Bill Patrie's Sept. 9 letter proclaims that we here in good old North Dakota should vote for Obama because he is committed to understanding and working issues that affect our rural communities, among which are health care, the economy, the war in Iraq, agriculture, schools, low wages, and on and on. I read the letter a couple of times, searching for one of those "major issues" Patrie seemed to miss, but to my chagrin it wasn't there.

How can Patrie, I wonder, place all those "major issues" ahead of abortion, of which Obama is a supporter? Obama's record says he's not only pro-choice, he's pro-abortion. And we should vote for this? Omigosh.

This mindset that the killing of our babies is not a "major issue" among people like Mr. Patrie has weakened America. Let us first support life. How can anything else be as important as that?