Lowering the number of unwanted pregnancies, for example.

And exactly how do you intend to do that, palm?

More sex education? Won’t work. We live in a sex-obsessed culture. Remember those dimwit high school girls in Massachusetts last year who made a pact to all get pregnant? They all knew exactly what do to do prevent pregnancy, and did just the opposite. And it’s a reasonable assumption that anyone over the age of 18 knows how babies are made.

A campaign to promote abstinence? A good idea, but be prepared to be mocked incessantly by the pop culture icons and vilified by the entire left-wing political establishment, which equates abstinence with Judeo-Christian morality – and there’s nothing they hate more than that (except maybe George Bush). Ask Carrie Prejean what that’s like.

A federally funded program to put no-fee condom dispensers on every street corner of the country? Won’t work. When two people are in heat, they’re not going to stop while one of them puts his pants back on to go to the nearest Federal Department of Non-Procreation (DONP) prophylactic center.

Federally-mandated chastity belts that can only be removed by a DONP inspector upon completion of the necessary forms (in triplicate), and then only for a specified time period? OK, that would work. Probably too well…

Ultimately, reducing unwanted pregnancies is a matter of personal responsibility. Good luck finding anyone on the Obama team who subscribes to that concept. They’re statists who believe everything – what you drive, what you eat, how much you earn, where your kids go to school – should be dictated by the government. The idea of two people taking responsibility for their acts is so – conservative.

Which is why ST calls his “common ground” remark “just words” (I’d express it in a bit more colorful language). This is a man who thinks babies who somehow survive an abortion should be pitched across the room onto a pile of soiled laundry until they do him the favor of dying. This is a man who wants to remove the conscience protection clause for doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. This is a narcissist who knows one thing: “I won”.

He’s not interested in finding common ground. He says things like that because he’s interested in making Chris Matthews’ leg tingle again.

Lowering the number of unwanted pregnancies, for example.

In addition, how does one compromise on human life? Either it’s ripe for the picking or it’s sacred and endowed with the unalienable right to life. As I believe it’s the latter, I’m not about to compromise about how many or which ones or under what circumstances (beyond the mother’s life) one can do away with the child. It’s no different than killing anyone who gets in my way, so exactly where can one possibly compromise on this issue?

And when it comes to ESCR, we know it isn’t necessary anymore since two recent studies found another means of procuring cells that are just as good without killing a person to get them. Plus the science has shown ESCR to be a dead end anyway, so federal funding for such is completely wasteful in this economic climate.

Obumble’s just blowing smoke.

In other words, the only common ground for Obama (et al) is “their way or the highway.”