Thank you both for your responses.
First of all, I want to make it clear that I in no way meant to take Giffords to task here. I am sorry that I didn’t make that clear and it could have been construed that I was.
Your points about Giffords not being cognizant may have been rather sound. If that is the case, it would seem a hard choice to make, if you were to refuse her the honor. Her refusing it would be one thing. Someone else doing it on her behalf, even if for a good reason, would be much more difficult.
Borax Queen, I could have sworn I saw one interview where Giffords seemed quite lucid, if still not in full control of her physical side. I know I was looking for signs of her current condition. That being said, I may still have missed signs that were there I suppose.
I do appreciate both of your responses, and the opportunity to clarify my thoughts on Giffords moral obligations. I do acknowledge the incapacity factor, and appreciate you both for mentioning it.
Hi Doughty One —
Oh, please don’t apologize, but thank you. I’m in her district and could fill pages writing about what I’ve observed. I’m not at all happy about the taxation without representation for the last year + — but everything that was in the media DID make it seem like Giffords was lucid, so I completely don’t blame you or anyone for thinking Giffords should have spoken up. Even knowing what I think I know, I myself have made statements about her integrity (before and after January 2011).
That particular interview — assuming we’re thinking of the ABC one (as far as I know, the only one she did) was highly scripted, staged, and edited. She can move her one side, but her handlers (adulterer husband, best friend Wasserman, or some of the campaign staff) always have to be near her to lift her other side/arm as needed. She wears a brace on her fingers. As a PT explained to me, she won’t be regaining the use of that hand/fingers.
The political class of moochers and elites receive the finest medical care and round-the-clock coaching. For us, the peasants, Giffords had deliberately voted against the vast majority and forced us into DeathCare. Just a “pill” for us if we’re a “unit” (over 70).
The staff tried to make it seem like Giffords was present within a few months. They pulled tricks like sending Twitters from pretend Gabby, adding Facebook entries as if Gabby wrote them, moving the district office that had been there as long as I can remember (a couple of decades) to a more remote spot, and always telling us “Giffords said so and so,” Giffords said that.”
Giffords never did address her constituents directly, herself.
The whole thing was staged to make her seem better. Who knows why, money? lifetime benefits? job security for the staff? placeholder for the next Dem? But it was shady and crooked.
They even pasted audio tapes together to make it seem as if Giffords herself were speaking in paragraphs. The book that “she wrote”? One page was hers, and I’m not sure how many words on that page, or if she even said them.
Looking from a distance, anyone would think that Giffords is back to a reasonable level of awareness.
Seeing their tricks and lies over the last year plus, I’m pretty sure she’s still only around 5-10 years old.
The evil rotten leftists never stop their tricks.
And, if the situation were reversed, I’m fairly certain that Giffords would have milked the husband. Theirs was always just another political marriage.
(Sorry for this long post, I tried to cut myself off.)