As a store we haven’t really taken sides in this election apart from a couple of posts here , here and here and my daughter’s endorsement of Chuck Norris. So, we figured it was about time to say something about the upcoming election.

This was going to be a video but time constraints and missing video camera parts have resulted in a much lower-tech version than we had planned. Sigh.

I’m voting for Obama because:

• I like socialism.
• I think the government should handle our health care. Just like they’ve handled our mortgage crisis.
• I support the second amendment.
  
• I oppose the second amendment.
• I think babies who survive abortions should be left to die.
• he’s worked closely with Bill Ayers and I like domestic terrorists, too.
• Hollywood said to.
• he would have abandoned Iraq to terrorists.
• I don’t think our constitution is very good either.
• I think a judge’s personal experience is more important than fairly applying the law.
  
• the Nation of Islam thinks he is the Messiah.
• he supports changing the definition of marriage
  
• he opposes changing the definition of marriage.
• he’s friends with Tony Rezko and I like convicted felons, too.
• he only wants to raise taxes on people who make more than $250,000 a year.
  
• he only wants to raise taxes on people who make more than $200,000 a year.
• he only wants to raise taxes on people who make more than $150,000 a year.
• he only voted to raise taxes on people making more than $42,000 a year / he will only raise taxes on those making more than $100,000 a year / he will only raises taxes on those making more than $140,000 a year
• only people who go to Ivy-League schools are qualified to be president.
• he looks down on religious people and gun owners.
• I don’t want to be able to find out if my under-age daughter is getting an abortion.
• he believes in class warefare and I hate rich people, too.
• his supporters are really good at committing voter registration fraud.
• the first thing he will do as president is abolish all restrictions on abortion.
• paying higher taxes is patriotic.
• I like buying oil from terrorist supporting states and two-bit dictators.
• Obama is like President Franklin Roosevelt. You know, he got on TV and calmed the panic during the 1929 stock market crash.
• Fr. Flager endorsed him and I like white racists.
• Rev. Wright was his pastor for years and I like black racists as much as I like white ones.
• he thinks that by voting for him we can lower the level of the oceans.
• he opposes storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
  
• he voted twice to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
• he will make small businesses that don’t provide health care plans to employees pay more taxes.
• he supports high gas prices. I hate only paying $3.50 a gallon for gas.
• the media told me to and I don’t want to think for myself.
• he wants to spread the wealth around and I’m too lazy to earn my own money so taking it from other people sounds like a great deal to me.
• we’ll have an international crisis within six months of his inauguration.
  

After the third time McCain mentioned how he works across the aisle with Feingold (to restrict First Ammendment rights) and Kennedy (to massively increase funding of our failing public education system) I turned off the debate.

The only way he could try harder to lose would be to come right out and tell conservatives to stay home on election day.

Actually, no. The still from the You Tube video of thirteen pro-life protesters, including two priests, who did get arrested at the Democratic National Convention just happens to show our pastor, Fr. Tom in the midst of the group right before the arrests. He was actually giving them a blessing.

The police in Denver have mellowed since the days when my Aunt was in Operation Rescue. At one rally the police all took off their badges so you couldn’t file a complaint, used excessive force including choking my aunt and tossed her in jail after confiscating her asthma medicine. I sometimes wonder if the US bishops had stood united with the folks from Operation Rescue if the abortion debate would have been settled twenty years ago.

Fr. Tom had been a participant in the prayer vigil at the new Planned Parenthood abortuary in Denver that just opened the night before. The vigil featured Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King.

Since the DNC is still in town and Obama has been annointed as the nominee here are a couple of things to keep in mind about him:

• He is more rabidly pro-abortion than NARAL. Even NARAL didn’t oppose a law that would make it illegal for babies who survive an abortion to be left to die. Obama repeatedly voted down legislation meant to protect these poor babies and then lied about it repeatedly.
• Obama has promised Planned Parenthood that the FIRST thing he will sign into law upon becoming president is the “Freedom of Choice Act”, a law removing any restrictions on abortion.

If you are interested in the circus that Nancy Pelosi has become, American Papist has the goods.

Since so much effort is being devoted to distorting the Faith and trying to convince Catholics that abortion is really just a little issue, it’s time to arm yourself with some rational thoughts on the matter:

• Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship (USCCB)
• Render Unto Caesar (Archbishop Charles Chaput)
• Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics (Catholic Answers)
• Compendium of Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church

What happens when my general manager doesn’t have enough to do.