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.
Trying it out for Dean this fall. Dean will never pull it off.
I always feel better when I realize these anti-war people are paying the salaries of our troops through their income taxes. :-)
"Somehow I don't want to be lectured about the value of human life by the likes of him."
Somehow I don't want to be lectured about anything by the likes of Dave Zweifel.
"Dave Zweifel"
Funny I thought it said "Arnold Ziffel"
The loonie Left hates Bush because he cares about little ones being used as fodder for science...now that's a recipe for success...
Zzzzzzz... Man, get a new cliche, willya, guys? If Bush 'repeatedly lied" let's see the lawsuit, let's see the Dems call for impeachment, come on, bigmouth.
Somehow I don't want to be lectured about the value of human life by the likes of him.
Somehow I don't think George Bush even knows who you are, so he wasn't lecturing you, now was he?
Any time anyone of you get upset over someone who is leading the government (of any country) that it is God who sets men up over nations, and it is God who brings them down. God knows who is going to serve his purpose. Old Pharoah was not so good but he served the purpose of teaching the children of Israel some lessons. God knows the end from the beginning, and we can trust him. Pray for Isreal. We can call on the same God that Moses called on, and he is the same today, yesterday, and forever.
Capital Times is an ultra-left site. I don't know why you bother posting their articles.
I read "Adolf Zweifel." Funny how his words give us these perspectives.
1-They're interesting, as evidenced by the replies which generally exceed 2 or 3.
2-These same arguements will be made this fall, and in 2008. Better to see them and think about responses now.
I admit I'm a fan of reading the other side.
They keep repeating these lies about Bush having lied, as if it was some sort of religious cult. Pretty scary!
Clearly the IQ gets overwhelmed by this hatred for anything that is right and decent.
It must be the neurological damage all that dope has on the brain that makes these bozos talk so stupid and deranged.
In fact NO advances, cures or treatments have EVER been attributed to embryonic stem cells and NONE are likely with or without government funding for the next several decades.
In other words, those crazy scientists .... 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.
I don't believe you Mr. Zweifel.
Good going!...better than mine by far!
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