Posted on 08/31/2006 5:33:13 AM PDT by Caleb1411
What you said needs a big... BUMP!!!
I have loads of respect for Hentoff, even though I disagree with him often. He's morally consistent and always makes his case with clarity and reason. It's confounding when you disagree with someone that intelligent and honest. Of course, he's right on the money with this issue.
That's what makes horse races :-) Those with different world-views tend to get opposite positions on political questions. Hentoff, of course, does start from a different world view, but he's also the kind of guy you could debate, and then go have dinner and wine.
It was striking how the traditional hard Left and Right agreed on Terri. Hentoff, Ralph Nader, Tom Harken, Jesse Jackson, among others, used the same words and arguments we did. (How many times would they agree with President Bush, Tom Delay and the pope?)
The mind-set that prevailed, and sent a sweet, innocent woman to her death, does not really fit the old political spectrum. It's a kind of mushy liberalism that has no core principles and believes only in the cause du jour. Nihilist in outlook, fascist in practice. The whole MSM is part of it. The media are a fifth column in America, no doubt about it. And now they preach the message of death.
I had forgotten about Lieberman's stance in the Schiavo case.
One more reason to get out and vote for Joe the Independent.
We folks up here in Connecticut are going to rub the Dems' nose in it for trying to throw Joe Lieberman under the train like that.
He will soar to victory.
I was thinking a good word from Hugo Chavez might give Ned a bump at the polls?
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