Terri Schiavo Before dehydration --- Terri Schiavo Before dehydration
Posted on 03/30/2005 4:07:26 PM PST by churchillbuff
I never had any desire to run for political office, but, if I did, it would be to make a difference.
If I didn't think I could make a difference, what would be the point?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told us last week he just didn't have the power and authority to save one innocent woman forced by court order and armed guard to starve to death in his state.
I don't believe that's true. Not for a minute do I believe it. Jeb Bush blinked. And that weakness that he showed for the whole world should represent the end of his political career.
It's unfortunate, because I believe Jeb Bush knew, deep in his convictions, it was wrong to let Terri Schiavo be murdered by a judge's order.
He even dispatched a team of state law enforcement officers to seize her hours after Judge George Greer refused to listen to his pleadings in the courtroom.
But he backed down. When local cops informed the state officers that they would enforce the judge's order, the agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement stopped.
That's not leadership. That's capitulation.
Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn't have merely dispatched officers to the scene to negotiate with the local cops, he should have led them. He should have personally persuaded those local officers that he was the highest law enforcement official in the state and he was ordering them to stand down.
He should have been a field general, not an armchair general.
He should have walked up to that hospice with overwhelming force behind him.
He should have done so with the whole world watching.
Jeb Bush has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate. But who is going to seriously consider a commander in chief who backs down at the first sign of resistance?
Bush may have been trying to take the safe route in this crisis, but it represents, in my estimation, the end of his political ambitions.
Jeb Bush was tested, and he was found lacking.
He allowed a terribly immoral action to take place in his state and did nothing but huff and puff about it.
And it wasn't the first time.
Say what you will about former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. I think she was a fascist. I think she was a criminal. I think she was possibly stark, raving mad. But she backed up her misguided convictions by sending armed federal agents swooping in to pick up little Elian Gonzalez and take him back to Cuba. It was wrong, but she wasn't afraid.
Back then, Gov. Jeb Bush sat by and watched his authority breached by Washington.
This time, he sat by and watched his authority breached by a puny, little county bureaucrat, a local politician, Judge George Greer.
Does the Florida governor have any authority?
If not, we shouldn't take the position seriously as a stepping stone to higher office. If it does, why didn't he use it when it counted?
I feel sorry for Jeb Bush today.
I think he knew right from wrong in this case but didn't have the courage of his convictions. I think he listened to all the wrong advisers. I think he will carry regrets about Terri Schiavo to his grave.
He could have been a hero. He could have been a leader.
Instead, he appears weak. Instead, he appears to vacillate.
My wife told me: "If Jeb Bush had done the right thing for Terri, I would have given up six months of my life to campaign for him. I would have done anything to help him."
I'm sure many people feel like that. Let me ask you today: Is anyone excited about the possibility of a third Bush administration?
You really are more than confused, sweetums.
I'm already married and I have no interest in leaving my husband.
And IF you are single, I understand WHY that is.
Don't shot the messager, every governmental enitity involed was controlled by the (pro-life) GOP, top to bottom.
I have seen a few I am certain, they don't argument Rats positions, they argue GOP positions in the most offensive insulting manner posible just to piss off Freeper and lurkers.
Terri Schiavo Before dehydration ---
Are you good a spoting trolls? I think I found one and will frepmail you if your are interested.
Aside from taking out your frustrations on the keyboard, what have you done for Terri Schiavo? Unless you have performed some arbitrary, potentially violent, illegal and futile act to assist Terri Schiavo in this hour you are (by your own definition) a COWARD!
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What have I done for Terri? Not enough! But I've spent hundreds of hours on the Net sending thousands of emails and related documents to hundreds of politicians... and spent hundreds of dollars on phone calls... all to no effect regarding Terri's constitutionally guaranteed freedoms !!!
Further... I would have been at the hospice in physical support too, but I'm a paraplegic, and with other health problems too, hence I'm stuck in this handicapped apartment. Yeah... I'm another one of those "useless eaters"!!!
Finally... there is NO REASON why Jeb could not start a criminal investigation in this matter... considering that the whole thing REEKS with criminal acts at every level... and then IMMEDIATELY take Terri into protective custody !!!
But Jeb is a GUTLESS COWARD !!!
Another hint...you've long ago lost the debate completely and utterly.
Third hint...eat a pastry and leave the debate to those with more than your 3 working brain cells. ;^)
Protester Jeff Asmussen, of Silver Bay, Minnesota, is all alone as he keeps a vigil outside the Woodside Hospice, where brain damaged Florida woman Terri Scghiavo is being cared for, in Pinellas Park, Florida, early March 27, 2005. A wrenching dispute over the fate of Schiavo neared its end Sunday as she moved closer to death and her parents gave up their long and bitter legal battle to prolong her life. REUTERS/Bob Jordan
And if,as I suspect, you'll send me my own nic; don't send me any FREEPmail, or I'll report you.
Thanks for the explanation. :)
there was never a debate...
you were born wrong...
did you look up untermenchen? Hint...its not english...or GW's favorite language: spanish.
They never are. Funnier yet, is that these jokers will try to tell you that they're the "base". My eye.
did you say don't send freep mail?
LOL! That's funny! I thought we were talking about killing the people in a PVS, like Terri.
No,I wasn't "born wrong" at all;unlike you.
Nobody here wants the people in a PVS to be murdered.
So, with that said, let's get cracking on overturning laws that allow it on a state by state level, via the legislative process. Whaddya say? Are you game?
Get yourself someone to read and explain the written English word to you. :-)
I'm already married and I have no interest in leaving my husband
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Oak Hay... then send my panties back !!! ;-))
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