You can't say that! But I can.

Don't you just love letters to the editor? What other place can people display their ignorance so prominently? I especially like those letters of righteous indignation where the writer presents a logical argument that it's not right to judge others, but that's what his whole letter is.

Take for example a letter by Kristy Moore of Paris. Kristy didn't like a column by Tommy Felts that explained his reasons for not voting for Barack Obama. She found his words concerning Obama's pro-abortion stand "offensive."

Now let's see if Kristy has a logical argument, or if she's all over the map with her reasoning.

• She says an abortion decision is deemed responsible by some and irresponsible by others. Both, she says, are right. Impossible!
• "Never ever should such a private and extremely personal decision be weighed by someone else other than the person having to make that decision," she says. Then in the next sentences she says that those women who find themselves in the clinic year after year are "profoundly wrong" -- they shouldn't be using abortion as birth control. But she just said, "Never ever should . . . someone other than the person having to make that decision" judge it. That is, unless it happens to be Kristy, herself -- she's got that right!
• Then she says, "Late term abortions should be illegal." But, she says, she won't stand in judgment of those people. Didn't she just do that?
• Back to the second bullet point -- she talked about those women using abortion as birth control and finding themselves in the clinic time after time. Go down a paragraph or two and she says of abortion, "The toll it takes on that woman alone keeps them from ever having a repeat visit." Contradiction?
• Then she appeals to our patriotism -- "We as Americans applaud how fortunate we are that we are able to make choices in this country. Why should this choice be decided by a state's politics or a president's views? It shouldn't." I wonder if Kristy's ever heard of NAMBLA? NAMBLA is an organization of pedophiles -- it stands for the North American Man Boy Love Association. They think having sex with little boys should be their choice -- that there is nothing wrong with what they do. They agree with Kristy completely -- "Why should this choice be decided by a state's politics or a president's views? It shouldn't." I wonder if Kristy agrees with them.

"Decision to vote is personal." The Paris News; November 4, 2008; p. 4.