Re the Schiavo case, NPR commentator Daniel Schorr recently said this:
Other ironies that come to mind for me are:
Attempting to force-feed a woman who was bulemic.
So-called conservatives criticizing judges for not taking actions they condemn as “activism” in other cases.
Christians doing everything they can to keep a woman clinging to earthly life.
Others? Comments?
So called states-rights people trying to override the state’s decision.
The party that claims to be in favor of smaller, less intrusive government interfering in a personal decision between a husband and wife.
The religious right breaking the “Thou shalt not lie” commandment in their attacks on Terri’s husband.
And of course people who were opposed to states rights arguments in the past now espousing states rights positions.
Good eye, BobT.
Members of Congress claiming that they’re trying to save a life, despite the fact that almost all of them supported a war in Iraq that’s killed thousands of innocent people?
Plus, if she was bulemic, it’s a safe bet she was concerned about her appearance and would be horrified to have all these extremely unflattering pictures of her as front-page news for weeks.
So you’re saying that it’s impossible to value life and support a war, or just the Iraq war?
Right-wingers that scream “marriage is sacred!” to keep it from the evil gays, but decide Mike and Terri’s union is not so much sacred.
The bigger irony is in President Bush’s comments about erring on the side of life; he has never been concerned about erring on the side of not executing an innocent person.
There’s also the bill he signed in Texas that explicitly gave doctors the right to make some terminal care decisions against the family’s wishes.
I hardly think that conservatives seeking to expand federal power count as “irony” any more. If it does, then we are surely living in the most ironic times in human history.
I’m saying that it’s impossible to value life and support a war that was started for the purpose of stealing oil.
It’s come out recently that Tom DeLay went through a similar situation with his own father.
Stealing oil?
Oh, I suppose that’s why my gas prices are down around 50 cents a gallon…because we stole Iraq’s oil.
:rolleyes:
And on the same set of issues, insisting the court can be in error about the Schiavo case while not questioning any of the death penalty decisions.
So um…*why * are we there, again?
I mean, I don’t think it’s oil, either, but I can’t really put my finger on why. No WMDs, *Osama * attacked us. Revenge for what happened to his daddy? Sheer obstinacy?
Geez, don’t you watch the news? Oil prices dropped when American forces were welcomed by the Iraqi populace as liberators. Why, since our troops waltzed into Bagdad on streets strewn with rose petals, gas has been cheap, cheap, cheap.
. . . .What?
Anyone else really hoping that the Pope announces that, if his illness reaches a certain point, he doesn’t want to be kept alive artificially.
That would be hilarious…
People who have spent the last fifty years federalizing damn near everything objecting to giving a federal court the right to review a state case…
Also ironic is hearing Republicans such as Tom DeLay argue against the importance of the “sanctity of marriage.”
When the chanters started comparing her to Christ at easter, I found that offensive. She didn’t take on anyone’s sins.
The big irony I see is that thousands of other plugs are being pulled and nobody cares, it’s all private.
Why do some cases like this, and the annual one about a child custody, rise to the level of the presidency and supreme court, while so many identical cases are ignored?