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Thompson gives no opinion on Schiavo
Associated Press ^ | September 14, 2007 | BRENDAN FARRINGTON

Posted on 09/14/2007 6:16:30 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: mnehrling

Way to go check the record. This creates some context. I don’t know who I will support in GOP primaries, but I do hope that analysis of candidates, at least here at FR will be on issues and not attacks.

As an aside, I think each poster should disclose his/her favorite candidate (if he/she has one) so that biases will be disclosed. Disclosing one’s biases, by the way, doesn’t make one’s point wrong, but it does point to what may be its motivation.


21 posted on 09/14/2007 6:46:39 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: presidio9
I like this reply by Fred.

It signals that he will not allow the President to be some organ-grinder's monkey for the press.

If he doesn't feel like extemporaneously opining on some complex issue, then, fine.

For crying out loud, the whole campaigning process, let alone the whole political culture, has devolved into the press just trying to trick the candidate into saying something he is not prepared to say.

Clinton took one route to deal with this problem as president, which was to just say babbling bull$hit all the time: platitudes like, "There's enough right about the country to fix what's wrong about the country," and other concatenations of cant and sheer words without meaning -- except, of course, when he was lying, dissembling or prevaricating.

Fred is taking more the FDR route... FDR would say stuff like, "I don't have anything to say about that today," which he would rectify when and if he chose to at a later date.

The Constitution says that the President is supposed to report to Congress "from time to time", not in ridiculous daily press conferences or monthly or whatever.

The worst thing about the Presidency now is that the press are allowed in to the White House at all. Fred ought to boot them all out of the White House and turn the press briefing room back into a bowling alley or a swimming pool or whatever Nixon had it as.

Throw the press out, regain some dignity for the office and the country.

The President should manipulate the press, not the other way around, as it is now.

22 posted on 09/14/2007 6:47:11 AM PDT by caddie
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To: mnehrling
Good points there and one other minor one,

Congress passed a bill after Schiavo's feeding tube was removed in March 2005 to allow a federal court to review the case, ...Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who left office in 2003,

23 posted on 09/14/2007 6:47:28 AM PDT by McGruff (If I can't have Cheney, Fred will have to do.)
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To: johnny7

LMAO !!!

Now that is funny !


24 posted on 09/14/2007 6:48:47 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Nav_Mom
A lot of Conservatives take the same position (including myself who is in the education industry and my wife who is a teacher.)

The problem is some schools are just teaching to this because they only answer to groups whose only interest is high scores, not education. I am all for testing, but local school boards are pushing more for scores than actual learning. The problem here is parents not being involved in the school's actions and the boards aren't disclosing curriculum... this follows perfectly with Thompson's next comment:

"We expect you to get objective testing done and publicize those tests for the local parents and for the local citizens and suffer the political ramifications locally if things don't work out right.... It's your responsibility," he said. "If you don't like what's going on, don't get in your car and drive by your school board and maybe drive by the capitol and get on an airplane and fly to Washington and say, 'I don't like the way the school down the street is being run.'"

It goes back to the problem, the oversight in the testing piece is done by those whose only vested interest is in high scores, not education. It takes the parents out of the mix and leaves the responsibility to the government bureaucracy.

25 posted on 09/14/2007 6:48:53 AM PDT by mnehring (Thompson/Hunter 08 -- Fred08.com - The adults have joined the race.)
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To: NCLaw441

“his/her”

There’s women in here?


26 posted on 09/14/2007 6:49:02 AM PDT by demshateGod (Duncan Hunter for president)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Irrelevant
27 posted on 09/14/2007 6:52:29 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Same article, but slightly tweaked text and title.


28 posted on 09/14/2007 6:56:48 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: presidio9
A couple of interesting things here...

1) "No child left behind" predates the Terri Schaivo case, and yet he can't remember the more recent?

2) His opinions on "No child left behind" are almost a verbatum quote from the NEA.

Before I read this I was much more positively inclined towards Thompson.

29 posted on 09/14/2007 7:00:00 AM PDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: demshateGod
"Having no opinion on the Teri Schaivo case should disqualify him from the presidency."

Thats your cue. It's not too late to start an exploritory committee for the demshateGod candidacy.
30 posted on 09/14/2007 7:01:54 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: The Duke

The more I hear out of Fred the less I’m impressed. Maybe he should have waited until January to get into the race.


31 posted on 09/14/2007 7:02:13 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Frankly I always thought a right to life was as important a federal principle as any other. What good are the other rights if you don't have a right to life (provided you aren't going around taking other people's life away from them).

Slavery and abortion. Life and liberty. The pursuit of happiness I'll leveave for another day. That one starts to attract the gay marriage and medical marijuana types.

32 posted on 09/14/2007 7:02:23 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

All I care about are Thompson’s opinions on Hillary.


33 posted on 09/14/2007 7:02:39 AM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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To: demshateGod

Horrible as it is, I would settle for life being a state issue (ugh!) if I thought the federalism principle would be applied consistently. But in reality it is trotted out only in an effort to fight conservatives during disagreements like the Shaivo case. If a husband were seeking to execute a healthy wife with the blessings of a state judge (the state legislators wanted to help Terry) then I would certainly hope the federal gov’t would step in. Terry’s husband shouldn’t have even been considered her husband legally since he was living with and having children with another woman.


34 posted on 09/14/2007 7:08:39 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I’m disappointed. The first chink in Thompson’s armor for me, I’m afraid.


35 posted on 09/14/2007 7:11:35 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: The Duke
1) "No child left behind" predates the Terri Schaivo case, and yet he can't remember the more recent?

See post # 18.

2) His opinions on "No child left behind" are almost a verbatum quote from the NEA.

You must not have read all his comments because he branched off significantly from the NEA when he put the responsibility back on the parents and his complaint was that the boards who oversee this aren't answerable to the parents.

Before I read this I was much more positively inclined towards Thompson.

That's why you made comments in the past like "I've got too much self respect to vote for him", (He) "play a politician on the Tee Vee", "Hunter is the only Republican candidate that I find interesting. The rest seem to be "Dems in disguise"", "Hunter's judges would be (far) better than Thompson's", "Fred Thompson has all the credentials to be "just another insider"".... No positive inclination anywhere in there...

I like what another poster said. Everyone should disclose who they endorse so at least we can judge motivation (and honesty in this case.) You are doing Hunter no favors by trying these little tricks.

36 posted on 09/14/2007 7:12:15 AM PDT by mnehring (Thompson/Hunter 08 -- Fred08.com - The adults have joined the race.)
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To: The Duke
Before I read this I was much more positively inclined towards Thompson.

Based on this post you've only known him as somebody other than an actor since 9/6/2007. You said at that time:

Regarding Fred Thompson, all I know about him is that he's been an actor on TV and in the movies, and that he's from my home state of Tennessee. I've got too much self respect to vote for him based solely on those criteria.

26 posted on 09/06/2007 5:23:26 AM EDT by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)


So you weren't REALLY very "positively inclined" towards Thompson before now, were you?
37 posted on 09/14/2007 7:12:43 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970

See #36


38 posted on 09/14/2007 7:14:07 AM PDT by mnehring (Thompson/Hunter 08 -- Fred08.com - The adults have joined the race.)
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To: mnehrling; The Duke
That's why you made comments in the past like "I've got too much self respect to vote for him", (He) "play a politician on the Tee Vee", "Hunter is the only Republican candidate that I find interesting. The rest seem to be "Dems in disguise"", "Hunter's judges would be (far) better than Thompson's", "Fred Thompson has all the credentials to be "just another insider""....

D'oh!

39 posted on 09/14/2007 7:14:59 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: mnehrling

Yup...you got me by 28 seconds. You can spot those “I’m starting to sour on Fred” plants a mile away.


40 posted on 09/14/2007 7:16:39 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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