Excuse me, but aren't these 'good' people fighting to keep

sinkingfeeling

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:03 PM
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Excuse me, but aren't these 'good' people fighting to keep

Terri Schiavo alive, the same ones who just voted to cut Medicaid funding and WIC funding? Who could care less if a poor woman has no access to health care prior to giving birth? Who literaly praise Bush for killing 100,000s of Iraqis? Who just barred federal judges from hearing appeals from death row inmates after they have gone through the state courts?

And secondly, why is Terri Schiavo life more 'valuable' than any of the 30,000 innocent children's who die each day in this world?

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triguy46

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:06 PM
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1. Yep, you're right.

Defend "right to life," which can also mean, support the death penalty, kill 100,000 iraqis, slash medicaid, ad nauseum. This is all about politics and zero about Terry Schiavo.

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atreides1

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:07 PM
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2. Yes

They are the very same people that you've described.

Terri Schiavo's life isn't more 'valuable', it's just that she's more useful as part of the Republican agenda.

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madeline_con

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:09 PM
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3. politics

Bush has to continue to look good to the fundies who fund him.
Anything, gay rights, abortion, someone dying in a hospice, has to have his nose stuck in it so they can all sit back and say what a 'compassionate' War President he is...

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underpants

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:10 PM
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4. 'valuable'? worth?

Florida Sen. Daniel Webster, R Winter Garden tries to make a point using a one hundred dollar bill that it has value whether it's crumpled up or crisp and new, in connection with the Terri Schiavo case, Friday March 18, 2005, on the Senate floor in Tallahassee, Fla. As a deadline loomed, U.S. Senate Republicans sought to keep severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive Friday with an invitation to bring her to Washington, and an attorney for her parents said they hoped the move would buy them more time. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1669630&mesg_id=1669630

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aden_nak

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:22 PM
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5. I bet he was up all week jerking off to how great a metaphor that was.

And, really, it was a good metaphor, but not in the way he intended. All it did was point out that in the end, Republicans see people as a cost/value equation.

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Jo March

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:24 PM
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7. I'm going to write him and tell him how disgusted he made me

It is a shame that the only metaphor that he could use was money. How about flowers that die in the fall and come back in the spring?

Good grief.

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Jo March

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Fri Mar-18-05 04:22 PM
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6. Jesus stated that what we do to the "very least of these"

we also do to Him as well.

That gets overlooked by the zealous. They believe that they are doing God's work. Well, God does His own work. We do not do God's work. We do our work in a way that we hope will be pleasing to Him.

I can't see how this whole sad event is glorifying God nor do I see how the reaction of the repubs is "doing God's work."

Delay and his ilk are glorifying themselves, hoping that the press coverage will wash away their sins from Iraq and from here at home. It won't work, ever.

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