Compromise is Losing.

At Notre Dame, Obama talked about finding common ground between Pro Life and Pro Choice causes. He discussed issues like cutting down on unwanted pregnancies and expanding adoption opportunities. Freepers, however, were beyond argument:

Diago typically misses any notion of any peripheral policies like preventing pregnancies, preferring rage con constructive dialogue:

Obama is using tax dollars for free abortions. How are free abortions going to make abortion rare? If he wanted less abortion wouldn’t he tax them not make them free?

Lexinom is similarly all about constructive suggestions everyone can get behind:

What is your plan to call remembrance for the 50 million Americans violently executed through surgical and chemical abortions, and to assuage the mothers' concomitant psychological scars? A national day of mourning? A national cemetery?

keats5 may not knows his history, but at least he makes an argument:

Would he have supported common ground during the slavery debate?

Wait, did I say argument? I meant weak analogy.

Disregarding the inaptitude of the slavery-abortion analogy (both sides use it, for one thing), Lincoln was a free-stater. Of course, Freepers are more like John Brown, as muawiyah shows:

The pro-abortion crowd are certifiably mad. When we think of them as murderers there's really no common ground of any kind.

For example, if Obama and company were wandering about stabbing old ladies to death in the parks and taking their purses, what would be a compromise position? Perhaps we might let them take the purses as the old ladies come into the park? Or, maybe we could let them get away with stabbing only half the old ladies.

Just doesn't happen.

At the moment they have all the guns. When that's gone we must be prepared to act swiftly to clear our society of these monsters.

Nice.

Never on my watch is all about character, and not about...you know, ideas:

Some things are just plain WRONG.

Some things are just plain EVIL.

Some ideas originate from the DEVIL.

Obama is WRONG, EVIL and ORIGINATES from the DEVIL.

I will not seek common ground with him. I will protect my ground from him.

It's funny cause ground has like two meanings, see?

bray prefers deflection to argument:

He never axed for common ground for Homosexual Marriage and Miss California. Common ground means give up our morals and agree w/him.

Pray for America and the Unborn

Cause Obama was all up on that Miss California thing. Not that Obama wanted them to drop the issue. But Freepers seemed to be stuck in some opposite day or some such: Carl LaFong

“Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction,” he said. “But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.”

In other words don’t criticize my position and characterize ‘abortion rights’ advocacy as murder and evil.This is a variation of the theme: “Shut Up”

So when Obama says "keep talking, but keep it constructive" Freepers think this is the same as "shut up." Which makes sense as they have nothing constructive to add.