Posted on 08/31/2006 5:33:13 AM PDT by Caleb1411
Among the celebrities journeying to Connecticut to support Ned Lamont's campaign to unseat Sen. Joseph Lieberman (now running as an independent, having lost the Democratic primary to Lamont) is Michael Schiavo, known around the world as the husband who finally succeeded in having the feeding tube removed from his late wife, Terri Schiavo.
Schiavo pointedly reminded Connecticut voters that Sen. Lieberman has supported the president and Congressional Republicans in passing emergency legislation involving federal courts in an attempt to save Terri Schiavo's life while he, Michael Schiavo, was respecting her wishes — which she could no longer communicate — to die.
Connecticut voters were not informed that Democrats as well as Republicans were in favor of intervention by federal courts — including Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, who is deeply knowledgeable about disability rights.
Nor, of course, did Schiavo, while on the hustings, mention that when the feeding tube was removed, Terri Schiavo was not terminal, was breathing naturally on her own — and, according to several of the neurologists who had examined her (others disagreed), was not in a persistent vegetative state. And not only her parents and siblings witnessed that though she could not speak, Terri was responsive.
I covered the Terri Schiavo case for more than four years, going against nearly all of the other media in emphasizing and documenting that this was not a "right to die" case, but a disability-rights case. And that's why many leading disability-rights organizations filed legal briefs — unreported by most of the press — on her behalf.
Terri Schiavo was indeed brain-damaged, but her husband had stopped all testing and rehabilitation for her in 1993 (Terri died in March 2005). For years, Michael Schiavo — while "devoted" to his wife's wishes — was living with another woman, with whom he
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What you said needs a big... BUMP!!!
I have loads of respect for Hentoff, even though I disagree with him often. He's morally consistent and always makes his case with clarity and reason. It's confounding when you disagree with someone that intelligent and honest. Of course, he's right on the money with this issue.
That's what makes horse races :-) Those with different world-views tend to get opposite positions on political questions. Hentoff, of course, does start from a different world view, but he's also the kind of guy you could debate, and then go have dinner and wine.
It was striking how the traditional hard Left and Right agreed on Terri. Hentoff, Ralph Nader, Tom Harken, Jesse Jackson, among others, used the same words and arguments we did. (How many times would they agree with President Bush, Tom Delay and the pope?)
The mind-set that prevailed, and sent a sweet, innocent woman to her death, does not really fit the old political spectrum. It's a kind of mushy liberalism that has no core principles and believes only in the cause du jour. Nihilist in outlook, fascist in practice. The whole MSM is part of it. The media are a fifth column in America, no doubt about it. And now they preach the message of death.
I had forgotten about Lieberman's stance in the Schiavo case.
One more reason to get out and vote for Joe the Independent.
We folks up here in Connecticut are going to rub the Dems' nose in it for trying to throw Joe Lieberman under the train like that.
He will soar to victory.
I was thinking a good word from Hugo Chavez might give Ned a bump at the polls?
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