In another classic political obfuscation President Obama called for greater understanding on both sides of the abortion issue. Unfortunately while that sounds like a worthy goal the debate between life and death has very little common ground on which to begin conciliation.

Initially the president sounded as if he understood that the oil and water of this issue can and will never be homogenized. He said “I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. At some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable.” At least for a brief moment it sounded as if he was saying that life is life and death is death. We can debate the details but the core issue can never be rectified by compromise. He then added “Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.”

As always the presidents words were almost lyrical to the ear so as to hide their true meaning. As he went on he recalled an instance from 2004 just after he won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. He said he received a letter from a doctor that objected to the verbiage used on his web site that warned voters that “right-wing ideologues” wanted to take away a women’s right to choose.

“The doctor said he had assumed I was a reasonable person,” he said. “But that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable.” Obama said that because of that letter, while he did not change his position on the issue, he did change the language on his web site. And therein lays the problem.

The President of the United States, speaking to the graduating class of Notre Dame stated his belief that somehow by changing the language in which he described his misguided view, without changing the view itself, was the key to successful understanding and tolerance. What a valuable lesson he put on full display for these young academics.

Right there in that single description this president is stating unequivocally that his words do not match his ideals or sentiments but instead are used mask them. To quote George Orwell (as I have been known to do often) “For a creative writer possession of the truth is far less important than emotional sincerity”. Or to put it another way as French diplomat and playwright Jean Giraudoux said “The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made”.

To reduce the debate between those that support the right to life of unborn babies and those willing to accept their death by a hideous procedure akin to something dreamed up by Dr. Josef Mengele, as being something that can be solved by choosing ones words carefully is more than insulting. It’s downright terrifying.

This president is not only an ardent supporter of abortion, he is a proven supporter of late term abortion in which a baby is delivered feet first up to the head at which point a device is inserted into the base of the skull and the brains scrambled. He also voted repeatedly to pass legislation making it legal for doctors to abandon a living baby if it was delivered during an abortion and allow that baby to struggle unattended until it dies.

I am sorry Mr. President, but no amount of well chosen words can ever make this acceptable to me.

When it comes to well chosen words I prefer those of the 17th century French author François de la Rochefoucauld when he said “Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.”

I guess that’s the new definition of “CHANGE”