Posted on 03/31/2005 4:49:44 AM PST by Saundra Duffy
You know what, instead of blaming Jeb for not pulling a Reno, how about changing hearts and minds on the culture of death..
While Terri lies dying the most heinous death imaginable, Jeb Bush is enjoying meals, drinks and life. While Terri lies suffering and dying and her family rejected and abused. Jeb Bush continues to do NOTHING!
This article is "spot on". Thank you. I thought so, too. It's written by an ordinary man about ordinary people. I loved it. I love "Mack".
The article is about his political future. Jeb blinked, whether for good reasons or not, and the fire went out of the belly of many who would otherwise support him in the future.
That's quite different than what you inferred.
"Mack" is my kinda guy. Jeb Bush is a coward.
They all want to have plugs pulled and cords stepped on, so they say. They're all a-twitter with the idea that the few bucks in their "estates" would be eaten up before their northern-living adult kids could get any of it. Plus, they don't want to be a "burden" to their adult kids who visit them once a year during beach season.
Jeb may have more of a pulse on Florida folks than one might think. If he could find a pulse on half of them, that is.
Leni
And by default help elect more pro-culture of death democrats, real smart.
'Xactly.
You won't find me voting for a man who doesn't have the moral courage to save a woman from being murdered.
We have all had to sit here everyday and watch as Terri is starved to death.
It's driven some people over the edge, they have resorted to violence trying to find a way to do something, anything to stop this inhumane killing of a handicapped woman.
I'm so angry and disgusted that I've been forced to participate in the practice of concentration camps.
He should have done what he needed to do and to heck with political fallout. Sometimes we are called upon to make a stand for human decency. I believe he, among others failed Terri and our Country.
So this guy would kill police and bystanders to "save" a woman who is, for all practical purposes, already dead. Jeb did the best he could and 2/3rds of Florida is already mad at him. If Jeb did somehting like that, he would be recalled in a heartbeat.
Greer is a madman. Jeb Bush has the power to stop him. Never forget: Florida Dept of Children and Families has outstanding charges against Michael Schiavo that need to be investigated but Jeb Bush will NOT demand an investigation. He's letting the evidence (Terri) be destroyed right before our very eyes. He is going to pay a heavy price for this. A heavy price.
I'll take "Mack's" word against yours any day. I'll take "Mack's" word against any EXPERT you throw up. "Mack" is where it's at and you think he's a nut. Ha!
A discussion that needs to be had: what can be done with a corrupt legal system, when it is Hell-bent on killing an innocent woman?
I heard the usually almost supernaturally-even-tempered Hugh Hewitt actually shout a guy off his show yesterday. He did not let the guy make his case, he just cut him off, told him he was nuts, and told him to shut up.
The guy was advocating that the judge's orders should be disregarded, and whatever needed to be done should be done to override them.
Now, I'm not saying I agree with that perspective. But I'd like to hear it really discussed; and I have some hard questions I'd like to ask.
One I'd've asked Hugh (and maybe you) is, "If not now, then when? What would be 'going too far,' and what would we do about it?" Here is a judge, NOT in a criminal trial, ordering the slow, miserable, degrading torture-death of an innocent and helpless woman. The whole nation sits and watches. Some idiots make jokes or defend the status quo. Others wring our hands and do what we can — which, as it turns out, isn't bloody much. But how far is too far? When is talking not enough? If not this case, then which?
Those are just a few of my questions, and I have many more. Like how are we different from the "good Germans" of Hitler's day? What moral perspective do we have from which we can, ever again, criticize them? Would our Fathers have tolerated this? I honestly wonder what people like Hugh — whose perspective I always value — would have been saying in 1775, 1776. Would they have been advocating dur process, calmness, orderliness?
Honestly, I am not asking these as leading questions, because the God's honest truth is, I don't know the answer. But this gnaws at me, eats at me, through the day, and while I don't think that the Bush brothers and the legislatures have done nothing, I still am haunted with the feeling that they've not done enough, that there MUST have been something more they could have done -- that the nation that can free two whole countries in a few years' time could have rescued one helpless woman from a miserable death we literally would not permit to a dog.
So you would have the Governor disregard andy court decision he does not agree with? What is the alternative? Do away with courts and have the President or Governor decide legal matters? Or appoint people that will rule based on their personal opinions and feelings rather than neutrally interpret the law. Sorry, but I don't support building biased courts.
That still doesn't change the fact that Jeb Bush is more electable that the Klayman, Keyes, Buchanan and Randall Terry.
Regardless of what you, the Baptists and "Mack" think.
That stunt alone let the world know just what Jeb was, a true politician.That press conference will be the undoing of Jeb just as Terri's death will be the undoing of the Death Trio.
To me courts have to be fair and balanced.. It should not lean one way.
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