Hope v. Hate

Hate

Well Hello again. Call it laziness or information overload, but I have neglected my blog. I have been writing letters to editors, commenting on Salt Lake Tribune articles and gagging because Liz Cheney has been on Network TV 22 freaking times in one month.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney based in his mansion(s) is criticizing everything Obama says, despite one of the most impressive world speeches delivered in my lifetime. Please listen and/or read; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/obama-egypt-speech-video_n_211216.html President Obama was really speaking to the young people, the potential terrorists of the future. His message was that Americans don’t torture, we don’t invade countries for no reason (anymore), and we will respect your government as long as you don’t fly airplanes into our buildings. He is giving the young Islam generation a clear choice of peace vs. joining a group like Al-Qaeda.

On another, even more controversial topic, Dr. George Tiller, a noted abortion Doctor was murdered in cold blood by a pro life advocate? On MSNBC's "Countdown" Monday night, Keith Olbermann argued that Fox News was partially responsible for the murder of Dr. George Tiller. He played clips of the network depicting Tiller as a baby killer and a Nazi, among other things. Doberman called on viewers to not patronize businesses that show Fox News and to encourage their friends not to watch the channel -- "not so much a boycott here as a quarantine." The host pledged to take the first step and "retire the name, the photograph, and the caricature" of Bill O'Reilly. O’Reilly has refused to apologize for his attacks on Dr. Tiller. "When I heard about Tiller's murder, I knew pro-abortion zealots and Fox News haters would attempt to blame us for the crime and that is exactly what has happened," O'Reilly said. He claimed "everything we said about Tiller was true ... no back-pedaling here." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/olbermann-fox-news-compli_n_210188.html Hate speech abounds, with extremists wrapping themselves in the Bible and the Flag and hurling hate speech left and right, then washing their hands of the consequences of some right-wing nut taking a rifle and assassinating a Doctor that did not break the law. No one likes abortion. No pro-choice advocates encourage abortion. At Notre Dame, Obama broached the subject and offered common ground for all interests; “both sides must stop demonizing one another. Obama acknowledged that "no matter how much we want to fudge it ... the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable." But he still implored the University of Notre Dame's graduating class and all in the U.S. to stop "reducing those with differing views to caricature. Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words. It's a way of life that always has been the Notre Dame tradition."

Today is D-Day and we remember and thank our uniformed heroes for the ultimate sacrifice that gave or were willing to give so that we can live in a free country and I can write my silly little blog. President Obama gave an address at Normandy today and said in part, “We live in a world of competing beliefs and claims about what is true. It is a world of varied religions and cultures and forms of government. In such a world, it is rare for a struggle to emerge that speaks to something universal about humanity.

The Second World War did that. No man who shed blood or lost a brother would say that war is good. But all know that this war was essential. For what we faced in Nazi totalitarianism was not just a battle of competing interests. It was a competing vision of humanity. Nazi ideology sought to subjugate, humiliate, and exterminate. It perpetrated murder on a massive scale, fueled by a hatred of those who were deemed different and therefore inferior. It was evil.”

God Bless those that sacrificed for us. God Bless our sons, daughters, husbands, wives and friends who are serving our Country today, willing to sacrifice for you and me.