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Originally posted by andrews:
I'm not a huge Bush supporter, but I don't see any real contradiction here. The parents have pleaded and begged for help to save their daughter. All the President did was try and allow for this issue to be looked at once again, with more scrutiny, while allowing their daughter to be kept alive. It's been fifteen years, is it unreasonable to have a few more weeks to more closely examine this situation?
Actually, yes it is unreasonable, and unconstitutional.
States have a specific amount of autonomy and self governing rights and have their own constitutions as well. This was put in place by the framers of the constitution to limit the power of the federal government.
What the republican congress and Bush did was try an end run around these limits of power trying to create a precident to really become intrusive and controlling on a very local level while also pandering to their christian right base, whom they were losing over a myriad of reasons. Delay was catured on tape saying such.
The chickens are coming home to roost on their policies, most people are beginning to wise up finally.
Clinton was as manipulative, but it seems to me that they were win win manipulations for all even the multinationals... everyone was making good money and having a better quality of life and leisure, can't really say that now, can we.
Back on topic:
The parents had MANY hearings with MANY experts testimony and were unsuccessful at every turn for a reason... their claims are unfounded.
Now they are saying Terri said "I want to live" which is an impossability if you paid attention to the CT scans of her brain and saw the 80% void in where where her cortex should be, I don't mean that there is 20% cortex there I am saying there is only 20% brain left and no cerebral cortex.
The media trots out Pat Boone to relate the story of his grandson which is nice but completely unrealted to Terri's condition, apples and oranges, yet it is couched in the 'possability' arena to confuse the public into believing that there is a chance for her.
This case is simple enough. She said and told more than one person that she would not want life support, the husband is carrying out her wish after exhausting all medical possabilities of rehab. That doesn't get reported very much now does it?
His aggressive attendance to her healthcare and her nursing homes doesn't get reported very much.
I think he is a stand up guy, sticking by his word to her, and taking huge hits personally for doing that.
He could have cashed out many times, big time, yet didn't.
One must look at the mans actions and behaviour throughtout concerning her, and they have been consistant in his dedication to her and her wishes, even when he has another in his life and kids, he maintained his dedication to her. It would have been so much easier to ditch Terri and go on.
He gains nothing from him following through, not financially, not socially, not culturelly.
Only his integrity remains intact.
I wish there were a lot more like him, a no nonsense man of his word.
