Posted on 07/25/2006 5:14:54 PM PDT by SJackson
I really do try hard not to dislike George W. Bush as a person.
But then he pulls a stunt like he did last week in vetoing a bill that would have allowed researchers in this country to get more help in exploring the many promises of stem cells.
The veto was almost beside the point. It was the smarmy way he and the cynical entourage with which he has surrounded himself played to the TV cameras and the religious zealots they hope will storm the polls for small-minded Republicans like himself this fall.
Parading an entourage of cute little kids onto the stage (can't you picture the frantic search Bush's underlings conducted to round up enough of these kids for the event?), he claimed that they were all given life by a frozen embryo that had been created for in vitro fertilization, implying that none would be alive today if the bill he was vetoing had been the law of the land.
In other words, those crazy scientists in our universities like the UW's Jamie Thompson, I guess would be willy-nilly grabbing frozen embryos from the clutches of prospective parents and snuffing out lives like the little toddler Bush was holding in his arms.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The embryos the nation's stem cell researchers would have been permitted to use are ones that were to be discarded. But, as we all know so well after these past six years, truth never gets in the way of a George Bush political initiative. If we can lie about the need to go to war, surely we can lie about stem cell researchers.
Too bad there wasn't another stage where grandpas and grandmas with Alzheimer's, or young people in wheelchairs for life because of spinal injuries, or young fathers suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's could have been paraded in front of the cameras to demonstrate the cruelty of Bush's veto. Embryos are created every day. The lives of those suffering people are forever lost unless, of course, the promise of stem cells is someday realized.
And then there was the blatant hypocrisy.
Here was a president pandering to his righteous religious base about the "sanctity" of human life. The same president who repeatedly lied to get his country into a war that has taken the lives of tens of thousands of human beings and injured and maimed many thousands more.
Somehow I don't want to be lectured about the value of human life by the likes of him.
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I'll bet.
Are you the author? ROFL
Better President Bush now, than God later.
No BARF alert?
I bet the editor added that line to soften up the piece.
There's a point I've never heard made before.
The same president who repeatedly lied to get his country into a war that has taken the lives of tens of thousands of human beings and injured and maimed many thousands more.
He's not from around here, is he?
This guy is sick. That's why we will probably end up in a war with his kind.
Perhaps we should experiment with some of this guys brain stem cells. He seems to not be using them.
Well since he is willing to lie here, there is no reason to pay any attention to the rest of his drivel. Embryonic Stem Cell Research can go on all this utter moron likes. He and the rest of his rabid Leftist buddies can simply dig out their check books, blow the dust off and pay for what THEY want themselves for once is their miserable misbegotten lives.
Dave: Please take your salary, seal it in an envelope, and mail it to the university researcher of your choice. None of these actions are banned; you want the research, go pay for it, and leave the rest of the world out of it.
No need for a barf alert since this is written in the Crapitol Slimes, printed in the People's Republic of Madison!
The source. If you haven't been reading the progressive voice of Berkley East, you should get to know them.
"But then he pulls a stunt like he did last week in vetoing a bill that would have allowed researchers in this country to get more help in exploring the many promises of stem cells."
He begins his article with lie, and then immediately follows it up with another lie. This is the shameless, liberal Democrat way, lie, lie, lie and then lie again. Bush's vetoing of embryonic stem cell research in no way will limit researchers on finding cures. In fact, stem cells taken from adults are proving to be even more promising than embryonic stem cells. This lying s.o.b. actually looks for reasons to hate Bush.
Leave it to Dave Zweifel to start out a column with a knowing, deliberate lie. Do a google search on "Dave Zweifel" and "Bush", take a glance at his past columns, and you will see that Zweifel clearly dislikes George W. Bush personally, with a passion bordering on obsession. Who do these leftist imbeciles think that they can fool with their polemics?
They don't have to, the pharmicutical companies will do the research. That's the way it should work. It's a shame that aspect of the arguement hasn't been addresed. We may need to government to get us to the moon or fund the Manhattan Project, but drug research? Let capitalism work.
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