This list is a joke. I am a Catholic and no way would I vote for Obama. No one in my family is either.

Just look up the records of the people on this list and you will see that most of them are not true to the Catholic teachings. I don't know how they call themselves Catholic.

Posted by: Elizabeth | May 3, 2008 11:39 AM

Any list that includes Teddy Kennedy or Pat Leahy as providing advice from Catholics has an emetic quality on this practicing Catholic. And the people who dreamed up this council are serious! What a depressing list of second-rate pols and vacuous liberals! What possible advice could or would this gang provide other than say, do more of the same, Barry, favor abortion up to and perhaps even beyond the moment a baby's head appears--partial-birth abortion--and definitely oppose school vouchers. Ya gotta do what your interest group supporters want, Barry, and that's oppose anything that might disturb the government's near-monopoly on child education.

Howard Dean and various other Democrats want the public to ignore what the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has said. The corrupt newspaper where I formerly worked as a reporter has only once quoted anything that Rev. Wright has said, in a Sunday story tucked away on Page 10. Other news outfits haven't done that much. So let's forget the senator's close association with a genuine, full-blown racial bigot who holds nutty and loathsome views about this country, and forget Obama's blame Whitey speech in Philadelphia that entranced useful idiots like David Broder of the WaPo.

But Obama's vacuous convention speech in 2004 and campaign speech comments this year appealed to the hope of many for a postracial society. That "uniting" theme and postracial appeal were central to his candidacy! On the issues, he was to the left of most Democrats, but he differed little from the other Dem candidates for President this year. But the Wright problem erupted and can't be ignored: either Obama has weak judgment of people--ain't no new Wright, Barry--or he is a lousy liar. In either case, he's unqualified to hold any elective office.

He's being helped by an extremely partisan, corrupt, and incompetent mainstream press. Fidel Castro had the help of a simple-minded New York Times reporter while he was in the Sierra Maestre, Herbert L. Matthews; Obama has had the unquestioning support of a gang of journos who want to push him into power. Why do they no longer have any journalistic integrity? What happened to the press in recent years?

And now this bad joke of a council, which I learned about from a French-language blog. If it weren't for the blind support of press followers, Obama would rank zero in the polls. (And the President's low ratings, though still far higher than that of the Congress, would be higher if not for consistent press propaganda against him and his policies.) Whatever the AP or the rest of the press write and claim on politics and culture is likely not to be true. And that's not good news for a democracy.

Posted by: Alfred J. Lemire | May 6, 2008 12:13 PM

NOTHING in the USCCB's, Forming Consciences and Faithful Citizenship justifies voting for an candidate who supports infanticide!!! NOTHING!!! You are not Catholics. You are wallowing in self-deceit! You all need to talk to your parish priests about abortion. The US Catholic Bishops said that it's NOT one issue among many to be considered. It must ALWAYS be opposed.

Posted by: Amy | May 18, 2008 11:11 PM