The Party of JFK

During this long campaign season, Barrack Obama has done what he can to show the common folk of this nation that he cares about them.  In his mind, he is the one who can deliver the masses from their terrible circumstance.

I am a seamstress.  I have a union-card holding husband.  I am a Catholic.  I am the perfect target for Barrack Obama and the Democrat Party.  However,  Obama’s Democrat Party doesn’t seem to understand that they are alienating people like me.

I have long thought that the Democrat Party was full of liberals, elitists, racists, chauvinists, and baby killers, but for the Presidential and Vice Presidential picks to be perfect examples of these to the nth power is beyond troubling.

Both my husband and I work with our hands.  I continually teach my children that the color of one’s skin is not a factor in what their worth is.  That prosperity comes with hard work, and if you are blessed, you must share with others that means money, time, and talent. My husband points to his wife as a strong woman and helps his daughter understand why.  I, in turn, teach my son to learn hard work and love from his father.  I teach the kids to look everyone in the eye, no matter what their background and that they are not better than anyone, but no one is better than them.  Who doesn’t teach these values?

Yet, the Democrat Party, fed by the union dues that my husband is forced to pay, shoves a finger in the eye of every single one of these values.  I can’t vote for them on principle though, because they embrace abortion.

We teach our children that abortion is murder (and yes, that means if you do nothing to stop it, you are an accessory.)

“I’ve got two daughters. Nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals.  But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”  Barrack Obama said this during a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in March of 2008.  Now, whether or not that quote is defensible on the grounds that he was speaking off the cuff, or that he wishes to reduce the number of abortions by reducing teen-age pregnancy, it still shows his thought process in a profound way.  Especially since the man voted four times against allowing babies to be resuscitated who were born alive due to a botched abortion.  His argument was that it would be against the mother’s wishes.  This view is evil, plain and simple, and should ensure that most Catholics won’t vote for him.  But it doesn’t.  Unfortunately, the liberal lie that abortion is necessary to prevent women from using coathangers to perform their own seems to keep a lot of people from taking a stand on the issue.

In comes Catholic Joe Biden.  Catholic Joe Biden has been effectively excommunicated, he is being strenuously denounced as a true Catholic all over the nation in Catholic publications and by more than 55 Bishops.  The Bishop of the diocese of his beloved home-town of Scranton forbids he take Holy Communion.  All of this because he is a Catholic in a leadership position who is pro-abortion.  Thank goodness the leadership of the Catholic faith is saying something.

Yet, time and time again, the Democrat Party receives votes from people who absolutely do not agree with them.  The Catholic Vote almost always goes to the Democrats.  Why?

“Don’t be a ‘one issue’ voter,” a man once told me when we were discussing politics and I brought up abortion.

I said, “Yes, it is just one issue, but does it not cut to the quick the character of a person?  Is that not what we do everyday to judge others around us?  If somebody will not protect life, what else is there?”

“Could you just get past that?  I mean, it’s the law of the land.”  He shot back.

“No, it’s a Supreme Court precedent.  The Court does not make law.”  I said.

The Judicial Branch is only supposed to interpret by means of the constitution.

The Party of JFK is no more. The idea that a Catholic can vote for unlimited abortion is beyond the pale. Nancy Pelosi is a supposed Catholic. Joe Biden is a supposed Catholic. John Kerry is a supposed Catholic. You get the drift. The fact is, you are only going to make headway in the Democrat Party by forsaking the innocents.

What about Bart Stupak? Bart Stupak lost his Michigan Right to Life Endorsement shortly after voting for the health care bill. Why? Because there is abortion funding in that bill. He knew it. He also knew that an Executive Order does not change law, yet he waved that EO around like it was the key to his salvation.