[LadyDoc]

poor article.

Many liberals supported Schiavo's right to life because they remember the Nazi T4 program...it's a civil rights issue...especially for Jews who remember history.

And maybe Jesse Jackson remembers history too, like the Tuskeegee experiment.

[miss marmelstein]

It's an interesting article but I disagree that it was 9/11 that pushed libs over the edge. Who can forget the Elian horror under Clinton & Reno in which libs demonized the drowned,dead mother and Florida family and cheered when stormtroopers dragged an hysterical child out of a closet.

[KC_Conspirator]

Therefore, I would argue, their position on the Schiavo case can only be explained as stemming from something extrinsic to the case itself, namely their bigoted animus against conservatives: since conservatives support Terri Schiavo's right to live, liberals must oppose it. As a liberal professor recently said to an acquaintance of mine (and these were his exact words), "Anything Tom DeLay and those conservatives are for, I'm against."

Actually its a very good article.

I would make the argument that liberals are for forceful government, but they begged and threatened the GOP and the Bushes not use government to free Terri, but said they would use government in the form of tyrannical judges and local police to snuff her life out.

So Auster may be right.

[Nowhere Man]

Many liberals supported Schiavo's right to life because they remember the Nazi T4 program...it's a civil rights issue...especially for Jews who remember history.

And maybe Jesse Jackson remembers history too, like the Tuskeegee experiment.

Yeah, I agree that is it unfair to lay all or most of the blame on liberals and Democrats, unfortunatly, there are Republicans and conservatives who are pro-death either by thought or through their inaction. In fact, this issue does cross ideological lines, heck, in the case of Terri, I have more in common with some liberals and feminists than I do with some Freepers who wanted to let her die. I know slightly more Democrats did vote not to save Terri but the split was like 45% to 55% pro-death but that is near a statistical tie. I don't see this as a left/right issue, but a "right/wrong" issue.

First Terri, now the Pope, that bottle of Jim Beam is looking good to me. B-P