I see this sign at three Catholic schools as I drive to work each day, and I wonder. I wonder if its sponsors understand what it means. I wonder if its sponsors understand that abortions are performed regardless of laws prohibiting them. I wonder if the same principle applies to the innocent casualties of the Iraq war. I wonder how the fact that abortions increase under republican, read "God's party", leadership escapes them. I wonder, how the fact that in Brazil where abortion is illegal, there exists a black market for it. A black market that causes the deaths of countless women exists. Do they choose the lives of those women? Do they choose life for the mentally retarded who are condemned to death in Texas for committing a crime they do not understatnd? We know the answer. It is no. I wonder if they choose life for the homeless person dying from the cold as he sleeps next to the cathedral stairs. I wonder if they choose life for the elderly eating dog food to stay alive when their social security checks don't make ends meet. Do they? DO THEY?
Okay, I wrote the first paragraph a few days ago, and now I feel the need to equate it to our particular discussion today. Choose life. Kossacks, do you forget what brought us here together? We all sought a more progressive future, but now we are reduced to bitching and moaning about our particular opinions on the AnHelliona JoeLie situation. Listen, Barack has got this thing, and he needs to lead with an aire of bipartisanship to meet his goals (and some of ours), so stop second guessing him, and join the fight. Get on Change.Gov and voice your opinions on topics other than HRC or JIL. Let us mold his agenda ever so softly to coellesce with ours.
The flame wars and constant bickering are the reason we lost seats in 94. We were a party divided. Stop the BS, some of us are more liberal, some of us less so, but we are all far to the left of the republicans to give them a window back into power. Make no mistake, this infighting is opening that window.
Over the past months I have gotten to know many of you, and I have been on the same page, but today, it saddens me, because I see a party in dissaray. Yes, I know that was a run on sentence. We need to achieve the one purpose we had before, and I MEAN TONIGHT GOD DAMNIT! There is no time for this back and forth circular firing squad. It was supposed to be the republicans doing this, not us. End it now, and we may just be the change we were looking for.