Man of steel (Bush must share the blame for Reeve not standing on his 50th birthday)

The Guardian (U.K.) ^ | 09/17/2002 | Oliver Burkeman

[Pokey78]

No room for the 'barf alert' in the title.

[jackbill]

No room for the 'barf alert' in the title.

Never mind. I'll put one here.

BARF ALERT

[Black Agnes]

Reeve is a ghoul.

[midwestmidnight]

It's True! I saw G.W. force Stuperman onto that horse at gun-point.

[Fred Mertz]

My ingrown toe nail hasn't healed yet. Bush must share in the blame.

[jlogajan]

I gotta agree with Reeve, medical progess should not be interfered with by religious agendas using state power.

[Timmy]

He's always been a selfish bastard. Before he was injured, he traveled around to schools and worked to keep the evil "religious right" (parents) from influencing them. He was actually quoted as saying that parents were not knowledgeable enough to have a say in what the schools do and should leave it to "professionals." Now, it's all about him. Millions in government funding should be used to help HIM.

[lawdude]

At one time I felt sorry for Reeves. But now he can



BITE ME

Whiner!

[Malacoda]

Add a

BOVINE EFFLUVIA</>

alert while you're at it.

[Sgt_Schultze]

But if only Bush43 had given him the horse-riding lessons, Reeve wouldn't have fallen.

[heartwood]

Hey, Chris, how many dead babies you want in your neck?

[mystery-ak]

I knew I'd get mad after reading this.....

[Deep_6]

"...I gotta agree with Reeve, medical progess should not be interfered with by religious agendas using state power....."

Hooooray! Someone had the guts to say that!

[sinkspur]

Let's see.

He was injured in 1995. Clinton had a full term to bring Reeve to his feet. Nary a mention of Clinton's stinginess.

I never thought a guy in a wheelchair could inspire loathing, but Larry Flynt and Christopher Reeve have done it.

[pfflier]

Christopher Reeve was playing a rich man's game riding horses and didn't give a sh*t about researching paralysis until it happened to him. Now he is the cause celebre because he was a Hollywood type.

[ikka]

In his 1998 autobiography, Still Me, Reeve described how his anger was mainly directed at himself, how he had failed himself, and his family - his wife, Dana, their son Will, now nine, and his two older children from a previous relationship, Matthew and Alexandra. "It dawned on me," he writes, that "I was going to be a huge burden to everybody, that I had ruined my life and everybody else's." Now, though, it is sharply focused on America's politicians and religious leaders

He did something, on his own volition, that got himself injured. Rather than face the facts, he is shifting blame to others.

It says something about his own worldview that he believes that if he is a cripple, his worth as a human being is greatly lessened.

[marbren]

So the point is that we need to kill babies so he can stand up.

[Aliska]

It's medical regression that would create new life solely for the purpose of using it for spare parts.

[BlazingArizona]

Actually I think Reeve is right. The whole idea that cloning from stem cells is 'evil' is like the old mud-hut attitude that taking a photograph steals one's soul.

Let's set technology free to cure disease and extend our lifespans. Who knows - one day there might even be jobs again.

[Romulus]

"I learned years ago to come to terms with having so much done for me by others,"...

So mining the body parts of the murdered unborn just comes naturally.