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Perhaps we can all sit back and enjoy buttered popcorn and a beverage and just watch the implosion of colliding liberal values. It helps to recall that liberals project their own biases, hates and fears onto their perceived enemies, and sometimes it is their own. The frightening collision is like a freeway at rush hour in dense fog. It just keeps slamming.

Here, good old Hillary just didn't fight hard enough to have Terri killed.

I'm not sure whether this writer means Hill or Hell, but I guess one of them is freezing over.

Of course, it doesn't. The fact is, some of the most incisive feminist writers and effective feminist activists - people like Katha Pollitt, Frances Kissling and Eve Ensler, among many others - are backing Obama. The late Molly Ivins - a fiercely progressive, genuinely populist Texan in her 60s - spelled out her opposition to Clinton in January of 2006, in a column bluntly titled "I will not support Hillary Clinton for president". "Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone," she wrote. "This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri Schiavo, not to mention that gross pandering on flag-burning, are just contemptible little dodges.".........

Hell hath no fury

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Because of the source, Washington .com Post, or whatever, I can only do a teensie excerpt. Be sure to read the whole thing. I feel bad for Eleanore Clift and her loss as I see her book being used as a counter weight by cronies on the left, an attempt to balance from the left, the heavy truth of the right, Terri's Legacy. That is a problem anyway with the left. As they love mirrors, and they show their image is just as pretty as what is reflected, they fail to account for the reality it is only an image and an opposite in every way. So here it is with the expected distortions of reality from imperfect prism.

We all remember that brain-damaged woman who was exhibited -- flaunted might be a better word -- on our television screens, the same set of clips over and over, of a vacant-eyed, sweet-faced female who'd been in what some people called a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. Poor Terri Schiavo. Her husband, Michael, wanted to remove her life-support systems, but her parents would have none of it. They took Michael to court and accused him of every crime in the book. Then, as we all remember, the politicians got wind of this drama, and a particularly awful kind of hell broke loose. Every opportunist in the land (or so it seemed) elbowed rudely for a place in front of the television cameras. Every imaginable kind of distasteful behavior took place outside Terri Schiavo's Florida hospice, and the news media were more than happy to oblige, because the public couldn't stop watching. It was a shame and a disgrace on every possible level. And because she is a contributing editor of Newsweek and a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," Eleanor Clift was a part of it........

A Personal Loss, a National Shame

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