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Fred and Terri tar baby entries keep rolling in. This one is side by side with more Obama Nation.

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Fred's Schiavo do-over

"Obviously, I know about the Terri Schiavo case. I had to face a situation with that in my own personal life with my own daughter," Fred Thompson told reporters. But last month, the GOP hopeful said he didn't know enough to talk about the right-to-die case in Florida, where it occurred and where it is still a major issue.

Campaign takeout

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This is more than a Fred and Terri redux. In this case, the contributer delves deeper with an interesting brain scan, not that of Terri, in the link.

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I respect Fred Thompson a LOT. But, I was frankly a bit put off by this recent comment about Schiavo-type situations:

I know this is bandied about as a political issue, and people want to make it such and talk about it in the public marketplace a lot. I am a little bit uncomfortable about that, because it's an intensely personal thing with me. These things need to be decided by the family.

Erick here at Redstate praised these remarks by Thompson, but I would be more cautious.

People who say that the government should stay out of situations like the Schiavo situation are being naive and simplistic. In the Schiavo situation, the parents wanted one thing, and the husband wanted another thing. In such a situation, the government must intervene. And that's what the government finally did in the Schiavo situation; it intervened to forcibly prevent the parents from taking custody of their daughter.......................

Schiavo Once Again

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