Humbly heckled

You don't find exchanges like this one in most "official transcripts."

I also want to congratulate the Class of 2009 for all your accomplishments. And since this is Notre Dame --

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Abortion is murder! Stop killing children!

AUDIENCE: Booo!

THE PRESIDENT: That's all right. And since --

AUDIENCE: We are ND! We are ND!

AUDIENCE: Yes, we can! Yes, we can!

THE PRESIDENT: We're fine, everybody. We're following Brennan's adage that we don't do things easily. (Laughter.) We're not going to shy away from things that are uncomfortable sometimes. (Applause.)

Ross Douthat wrote recently that liberals want to "win" the culture wars. Well, he's an idiot. Our insidious scheme is quite differnet: it is to make the culture wars irrelevant. And, yes we can.