Posted on 09/06/2009 6:27:00 PM PDT by smoothsailing
She’s not crazy.
They already have death panels in Oregon - if you are given bad odds, you don’t get treatment. You get a pill.
This author needs to read more and write less.
What a maroon.
Read the rest of the article. He goes on to say that the government tends to make up things in laws, if there is no specific language prohibiting it—and in some cases, they still make up things even if it’s prohibited.
yeah, crazy like a fox. This guy gets it.
Did you read it all the way through???
Or write more clearly. He does, eventually, get to the point Palin is correct but takes such as torturous route to get there his point is obscured.
At least I think he believes her on target. Read it twice but don't have the stamana to do it again to triple check.
Here we go again with the same talking points that have been refuted a million times.
I can't believe this crap is in the American Thinker.
Guess I’m eating crow, I didn’t read the rest of the article.
Hyperbole is an effective and acceptable tool of argument. The “death panels” reference was hyperbole; but just barely, unfortunately.
Good article, the whole thing. :)
This is one of those cases I think of whenever I hear about " you can't legislate morality". The doctors had a MORAL obligation to treat those men whether or not they had a legal one. Now they would have a legal one. Is that legislating morality?
I deg to biffer! ;^) This author is perfectly eloquent in demonstrating why Palin is correct, and even says she is correct at the end of the article: if not in name, in practice the plan would create death panels.
She's not God either.
“There are but a few steps between government mandated end-of-life counseling, and the “better for all the world” ending of life by government mandates.
Sarah Palin is not crazy.”
Read to the end of the article. The author supports Sarah.
like a FOX, you betcha!
GO SARAH GO!
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil" - Sarah Palin, August 8, 2009SARAH'S FAREWELL SPEECH AS GOVERNOR - GREAT READ
"We face challenging times with some hell-bent on tearing down our nation by perpetuating pessimism and apologizing for America. They suggest that our best days were yesterdays. But how can this pessimism exist? Proof of our greatness and pride is all around us today. We produce proud and great volunteers who sacrifice everything for their country.
"We can resist enslavement to big central government that crushes hope and opportunity. We must be wary of government largesse. It doesnt come free and often accepting it takes away everything that is free. Melting into Washingtons powerful and caretaking arms will only lead to suck away the incentive to work hard and chart our own course. This will only contribute to an unstable economy and dizzying national debt, and it will make us less free.
"We dont have to feel that we must beg an allowance from Washington except to beg the allowance to be self-determined.
"See, in order to be self-sufficient (we) must be allowed to develop, to drill and build and climb to fulfill our promise! We can not start believing that government is the answer. It cant make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise. What can? It is the wisdom of the people and our families and our small businesses and industrious individuals. And it is Gods grace helping those who help themselves." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009
Sarah has now initiated her brilliant flanking manuever against the left, the DNC, the MSM and the RINOs that has them all in a frenzy wondering what her next move will be and how it will be perceived...and has them frothing at the mouth in their efforts to discredit her.
Sarah will now get her book out, go on tour, give speeches and promote conservatie principles all over this country in the midst of the Obama administration disaster and gain great political capital in the process. Then she will support conservative candidates in 2010 and help them win, amassing much more political capital. She will then take all of that and make an awesome, stunning run for the Presidency in 2012.
"...like that grizzly guards her cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. I will keep that vow wherever the road may lead." - Sarah Palin, July 26, 2009
Of course NOT. But these liberals per BamaKennedy in his conference call to his religious base claim a partnership with their god to decided who lives and who dies.
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