Posted on 03/26/2008 11:45:00 AM PDT by rhema
In none of the endless presidential candidates' debates has there been a meaningful discussion of the rights of disabled Americans. However, in the Feb. 26 debate in Cleveland, Barack Obama casually and ignorantly revealed his misunderstanding of the basic issue in the highly visible and still-resonating official death sentence of a disabled woman, Terri Schiavo. I have repeatedly called her death the result of "the longest public execution in American history."
When moderator Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton and Obama if "there are any words or votes that you'd like to take back ... in your careers in public service," Obama answered that in his first year in the Senate, he joined an agreement "that allowed Congress to interject itself (in the Schiavo case) into the decision-making process of the families."
Obama added: 'I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better."
When he was a professor of constitutional law, Obama probably instructed his students to research and know all the facts of a case. The reason Congress asked the federal courts to review the Schiavo case was that the 41-year-old woman about to be dehydrated and starved to death was breathing normally on her own, was not terminal, and there was medical evidence that she was responsive, not in a persistent vegetative state.
One of the leading congressional advocates of judicial review was staunchly liberal Democratic Tom Harkin of Iowa, because he is deeply informed about disability rights. By contrast, in all of this inflamed controversy, the mainstream media performed miserably, copying each other's errors instead of doing their own investigations of what Terri's wishes actually were. Consequently, most Americans did not know that 29 major national disability-rights organizations filed legal
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May Terri RIP. I wonder how she can when she continues to be a politcal football, but she IS with the Lord now and feels no pain now.
Hentoff is very Liberal, and he likes the ACLU a lot more than I do — but he understands the Right to Life. And he knows his jazz, too.
Ping to a thread by rhema.
I still have no understanding of how the people concerned about Terri Schiavo plan to prevent it from happening again.
All they do is talk, and yell at people like me.
What most amazes me about this presidential race is that no one is talking about the fact that Obama represents the first pro-infanticide presidential candidate. He’s on the record, having voted four times against the “Infants Born-Alive Protection Act.” It’s stunning.
If any of these politicians want to make amends, they can go to Delaware in two weeks (it’s less than an hour from Philly) and try to save Lauren Richardson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964275/posts
Any idiot can tell us how it SHOULD have been handled three years ago, let’s see what they are willing to do RIGHT NOW.
If he is physically able, I would bet even money Nat will be there. And he is not nearly as liberal as people think him to be. His is still one of the sharper minds in journalism today, albeit he is a warrior from a bygone era when the democrap party actually stood for something and had a trace of moral fiber.
I think you’re right. It’s not looking good for Lauren, the hearing is on April 2nd and from comments the judge has made it appears that he is going to side with the mother (she has hired Jon Eisenberg who was one of Michael Schiavo’s attorneys).
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060877347/The_Right_vs_the_Right_to_Die/index.aspx
Did Jeremiah Wrong sermonize on how to treat the disabled? Did Obama learn his compassion from him?
Michael Schiavo pulled off the murder of the century, with willing participants from at least 20 judges (according to the article). And Obama has now joined the side of the executioners.
Yep, never before in history has someone announced to the entire world that he planned to murder his wife and then proceeded to draw it out for weeks with the entire world watching.
Obama was ALWAYS on the side of the executioners. In Illinois he voted multiple times AGAINST a law that made it a crime for babies who were aborted and still lived to be born to then be killed.
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