The President's Commencement Speech

I watched the C-SPAN broadcast of President Obama's commencement speech that he delivered at Notre Dame University. There was a bit of protest over his visit. This protest had to do with the president's stance on stem-cell research. As usual, he addressed this issue in his speech. He made a number of other excellent points, as well. For example, Obama emphasized that we must be "one family" and work together in order to get through these tough times. He also mentioned that today marks the 55th anniversary of Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education, a landmark Supreme Court ruling that overturned the "separate-but-equal" doctrine and fostered the Civil Rights Movement. In terms of my personal views regarding the protests, people need to realize that we are in the middle of two wars and an economic downturn. Those are the things we must be most concerned about.