Posted on 10/12/2004 9:32:26 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Make that 3+ decades not 4.
This may sound presumptuous, but I'll bet Charles Krauthammer is a far bigger man today than he would have been if he had never been disabled.
Holy crap! Krauthammer is a doctor and has been in a chair for years?! I've been reading his columns for ages, and I had no idea of either.
This double standard nonsense is really wearing thin. If I ran Bush's campaign the American people would see commercial after commercial showing those planes crashing into the buildings. That's the only political message voters need to see.
And I am willing to agree with you. My own father was paralyzed at the age of 37 and he wasn't expected to live 24 hours. He lived 9 yrs. You never saw such determination in a man. I have witnessed firsthand the inspiration that these people give and the desire they have.
All who can walk normal should count our blessings.
He was in either an auto accident or diving accident at the age of 28. I have yet to find which it was.
He is (or, was, prior to his career as a political commentator) a psychiatrist.
A very close family friend was paralyzed from the chest down over 10 years ago....
His Dr. told him "You can probably do all the things you used to do, you just have to figure out how to do it on wheels".
Well, he went back to work at the power company (as a trouble shooter instead of a lineman), still rides his Harley, got stopped for going over 100 on his bike at 1am, helped build his carport, beat the snot out of a biker in a bar, drives a tractor for his dad, plays tennis and he even got married. He has a party every year the day of his accident. And he is still the same pain-in-the-rear good ole boy he was the day the accident happened.
'cept on wheels.
I never knew he was blind until a couple of years ago when there was a story in the news about some kind of potential cure for a certain type of blindness. He happened to call the station that day, and the host of the radio show (who obviously knew a bit about him) asked what he thought of it and how it might help cure his disability.
The caller said he didn't think he was disabled at all -- and pointed out all of the things he did as a blind man (he was an avid talk radio fan, listened to lots of books on tape, loved classical music and jazz, etc.) that he probably never would have done otherwise. When he pointed out that most of his childhood friends spent time in prison, you couldn't help but think this was a very blessed man.
Krauthammer has the correct perspective. Early on, Reeve willingly and desperately became a pawn for those who pushed abortion and the genocide of the unborn.
If Kerry and Edwards would be elected, Krauthhammer would be walking within a year.
You missed the point. If Kerry/Edwards are elected, FDR and Elvis would be walking within a year.
There will be a lot of people like that walking to the polls to vote Rat.
In fact, the next Kerry/Edwards campaign ad will feature Christopher Reeve rising from his coffin to ask permission from the U.N.!
I shouldn't laugh.
But that was damn funny! :-)
god bless him
He's also a psychiatrist. (Psychiatrists have to have an M.D. before training.)
I had no idea he was in a wheelchair either, until a few years ago, when he accepted a speaking engagement that was telecast on CSPAN and he wheeled himself out to the microphone. Krauthammer is a personal asset to my knowledge of foreign affairs, because Krauthammer knows his stuff, and I just absorb every article of his.
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