While all childrens' deaths are sad, not all liberals are genuinely sad about their own childrens' deaths...liberals have killed many of their own pre-born children by "choice," for example.
Another example, one seared into my memory (and it's a genuine memory, unlike John Kerry's), is of a well-educated liberal couple whose only child suffered a brain injury in an accident.
Although the boy was conscious and alert and making progress in children's rehabilitation center, these parents "chose" to "let him die" by refusing permission for him to be treated with antibiotics when he got an infection from his trach tube.
Perhaps they were too embarrassed to be encumbered by a brain-injured child -- the way Joe Kennedy Sr. was too embarrassed to be encumbered with his retarded daughter.
So while I make no comment on this devastated mother --whose son has just been murdered, not "lost" to a disease or injury-- I will comment on your attempt to throw the typical leftist argument that "conservatives are heartless and mean-spirited and don't understand grief the way we liberals do."
I've seen you do this before on FR: Using your "lost child" story to deflect or pre-empt criticism. If you've actually lost a child --and not by "choice"-- my heart goes out to you. But anyone can post anything anonymously; and even if the story is true, I find it less than honorable to use a story about a lost child in repeated ad hominem attacks on conservatives.
” I will comment on your attempt to throw the typical leftist argument that “conservatives are heartless and mean-spirited and don’t understand grief the way we liberals do.”
Please show me where I said conservatives are heartless and mean. In addition, it’s bad form to put quotes around something I didn’t actually say. People reading your post and not mine would most likely assume I used those exact words. I did not.
SOME Freepers most certainly are mean-spirited, as are quite a few DUers. I should have been more clear in this most recent comment that it was NOT a about conservatives but rather about ANY blockhead who thinks somebody facing what this woman is facing should react in any predetermined way. More than likely, this woman had no idea what she said to the reporter.
“Although the boy was conscious and alert and making progress in children’s rehabilitation center, these parents “chose” to “let him die” by refusing permission for him to be treated with antibiotics when he got an infection from his trach tube.”
Even IF this story is true (see, I can play that game, too — as you said, anybody can post anything anonymously, and this story sounds highly suspect to me), exactly what does it have to do with the situation we were discussing? Nobody here has even the slightest idea whether this woman is liberal or conservative or something else, but there seems to be little question that she did NOT choose to have her son die.
I won’t even dignify your other comments.