That is what is always seemed like to me:
A convenient prop to be wheeled out when needed and then put away.
Poor Gabby Giffords is being used the same way.
Has to suck realizing you are no more than a Howdy Doody doll for some manipulative hack.
I agree doorgunner, to some extent, we are are all tools. I hope that in my cause I am a very sharp, useful tool.
That said, later in the year of 1981, I named my first born son, Brady, in his honor. Jim Brady’s honor was beyond his any longer and he became the puppet of his wife. RIP Jim, glad they are short one tool to use.