I knew the RATs would do this. Crocodile tears for Christopher Reeve's death and blame GW. If only stem cell research had gone through 100 per cent! It's GW's fault! He killed poor Christopher Reeve! If they could get people to believe GW was the AntiChrist, they'd try that. Well, that's probably their Oct. surprise.
I haven't read this whole thread yet so I don't know if it's applicable, but...
We can have certain beliefs about Reeve's responsibility for his injury (and I don't believe he ever blamed anyone, it was an accident and sometimes those things happen).
We can also disagree with some of the positions he took in his political activism in the last decade of his life.
BUT - right now is probably not the time to be getting heated about it - he and his family have been through a tremendous loss over this past several years and are entitled to some respect.
I think I made one of the first posts mentioning his death on FR (though I did not post the first or second thread, both of which have been pulled), and I did that because the political implications were worth discussing here.
I think that incidents of distasteful political opportunism should be monitored and TACTFULLY challenged, but we ought to be able to do that in a way that is not disrespectful to the late actor.
Reeve is dead, and we have until the end of time to be critical of his life choices and political leanings. The enemy today, here and now, is Kerry/Edwards and the Democrat campaign, and where we find any of them making political hay out of this is probably what we ought to be discussing here < /my .02 >.
Dave in Eugene
What do we expect...Kerry's stumper today did not say, but implied "Bush is to blame for Reeves death, don't we know that fetus stem-cells would have saved him, but Bush stopped the research, etc...."
If C. Reeves was such a good friend, Kerry would have confined his "sympathy" to a phone call to Reeves widow rather than exploiting his death to take another shot at Bush....