Posted on 07/31/2006 4:58:07 PM PDT by Quiet Man Jr.
This is a wonderful quote, but you probably didn't see the wisdom inherent in your comment when you typed it up.
I made my point. To compare a full-time, media-created professional protester and ninny like Sheehan to a grieving father with a fair complaint against one politician, is nutsy.
That's where you are wrong. He does not have a fair complaint.
The ultra-conservatives in FL are trying to make several races into 2 issue contests, and Mr. Schindler is a willing participant readily using his daughter's name to support a political position. My once massive sympathy for him wanes every time he injects himself politically.
You can convince yourself there is no difference and you will still be wrong. The tragedy of her death, the despicableness of Michael Schiavo - those issues are going to be lost forever when you insist on placing blame where it cannot logically or rationally be placed and when it is done with clear political motivations.
If and when Mr. Schindler realizes that he is being used by the irrational Buchannen right to injur the GOP and Mr. Crist I hope he will do the right thing.
NEVER???? You missed some of the best comedy...EVER.
And gave me a good laugh too :-) The media lapped up their news out of George Felos's cupped hands. They were his puppy dogs. They bought his lines every time. Even George marveled at how easily he could gull them and have them report his assertions as medical "facts."
Oh, pooh. If Bob Schindler turns into a full-time professional protestor and wins the hearts of the media and starts to hug people like Hugo Chavez, I will admit I misjudged him. And buy you a beer.
It would have cost very little money for the Schindler to have cared for their daughter in their own home. People who have no personal knowledge of feeding tubes do not know anything about feeding tubes at all, as far as I can tell. The devices are VERY SIMPLE and inexpensive when handled in a home setting. The Schindlers probably could have fed Terri soft foods and used the tube for a supplement. Yes, I know Terri's "doctors" said she would be unable to swallow, but she was not allowed anything soft.
Exactly!
Right. Being in a hospice was not the place for Terri to begin with - just a place where MS had free reign while shouting 'when is the $itch going to die'. After all, he denied her everything that would help her, her loved ones, sunshine, therapy, music, etc. - worse than a prison and she hung on and wouldn't give him what HE wanted - to die.
I would not have awarded him a penny. Just because I don't consider him a killer doesn't make him a hero to me.
The Lord would not encourage lost causes but would welcome Terri home rather than have her left in a living hell.
And who paid for the years of care?
You must have been hysterical reading the autopsy report.
Your hope will not be fulfilled.
Please, take the time to explain to me how those details are in any way linked to his ability to circumvent an ongoing court case?
What do his comments about the judges AFTER THE FACT, or the attendance of Janet Reno and he at the same dinner have to do with his ability to act at the time? President Bush has been seen with Bill Clinton smiling, in pictures. Ronald Reagan was seen in many pictures smiling and laughing with Jimmy Carter.
Your arguments are disjointed and nonsensical.
What the heck did you people want him to do that he actually had the legal authority and power to make happen? Remember for a moment that the state legislature passed a law to protect her, the governor signed it, Crist offered an opinion of constitutionality, and that was NOT ENOUGH. Legislative and executive action were NOT ENOUGH. People with more authority and power than he could do NOTHING. It was a pending case and the judiciary maintained exclusive jurisdiction.
Why, please tell me, is it unreasonable for a state AG to take the position that a case pending before the courts is out of his jurisdiction, and that the right thing to do is to let the system play itself out? Doing anything else would have been to ursuro his own authority, probably that of the governor as well, and he would have been slapped down in the process making the case a further political spectacle, and accomplishing nothing on behalf of Teri.
You people want a scapegoat. You are angry, you are hurt, you are looking for revenge. Fine - all normal emotional reactions to loss. But you seem to have forgotten - she had a husband who made the decision - his name is Michael. That is where this fight began and it is where responsibility for her death ends.
Without MAN intervening she would have been dead before we even heard about it. MS did not cause her injuries though it is a favorite whack job theory that he did. Somehow the gigantic conspiracy was able to hide his guilt from the law. Oh, I forget the law was part of the conspiracy.
In the Lord, there are no lost causes.
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