Posted on 02/27/2008 1:14:38 PM PST by NYer
Cleveland, OH (LifeNews.com) -- Senator Barack Obama debated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night and said his biggest mistake was voting with a unanimous Senate to help save Terri Schiavo. Terri is the disabled Florida woman whose husband won the legal right to starve her to death.
In March 2005, just weeks before Terri died from a painful 14-day starvation and dehydration death, Congress approved legislation allowing her family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop the euthanasia from proceeding.
Terri was not on any artificial breathing apparatus and only required a feeding tube to eat and drink. Her family had filed a lawsuit against her former husband to allow them to care for her and give her proper medical and rehabilitative care.
The Senate unanimously approved a compromise bill, which the House eventually supported on a lopsided bipartisan vote and President Bush signed, to help the disabled woman.
During the Tuesday debate, Obama said he should have stood up against the life-saving legislation.
“It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped,” Obama said.
“And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better,” he added.
This isn't the first time Obama has said the biggest mistake he made as senator was voting to help try to stop Terri from being euthanized.
During an April 2007 debate, Obama said, "I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldn't have.”
"And I think I should have stayed in the Senate and fought more for making sure [Terri's parents couldn't take their case to federal court to save her life]," he explained.
Since Terri’s death, the Schindler family has established a foundation to help disabled and elderly patients obtain proper medical care and legal and other assistance when they are denied it.
Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org
Ping!
Yeah, that's the kind of leader I want protecting America.
Yeah, that's the kind of leader I want protecting America.
No...the conservative, God respecting true Americans were/are disgusted with the rogue judicial system that arrogantly ignored the request by congress to re-examine the facts. Instead they killed an innocent disabled woman. The Senate and Congress creeps who won't protect innocent lives are vermin and scum. BHO is in that group.
No Surprise there at all. If he doesn’t mind the little ones that make it through abortions being murdered then he isn’t going to care about a woman in FLA.
It’s a predictable move. Under socialized universal healthcare, they’re going to have to clear some of us out of the way “for the greater good.”
It’s a predictable move. Under socialized universal healthcare, they’re going to have to clear some of us out of the way “for the greater good.”
Prime targets = baby boomers. Stay tuned. But, this time there won’t be an arian (sp) race to insure. Heil.
Obama is a filthy, despicable beast.
Ah. let me take a guess, with ted kennedy?
Your search button broke?
Obama’s INHUMAN response proves that he and Hillary and all the other Brave New World liberals really do inhabit a separate moral universe and view the world of human life differently.
Terry Schindler (won’t use her monster husband’s name) dwells now in Heaven wearing her martyr’s crown.
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