Some arguments against Barack Obama are so over-the-top that they make real arguments and policy differences less likely to be taken seriously.
This guy is not helping things:
His Eminence James Francis Cardinal Stafford criticized President-elect Barack Obama as “aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic,“ and said he campaigned on an “extremist anti-life platform,” Thursday night in Keane Auditorium during his lecture “Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II: Being True in Body and Soul...“
“For the next few years, Gethsemane will not be marginal. We will know that garden,” Stafford said, comparing America’s future with Obama as president to Jesus’ agony in the garden. “On November 4, 2008, America suffered a cultural earthquake.”
Cardinal Stafford said Catholics must deal with the “hot, angry tears of betrayal” by beginning a new sentiment where one is “with Jesus, sick because of love.”
The lecture, hosted by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, pertained to Humanae Vitae, a papal encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968 and celebrating its 40 anniversary this year.
I would recommend the Stafford stick to talking about things he knows something about, like the Scriptures, but clearly he's not very skilled at deciphering them either.
If he is using the word "apocalyptic" as an exaggeration, then he should know better than to use such a loaded and meaningful word so cheaply. It's not like he's talking to friends here and making an offhand comment. He's teaching young skulls full of mush. And he's dangerous.
If he's using it as I believe he is, one must wonder how he knows this. Was it revealed to him? And if so, why is he bothering to worry about the future of the country? Does he believe he can prevent the apocalypse? Good luck with that, Stafford.
Assuming this election result isn't an imminent sign of the apocalypse, which if I had to bet I would say it isn't (it's not like I'll have to pay up if I'm wrong), then he is doing even more harm. In a time where people who are concerned about an Obama presidency need to remain most hopeful and positive in the battle to defeat his policy proposals, Stafford supplies his students with images and talk of defeat.
This is no speech encouraging his students to work for positive change. This is a speech more likely to make them look around, see the economic signs, see the cultural worries that Stafford sees, and respond by bemoaning their fate and waiting for it to overtake them.
Nice job, Card. Fucking idiot.
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