Comments on: Notre Dame Alumni and Supporters Should Stop Payment

By: larueladue

larueladue — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:07:03 +0000

I wouldn’t stand up or shake his hand… Just couldn’t bring myself to do it. I have absolutely no respect for the man, and what he has done so far while in office has dishonored the office enough that I couldn’t do anything that would give honor or respect to him, regardless of the office he holds.

Oddly enough, I felt (and still feel) the same way about Bill Clinton.

By: janis

janis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:50:06 +0000

My sediments exactly. Obama can have my sediments, too. Usually I put them in the compost pile, but, hey, anything for the Zero.

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:41:08 +0000

If cornered, my actions and attitude would mirror achance’s and would be placed firmly in the category of good manners. If he walked into a room, I would stand up, but only in order to walk out if at all possible.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:31:18 +0000

By: Achance

Achance — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:00:25 +0000

loyalty as a citizen. I respect the fact that he is the chief executive of the Country and in some limited ways has authority over me, an authority I cannot challenge without some risk of consequences. I’d stand up when he walked into a room, shake his hand if he reached out, probably address him as Sir, but that’s about as far as it goes, and I just put those in the good manners category.

Beyond showing good manners, I intend to do everything I can to thwart him and his, to criticize him and his supporters, and to defeat them at every opportunity.

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:53:26 +0000

“Acting a kid in the playground who takes his ball home when he loses isn’t going to change anything.”

Wrong. We’re going to take the ball back, and all we need is 3% of the sycophants to wake up and come with us. Trust me, they are waking up like you would not believe.

He was lightly qualified and incompetent before he took office, and he has not done one thing since to change anyone’s opinion. I wouldn’t walk across the street to hear him blabber, and the honor will be when we send him packing to the Multicultural Studies faculty lounge.

By: SIConservative

SIConservative — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:04:08 +0000

In the event that this does happen, the students, alumni, parents, and (hopefully) faculty would be well served to start praying the Rosary when he begins to speak. For starters, the Blessed Mother takes priority over the President, especially when she has home field advantage. What’s more, it needn’t be an abusive use of prayer to advance a political agenda, but rather would be an authentic invocation for the conversion of the heart of the leader of the free world.

By: mcg

mcg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:42:26 +0000

However, Notre Dame supposedly answers to a power even higher than him.

By: liberalrepublican

liberalrepublican — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:42 +0000

Come on.

The President of the United States is a pretty important person.

The office always commands respect.

I don’t have such a anti-American view (52% are mentally defective).

He won. Fair and square. I thought is was pathetic the way some on the left acted towards Bush (He’s not MY President – yeah, you have your own country sean penn).

Acting a kid in the playground who takes his ball home when he loses isn’t going to change anything.

By: Flagstaff

Flagstaff — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:54:10 +0000

We didn’t like what the liftists did to our guy, so we can’t do it to their guy? get real. did you only know about it because your a Furman grad, or because it got on the news? The latter, I imagine.

Students protesting The One’s appearance at Notre Dame is exactly the kind of press that we need, day in and day out. No disruptive behavior, I agree, but visible and newsworthy dissent, ABSOLUTELY. T-shirts, why not? Signs along the route of the motorcade, you bet. Other young people need to know that they’re not alone, and that their voices can be heard just as well as can those of the leftists. And if the Obamacrats decided to take extreme measures to silence dissent, so much the better for the evening news.

I somehow think it will never happen, anyway. There will be some excuse why he won’t go, or ND will dis-invite him because of alumni backlash.