Nobody has elected me as the Governor of Florida, with the immense State and Constitutional power and authority of that position. I could travel to Florida with a glass of water, I suppose, and get arrested by Florida's finest like they did to the ten year old boys and girls, but that wouldn't help Terri Schiavo now would it? Especially since they have a SWAT Team and rooftop snipers there. If I had any chance of getting that glass of water in I would do it. Jeb Bush could get her out of there and get her back on sustenance, I could not.
That being said, for years I have been donating money to Terri's legal fund and the Catholic organizations who have been working to keep her alive, and I've prayed for her many many times. And if there was anything else I could do besides sit here and try to shame our lazy and cowardly politicians into actually acting on our behalf as they are elected to do, I would do it.
Oh please, statements like that just make you sound crazy.
You have done well and I commend you for that. And I respect your choice to refrain from launching yourself on a fool's mission that would benefit no one-I made that same choice.
I also respect the Bush brothers for making the same wise choice. We all grieve for Teri and treasure her precious life as much as any life on this earth and cringe in dismay at the thought of her losing this long battle for survival, not to conditions that are beyond the scope of medical science to deal with, but to the wishes of a husband (in name only) who finds her continueing to live an inconvenience, and to the arrogance of a dictatorial Judicial system, that has the unmittigated gall to consider themselves qualified to determine whether a person's quality of life is fit to continue, and given themselves the power to end it if they deem it not to be.
God could have taken care of things with far greater ease than could the Bush brothers. Are you sore at him too?
George and Jeb are Christians and pray over difficult decisions. Are you qualified to say they are not obeying his will?