That voice is fatherly, reassuring, calm. The contrast to Hillary couldnt be sharper.
Im going to say well-briefed, but I know that will just spur one of the Thompson Associates to call me to tell me thats not a sign of others briefing him, thats a sign of Thompsons own reading and study of the issues.
I was about to say that he was almost too conversational, that he could have used one quip or pithy summation at his views, and then, finally, at the tail end of his question on Schiavo, he summed up, the less government, the better.
When Fred Met Tim: Evaluating Thompson on Meet The Press
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The day will come. It may be 50 years from today or it could be next month but the day will arrive when you are sitting in a doctors office or lying in a hospital bed, when youll hear the words, Theres little we can do for you. We will try to control your pain as much as possible.
You are dying.
You may already be picturing your last days and hours at home, in your own bed, surrounded by your loved ones, free of pain, ready to go. But that vision is wishful thinking. Most of us will draw our last breath in a hospital bed. Some of us will die alone, while many will be lost in a medicated fog.
Genetic counselling and in vitro fertilization has revolutionized how life begins. Now many think Canada is overdue for an honest public debate about how life ends.
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So, I'd still like to know who's, when and where?
Fred Thompson fails biology with an "F". If we have a health crisis, God forbid, he'd get another "F".