I just want to apologize for all the “unrelenting personal attacks launched from right-wing Catholic [though it's not limited to that, of course] keyboards-blogs (and bloggers) so coarse and uncivil they make the insults of talk radio sound like actual journalism” that have got you so down right now.

I also want to apologize for “right-wing” zealots’ inability to overlook Obama’s pro-abortion positions, which, as you have said, “obscure[s] what Obama shares with the church: concern for the poor; support for the average family; a commitment to ending an unjust war; and respect for our environment.” (Ooh, and with regard to the second-to-last one of those points: I suppose I should apologize to you on behalf of the Obama administration for their decision to abandon you on that one).

The biggest apology I owe you, though, is for all the talk on the blogosphere about Obama and the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA), which would, if passed, “completely nullify the national ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court upheld on April 18 in Gonzales v. Carhart.” I know you’re sick of hearing right-wing fearmongers like us attempt to link Obama to FOCA, even hinting at it being a top priority for his new administration.

You cleared up the matter for us with your very plain, unmistakable statement that this is all in our heads when you wrote, “Blog lies to the contrary, there is no real legislative interest in FOCA.”

Again, I humbly apologize for mischaracterizing the icoming administration’s interest in the abortion-legalization bill. All I can say in my (and our) defense is that it wasn’t our idea in the first place; we got it from this guy: