Posted on 04/27/2005 6:35:43 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
"Compassionate" liberals? You wouldn't get that impression from the hate spewed from Democratic Underground upon the news of Laura Ingraham being diagnosed with breast cancer.
"nonews" posts a thread stating: "Laura Ingraham has breast cancer, Let's keep her in our prayers.
"nothingshocksmeanymore" responds: "No. Cancer isn't a good thing, but it's her problem. I fell no obligation to pray for people who make the world worse.
Several others post similar comments.
Then "ElizabethEdwards" responds to "nothingshocksmeanymore":
"Of course we wish the best for her in this fight.
I have been a Democrat for a long time, and part of the Democratic principles that attracted me as a young person and kept me a Democrat all these years is our compassion. Democrats are simply good and decent people. And good and decent people want everyone to do well -- those who agree with them and those who do not. We fight for the right of voices with which we disagree to speak out, for the right of people to say things we don't believe to be true, even for the right to be malicious and mean-spirited. If we fight for the right for LI to say what she says, how in the world can we use our disagreement with those words as an excuse not to be compassionate in her fight with cancer. Being willing to have her voice muted by illness is the same thing as not wanting her voice to be heard. It is not Democratic or democratic.
I hope others will join me in wishing her Godspeed in this fight, for the easiest road that she can have, and even for the development of compassion about others who have faced hardship and disease without the support network she -- and I -- have. As I go through treatment for this same disease, I think often about the women who fight breast cancer without health insurance, without a supportive husband, with a physically demanding job that doesn't know or doesn't care that she is exhausted and weak and aching, with children but no child care. I find it absolutely impossible that LI won't also have those thoughts run through her head or that she won't rethink her position on health care or the social safety net. Pray for her health AND her enlightenment, if you must. But pray, with me, for her good health."
You would think this post from the legendary "ElizabethEdwards" might help change the tone. But it doesn't.
Later in the same thread, Marnieworld states: "She's another Ann Coulter. David Brock wrote much about Ingrahm in "Blinded by the Right." She is part of everything evil in the GOP since the revolution in the late 80s. F*** Laura Ingrahm. F*** her.
So much for "compassion".
Read it for yourself at: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3545777#3545787
Well, Michael Moore was probably more responsible for President Bush's election than Rush. Something about a fat, ugly, lying leftist propagandist shouting from the rooftops that Bush is evil probably turned more people to Bush than it's intended purpose. Moore is an asset of the right, at least in the sense that he's a liability to the left; he whips up the left, enticing them to look even more ludicrous (if that's even possible), all the while steeling the right, and convincing those fence-riders along the way that they don't want to have anything to do with what THAT guy is selling.
I wouldn't wish Moore ill at all. I'd hope for a speedy recovery, and hope that he has an '08 "prop-u-mentary" in the works.
Wow, someone with a shred of honesty. How refreshing. It seems no one else wants to fess up.
I remember pinging the prayer warriors to Senator Wellstone's thread...as well as Hillary and Bill clinton's. There have been others too.
I would, too. However, I would not wish cancer on my worst enemy. My husband had Multiple Myeloma, and suffered through two peripheral blood stem cell transplants. He died four years ago, 2 1/2 years after he was diagnosed. He suffered terribly. No, I would wish Michael Moore well in his fight if he had cancer.
"However, I would not wish cancer on my worst enemy."
We are supposedly no better than DU because we see their wicked bootlicking of a terrorist pardoner, a crack dealer pardoner, a Chinagate initiator, and an all-around bad guy. We're no better because we don't like a party that hypocritically honors a former klansman to this day. I'll be honest: I wouldn't care if the Clintons burned in hell forever. I know too much about them. But I would pray for most of their flunkies, including those DUmmies, if I knew they had cancer.
Yeah, I guess that makes us no better than them, huh? I never made jokes about Mrs. Edwards, although I do make jokes about Nadler the Hutt and Barney Frank. So what? That's the same as not wanting to pray for a cancer victim? What is it with some FReepers?
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