{"id":828,"date":"2008-06-23T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T16:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=263"},"modified":"2008-06-23T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T16:36:04","slug":"62308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"6\/23\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our pit stop back home in Cleveland, I painted a room in a neighbor’s home that they set aside for foster children. \u00a0 This couple is involved with the Catholic Worker outreach to the poor here. \u00a0 They aggressively lobby to maintain low income housing for the disadvantaged in the area. \u00a0 And both are strong peace activists. \u00a0 In fact, one of their bumper stickers says: \u00a0 “War is terrorism — with a bigger budget.”<\/strong> \u00a0 …Speaking of terrorism: \u00a0 We then headed back out, stopping first in Fremont, Ohio, where I gave a talk at St. Joseph’s Church on abortion. \u00a0 (During Campaign 2004 I said to the Range News<\/em> \u00a0 in Arizona that with abortion “…we’ve become our own worst terrorists.”<\/em>) \u00a0 During the talk in Fremont, I said little babies being dismembered and decapitated in the womb \u00a0at nearby Toledo abortion clinics \u00a0should be front page news in the Toledo Blade<\/em>, \u00a0 every day! \u00a0 But it’s just that we’ve become so<\/em> \u00a0 tremendously decensitized to it… \u00a0 We then did a downtown whistle-stop event in Sandusky, Ohio. \u00a0 The Sandusky Register<\/em> photographer taking pictures this day was a former student at the Christopher Program in Columbus, an alternative high school. \u00a0 Some four years prior, I had talked in his Political Science Class. \u00a0 That semester each student had been allowed out of school twice a week to work on an issue or candidate’s campaign for the then upcoming 2004 Election. \u00a0 As president I would lobby for more of these types of classes to heighten political enthusiasm among the young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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