Comments for The Art of Obama at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 17 out of 17 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 18:23:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2970 One only has to think back of all the proposed Catholics who supported Obama on the basis that he is not anti-life. A certain Prof got himself an Ambassadorship to Malta for such support. All in the name of upholding Catholic principles. Beware, angels dare to tread where fools rush in! Prof Arkes I tip my hat to ya! - Michael II Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:40:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2963 Mr. Royal, it is an honor to be schooled by a man of your stature, I have your book on Dante I better look into it. I am a neophyte and in frustrated zeal I spouted off the first condemnation that penetrated my thick skull. So maybe not the worst place in hell, but luke warmness definitely has its kick. Thank you Mr. Royal and the rest of the writers at TCT for all you do! - Achilles Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:35:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2960 Pio has a point I want to acknowledge: I had changed the piece from saying a Democratic Senator from California, to saying a Democratic Senator, but for some odd reason the change hadn't gone through. My concern was the one raised here--in this case, I didn't want to suggest anything disparaging about Dianne Feinstein. - Hadley Arkes Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:33:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2958 How about some details about the Nightline broadcast: which Senator from California, the date of the broadcast, other participants, the context of the statement, the progress of the bill in the legislative process, etc. The oblique reference conveniently allows the author to claim a big\"li\", impugns the integrity of two Senators without an opportunity for either to rebut, and makes him sole arbiter of the truth. Pretty clever and audacious (and sloppy too) for a professor of jurisprudence! - Pio Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:18:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2956 Just an observation - back during the campaign, I was reading some things on Communism in the USA back in the 30s and 40s before it went underground. What is being foisted on us today is so close to the agenda the Communists had then that it's scary. Communists infiltrated the Catholic Church and the Government as well as Education. A good 101 for understanding this is to read (it's online) Bella Dodd's "School of Darkness"... - Kathryn E. Stuart Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:51:49 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2955 Thank you for your great article on Mr. Obama. I am sickened by the people who believe his artfully woven web of lies. They defend him as if he was the Christ. I fear that if he is not voted out of office, there will be a revolution here in America. Gods will be done. Eric Pinola - Eric Pinola Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:52:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2954 Yes, in this ObamoNation Obama is a horror of a liar - yet he is no different than the vast majority of Catholic Leadership who are even more clever - for all know that there is no more kind of purposeful and premediated Murder than Abortion, yet they will never call it what it is - you kill a chicken, that is not what you do to an innocent child - but anyone who makes a break with their lying is blacklisted forever. If the Catholics would dare call it what it is by name the abortion problem! - hal barton Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:46:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2953 In point of fact: Dante did NOT reserve the hottest torments for the fence sitters. They just get the contempt and silence of both Heaven and Hell. The worst punishment in Dante, reserved for Satan and the gravest sinners, is to be frozen in ice, unwarmed even by the fires of Hell.. - Robert Royal Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:33:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2952 Dante wisely told us "the hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who refuse to take a stand in a moral crisis." We must not "wait and see" when there is an avalanche of evidence against the integrity and honesty of our current administration. " not consensus but the convergence of the mind with reality is the Truth." Fides et Ratio- Who are your "good and religious people who support this? - Achilles Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:15:26 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2951 A baby born alive in the United States is a citizen - even if the baby was born prematurely due to a botched abortion. Allowing the live baby to die in a closet was murder. It was reported at the time that Obama had said that the woman had a right to a successful abortion. Did he? I don't know. I do know that he didn't condemn the killing. What has happened to us that we no longer see something so obvious? The great deceiver always had a way with words. So do his disciples. - Watcher Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:35:56 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2950 President Obama has not lied when he said “One more misunderstanding I want to clear up – under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.". None of us know the final form of this bill. Wait and see. However, at the end of the day, you must realize that many thoughtful and religious people do not agree with you. They will continue to choose a health plan (paid by these individual and their employer) that fund fully health services for women including abortion. - Jay4 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:35:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2949 Obama's first words to Pope Benedict were, "I will do everything I can to decrease the number of abortions." He lied to the Holy Father's face. Someone who would do this has no moral compass whatsoever. - Qauecumque Vera Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:58:46 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2948 Thank you Professor Arkes, your ending is the big truth about Obama we need to know and understand. Joe gets caught up in the fine print that has no better chance of negating the big lie than a mosquito of knocking over half dome. Thank you so much - Achilles Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:12:23 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2947 I'm reading but I don't see the lie... abortions would be paid for by the premiums paid for into the system. If you want the public option your dollars, NOT TAX DOLLARS, would/could fund abortions. What about this is a lie? Please explain? At the same time before you condemn trying to provide health care for millions of children already alive, funding for prenatal care which could save thousands of babies whom their parents want etc... have you taken a look at your health insurance? - Joe Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:39:47 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2946 Morgan Scott Peck referred to such people as the Congresswoman in the Nightline interview and Mr. Obama as "People of the Li\". In his professional work as a psychiatrist and author, he defined the behavior of such individuals as sociopathic and characteristic of the nature of evil itself. Was not the brilliant Lucifer a person of the lie as well? Thank you Mr. Hadley Arkes for illuminating Mr. Obama's disingenuineness. I doubt you will be censured before the full House! - MPD Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:16 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2942 Anyone read "Lord of the World" by Benson? Who is the Father of lies? Now you know who you are really dealing with......WAKE UP! - Fr Tim Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:59:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/the-art-of-obama.html#comment-2943 Professor your piece leads me back to last November at the Dem. Convention There we were treated to images of Obama among the Greek colonnades and statues. The harbinger of ancient truth had arrived! The new messiah had come. His commonality with these ancients being his skilled rhetoric, not his search for truth, one should have paid more attention to his background. Leopards do not change their spots! His associations often unsavory have not changed. This man is beholding to the radical left - Willie Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:00:27 +0100