to mention that the rapist is considered A-OK in the eyes of the church, he’s still a member in good standing.
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