The Silent Issue

It's astonishing that criteria for voting for a president is based in large part for many people on a candidate's stance on abortion. This is embarassingly simple minded. The "hotbed" issue has nothing to do with the office of president and the skills, expertise, and knowledge necessary for governing a country. Too many Americans think only of their precious opinions when voting instead of considering the more crucial elements and having a global consciousness, because governing the country includes thinking of the country's place in the world and its relation to other nations. I'm against abortion but that is a personal viewpoint. It is crucial to uphold the founding principles of this country. For those who forget, and it's obvious that all too many do, the separation of church and state is one of those founding principles. Religion should not infect the state and the state should not infect our religion. I count all those who wish to intermingle the two as nothing less than anti-American. The so-called patriots and those who profess to being patriots the loudest could not be more blatantly unpatriotic. It's time the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence be read in the streets and on television and over the radio once a month.

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FOR VOTERS THAT 'TWICE' PULLED THE LEVER FOR "W" AND ARE THINKING ABOUT GIVING McSAME A 3RD BUSH TERM, THEN THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING.

George W. Bush and his sidekick John McSame who supported 90% of Bush's policies have brought you over the past 8-years the following disasters:

1.) - two unending wars (Iraq & Afghanistan) and potential for 2 more (Pakistan & Iran),
2.) - economic meltdown,
3.) - skyrocketing unemployment,
4.) - disastrous energy policies,
5.) - record breaking home foreclosures,
6.) - unaffordable or no health insurance coverage,
7.) - lost investments, pensions and retirement plans,
8.) - never ending national debt,
9.) - out-of-reach affordable education
10.) - lost of international credibility
11.) - divisions in government,
12.) - allow jobs to go overseas,
13.) - AWOL during America???s worst hurricane disaster (Katrina)
14.) - Forcing U.S. troops into multiple year-long tours in Iraq???s kill zone,
15.) - NOT supplying our troops in Baghdad the equipment they needed and at the time they needed it,
16.) - NOT supplying Iraqi veterans the VA benefits and mental help they deserve after serving honorably in battle.

Think people!! Intelligence dictates that you don't put McSame's same failed policies from the Bush years back into office for a third McBush term. Think people!! Vote intelligently. Vote Obama-Biden leadership.

GOD Bless the United States of America!
GOD Bless the Obama-Biden Leadership Team!

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

Thank you for those last 3 points. People forget that pro-choice DOES NOT mean pro-abortion. It simply means the right to choose. I love children, have my own and am a foster parent. I am a school teacher and I believe in the right to choose. Would I insist my teenage daughter have an abortion just because i'm labelled pro-choice? Absolutely not. It's about weighing out your options, making choices which will undoubtedly have a great effect short term and in the future...Women have been having abortions since society began. It is finally safe to do so. Let's focus on the war, where sons daughters sisters brothers mothers and fathers are dying everyday and leave the right to choose in the hands of the ones making the choices.

The issue is never black-and-white as many Christians think it is. It's quite gray, especially regarding rare cases of rape, incest, and when the mother's life is in jeopardy. These exceptions should be made since not every woman have the mental strength to carry a child of her raper. If the mother's life is in jeopardy and the only way to save her is to abort the child, who has not been develope enough to survive outside the womb even with those life-support systems, would it be better to save the mother so she can try again to have a child than to let both the mother and child die? Those who consider themselves 'Pro-Life' really have to consider what that means to them in regard to the respect of life. IMO, anyone who bluntly do not think over the whole issue and still thinks abortion should be outlaw totally with no exceptions, really are not 'Pro-Life' at all.

All you liberals will have nobody to blame but yourselves when your son comes home one day and introduces you to his "partner" or your daughter kills herself becuase she is a drug addict looser that has had a dozen abortions by the time she is 19. A godless society is a worthless society that needs to be exterminated.