Bush Says Schiavo's Death Saddens Millions

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday that he joins the millions of Americans saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo and urged the country to honor her memory by working to "build a culture of life."

"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak," Bush said. "In cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in favor of life."
....
"I appreciate the example of grace and dignity they have displayed at a difficult time," the president said. "I urge all those who honor Terri Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, especially those who live at the mercy of others."
....
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said her death was a "regrettable loss of life" that deeply saddened him. "May God bless her memory," he said.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called Schiavo's death a "moral poverty and a legal tragedy."

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," DeLay said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20050331/ap_on_go_pr_wh/schiavo_washington

[Sannum]

1. oh, for god's sake!

:eyes:
It is sad that this poor woman was used as a political tennis ball. I am glad she is finally at peace.

[meegbear]

2. And no opposing viewpoints!

Is this a great media or what?

[bloom]

3. "Culture of Life" = End the War

[dhinojosa]

52. "Culture of Life" = End of Death Penalty

[ashmanonar]

4. "saddens millions"

that they don't have this political football to kick around anymore. he just didn't say the rest of the line.

[Flammable Materials]

85. "Saddens Millions" implies ...

... that there are millions who are happy that she's dead.

You've got to read through the lines constantly with BrUoSvHe.

[ashmanonar]

87. yep.

you're pretty much right.

never take him at face value, you gotta read between the lines and on the back of every page to figure him out.

[CO Liberal]

5. And Still No Comment...

...about any of the people who have died in Iraq thanks to his bogus war.

[Mr.Green93]

6. Millions of Fundies

who realize they have lost power forever,

[bullimiami]

7. shut up you giggling murderer.

you have the blood of over 100,000 directly on your hands.
you mocked Karla Faye Tucker before you put her to death.
you are a monster.
shut.
up.

[QC]

8. OK, let's call him on this.

Culture of life? Protecting the weak? Then that means health care, right? It means not cutting child immunization programs in order to pour more money into Halliburton, right? It means protecting Medicaid so that other people can have the kind of care Terri got, right?

It's time to make him choke on those words!

[Binka]

22. Let's Stop Their Stupid Code-Speak And MAKE Them Accountable

Culture of life is code for anti-choice, let's take our language back and make them live up to their rhetoric. I am so fucking sick of the blatant abuse from these fucktards.

Make him mean what he fucking says or hold his feet to the GD flames. Basta! Enough!

[QC]

46. Exactly. They've done morality w/o responsibility for too long.

These people are "pro-life" when it costs them nothing, but when you start talking about things that cost money--like health care and a living wage--then they suddenly go all social Darwinist on you.

[Renew Deal]

9. The didn't err on the side of life in Iraq.

Or when it comes to veteran benefits
Or Medicare
Or plans for Social Security
Or the Environment
Or Stem Cell Research
Or pre-9/11
Or almost every other issue that comes up.

[JI7]

10. didn't Tom Delay kill his dad ?

[sinkingfeeling]

11. So who made Tom Delay God? Yes, "men... will answer for their

behavior", but I think God said something about "Justice is mine"!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Egad...just replace the national symbol to a cross and pander bear...

...and be done with it you blowhards.

[Beetwasher]

13. "The Examples of Grace and Dignity"??????????

You mean the people outside the hospice who made life hell for all the other terminal patients INSIDE the hospice? You mean the guy playing bagpipes? Or the one's screaming and chanting? The one's who caused a young woman to miss being at her grandfathers side while he died? The one's selling t-shirts and all sort of junk? Jesus on a trailer hitch?

Uh huh, so much grace and dignity it makes me want to heave you fucking asshole.

[Ganja Ninja]

29. I think he was referring to the Christian jugglers.

What could be more dignified than that?:sarcasm:

[flamingyouth]

14. What's sad is that she was manipulated

And it took 15 freaking years for her wishes to finally be granted. I am very sad about that, and I hope she can finally rest in peace now. :(

[MnFats]

15. STILL trying to make political capital from a corpse...

....while evading responsibility for the mountains of corpses he has created in the Middle East.

Shameless, craven.


Surely God himself is ashamed of such behavior.

[rsmith6621]

16. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called Schiavo's

Lets Hope Mr Delays political life will soon be over as well and he is looking at life through the bars of a jail cell.

[w4rma]

17. Mr. DeLay, this fate befalls folks every single day and you and your party

fight *against* these folks every single day.

[flygal]

18. CULTURE OF LIFE ?????

Read the fricken opinion polls ass wipe - 82% don't think we need to work harder protecting a vegeatative woman than bringing our soldiers home.

Jesus - how in the hell do our troops support this crap!!

[Hobarticus]

19. DeLay describes GOP-run Congress as "moral poverty and a legal tragedy"

Oh well....dare to dream!

[high density]

20. How does the press do this with a straight face? (NM)

[chelsea0011]

21. The big story of the day is the report of nobody in government

being right about Iraq and Bush, a war criminal, slaughtering thousands. Instead we get Wolf Blitzer, saying more of this later. "But First" Terri Schiavo!

[Renew Deal]

23. ""The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer"

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

That can be said for Delay and Bush too.

BTW, who is going to be held responsible for what? They are going to punish those that acted legally? How exactly?

[NickB79]

30. Good, lets hold the men and women who are responsible for this

Terri's parents, who mocked her and made her life a living hell because she was overweight as a child, and caused her to become bulimic in the first place. The bulimia is what caused her heart attack and killed her cerebral cortex, and I hold her parents partly to blame for it.

[callous taoboy]

24. Barf-A-Rama-

:puke:

[hedda_foil]

25. OMG, he provides a PERFECT opportunity to frame a key liberal issue.

Look at this quote in isolation, please:

"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak,"

Yes, they do. And that is why progressives are determined to protect the weak, the ill, the elderly, the widows and orphans, and the poor among us from suffering for lack of food, medical care, or a roof over their heads.

[Rose Siding]

41. You'd think, except "the weak" is code for "zygote"

[Mz Pip]

26. I doubt the RWers

really want to do what is necessary to build a culture of life. It's so easy to jump on the bandwagon for one person.

They are good at throwing around talking points and sound bites. But to establish a culture of life more will be needed than just passing a couple of laws banning abortion and the removal of life support.

A true culture of life will take money to support - money for prenatal care, money for extensive end of life care, money for education and wellness issues.

No way will the RWers ever support a culture of life if it requires tax increases. They really don't get the big picture. Never did. Never will.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Contrary1]

80. No way to improve upon this post...

you said it perfectly.

[Catchawave]

89. Well stated Mz Pip......thank you -nt

[Beaverhausen]

27. I'm saddened by the daily deaths of soldiers and civilians in Iraq

Bush is an asshole.

[Rose Siding]

28. Jeb, Jackson and other repubs respond...

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/politics/11277454.htm

"After an extraordinarily difficult and tragic journey, Terri Schiavo is at rest. I remain convinced, however, that Terri's death is a window through which we can see the many issues left unresolved in our families and in our society. For that, we can be thankful for all that the life of Terri Schiavo has taught us." - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

....

"She was starved and dehydrated to death ... Her sickness has triggered a huge national health debate in our country." - The Rev. Jesse Jackson.

....

"Terri Schiavo is now a martyr. Her death is not in vain." - Florida Rep. Dennis Baxley, who sponsored the bill in the Florida House that aimed to restore her feeding tube.

---

"Congress in a bipartisan fashion took up Terri's cause and met in extraordinary session to provide Terri with an opportunity for a new, full, and fresh review in federal court of her right to receive life-sustaining treatment. Regrettably, this effort did not receive the court review the law requires." - U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr.

---

"An attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life." - Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood.

[bif]

31. Maybe he should push for a "Terri Schiavo Day"

[nonconformist]

32. "the strong have a duty to protect the weak"

He said this with a straight face? It's completely the opposite from the Republican platform and the Bush administration repeatedly STOMPS all over the weak.

[ozymandius]

48. Why can't we hear these sentiments expressed over Darfur or those 100k

Iraqi civilians killed when our precision munitions decided to get a bit sloppy?

Stomp, indeed.

[skygazer]

33. Hmmmm, why didn't we hear these expressions of sorrow

over that black baby in Texas whose feeding tube was removed over the objections of his mother by provision of the law signed into effect by then governor Bush - you know, the law that says doctors can decide to end care if they feel the patient is not likely to recover and they are UNABLE TO PAY?

Just wondering.....

[BeyondGeography]

71. That will always be the best response to * on this issue

The 1999 law that he enacted in Texas as Governor made this an economic decision, even if next-of-kin opposed the removal of life supporting devices. This is completely immoral. And yet, the fundies think he is the second coming of Jesus Christ himself, and Shrub struts about as if he never signed such a law.

It would be laughable if it weren't completely disgraceful.

[Massachusetts]

34. Did I hear a noise????

[dean_dem]

35. "The time will come...

...for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

Yeah, Tom. You're goddamned right it will.


"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak,"

Or failing that, invade them.

[denverbill]

36. "The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the

"The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak," Bush said.

Wow. I actually agree with Bush for once. The wealthy are strong, the poor are weak. The essence of civilization is that the wealthy have a DUTY to protect the poor.

[WI_DEM]

37. Wrong. It makes me happy that her spirit has finally been released

from all this madness.

[DulceDecorum]

38. Meanwhile, the Pope is on a feeding tube

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/breaking_news/11277291.htm

and since the Pope is not brain-dead,
he continues to hold the reigns
of the Roman Catholic Church.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 Posted: 1622 GMT (0022 HKT)
VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- Pope John Paul II is not considering resignation despite increasingly frail health, according to a Vatican expert.
Vittorio Messori, a leading Catholic author who helped the pope write the a best-selling book, said Thursday the pontiff has rejected the possibility of stepping down in the past and has not changed his mind.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/03/31/pope.vatican/

[saigon68]

54. He fears his Lord

He'll have to stand in line before the maker--- like everyone else.

He'll have to explain, why his subordinates perpetrated thousands of crimes against children and he didn't do anything concrete to stop the cover-up---

And prevent more sodomy of children.

[DulceDecorum]

58. Hush

the Pope is infallible.
Everything he says and does is Holy
and comes straight from God Himself.

That will be fifty five Hail Marys
and fifty bucks in the collection basket.

[saigon68]

60. I'll get on the Hail Marys right away.

The Fifty bucks will have to wait until Sunday.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. .

:puke: Nothing more then hypocrites, all three of them.

[Mari333]

40. STFU, you POS murderer of thousands

You lying sack of shit, you murderous asshole, you vermin, you lowlife scumsucking monster. Just shut the F*ck up.

[saigon68]

62. Just tell Us how you really feel -- Mari

I take pleasure in Seconding Your Opinion !!!

[Az_lefty]

42. what utter hypocrisy !!!

:puke:

[onehandle]

43. And 1500+ soldiers deaths don't?

Take responsibility, asshole.

[beyurslf]

44. never befalls another.... like your father, Mr. Delay? Hypocrite!

[nine30]

45. Sodium Pentothal = Culture of Life

This is the man who (as Governor!) mocked Karla Faye Tucker on the day of her execution, seventeen years after she took part in a crime as a teenager.

[AlCzervik]

47. Millions of people that voted for Bush sadden me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

49. We are gonna go nuclear on the senate boys and girls

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," DeLay said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

This is what the shiavo case was all about....

Rest in Peace Terri

Now boys and girls get ready for the fight of your lives

[KamaAina]

50. KamaAina Says: Iraqi Deaths Sadden Millions, Too

Care to apply the "culture of life" doctrine to that, Bush**?

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said her death was a "regrettable loss of life" that deeply saddened him.

Two words: Meow! Meeeooowwww!

DeLay said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

Like, um, I don't know, let me see, his own dad?! :grr:

R.I.P. Terri. You deserved better.

[brooklynite]

51. What about the TENS of Millions who are relieved...

that common sense and the private rights of individuals to make their own medicial decisions have triumphed over intrusive government interference?

[grytpype]

53. It didn't sadden me.

I would be happy for Terri if her dying relieved her suffering, but she wasn't suffering.

Sadder things than this happen every day.

[Naipes]

93. Didn't sadden me either...

I mean I'm sorry the woman passed away, but I didn't know her at all. It does not sadden me when complete strangers die, I'm sorry. I feel empathy for the family, but I'm not sad in a personal sense.

It's poetic irony that 15 years ago this woman was trying to kill herself (anorexia) and she dies because her feeding tube was removed. Isn't this exactly what Mrs. Schiavo wanted in the first place?

[GOPFighter]

55. Now for phase 2 of the GOP strategy:

Use the judicial decisions that went against the Schindlers to fan the flames for the appointment of more and more radical, pro-life, conservative judges. Instead of our Founding Father's "Seperation of Powers", the GOP wants "Consolidation of Powers".

[DemBeans]

75. you've got that absolutely right...

The GOP used this case in an effort to push through their wingnut, far out of the mainstream judicial nominees.

I think, though, that's it's going to backfire on them. The collective public as a whole seems relieved that there was some sanity in this entire process, and that was the inherent checks and balances brought about by judicial review. The public was clearly repulsed by the frenzied zeal that took place outside of that hospice, and the hostility of these former 'rule of law' hypocrites towards the courts. I think this whole ridiculous passion play has hurt their cause, not helped it.

[CottonBear]

56. CottonBear says Bu$h is an evil moran. eom.

[jokerman93]

57. The time will come...but not today?

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

This is the most disturbing phrase in the quote to me. I can't help thinking it's a veiled threat of reprisal against the judges who foiled Bush's christo-freeper agenda on this one.

Am I reading this wrong? Is he referring to some other specific "men" here?

[rodeodance]

61. I do not know who DeLay was referring to--but it is chilling that is for

sure!!


.....House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called Schiavo's death a "moral poverty and a legal tragedy."

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," DeLay said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&nci...

[geomon666]

59. Oh s***

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but this sounds like a threat to me.

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today.

Is that fundie code speak or what?

[rodeodance]

63. Hammer boy said it--IT is a threat!!

[Bread and Circus]

64. Seems to me Bush cares more about the death of Schiavo than a soldier

[daleo]

65. Your dad is listening in the afterlife, Delay.

"This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change," DeLay said. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another."

He knows you don't believe a word you are saying, you slithering snake of a hypocrite. The time will come when you will be held responsible for your lying and hypocrisy on this issue. Not today, but it will come.

[Greylyn58]

66. The Shrub and his lapdogs

really do have no shame.

Culture of Life???....you sir wouldn't know life if it jumped up and bit you in the ass. All that you and your kind have fostered is a Culture of Death and are leaving a trail of bodies in your wake.

If we are never able to bring the Shrub and his minions to justice in this world, I sincerely hope that all of them, who have caused the deaths of so many, will be haunted for an eternity.

Bastards...all of them.

[Ilsa]

67. I'm happy for her...that she's escaped the indignity of being

paraded out to enhance the political careers of Tom DeLay et al, as well as distract from bad news events for the MalAdministration. She won't be available for the RW'ers to gawk at anymore.

[Endangered Specie]

68. What about the 'millions' who have or will die because of you Bush?

I guess what Stalin said was true:

"The death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic"


:rant:

[davsand]

69. "Schiavo's Death Saddens Millions." So do the deaths that go unreported.

More than just one person died today.

We lost another US soldier in Iraq today with five more wounded in that same attack. Does the GOP mourn THAT DEATH TOO? Are they worried about keeping the seriously wounded soldiers alive for the rest of their remaining lives? Will they pick up the tab for our servicemen who require feeding tubes or any other specialized care for the rest of their lives?

The rank hypocrisy here is both staggering and nauseating.



Laura

[dave29]

70. His "strong have a duty to protect the weak" meme

just cracks me up. Tax increases for the rich, anyone?

[jwirr]

72. What a damn fool he is! ALL OF US

mourn the death of this woman. The arguement was never about wanting her to die - it was about her wish to die. There is a difference.

[Charlie Brown]

73. did Tom just threaten Judge Greer and Michael Schiavo? n/t

[Lady Effingbroke]

74. I am working to "build a culture of life" every day

in my microbiology class.

[Karenina]

76. 'Scuse me a minute...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Gyre]

77. Not me.

I'm glad I don't have to see her picture everytime I open my browser to check the newz. :)

Gyre

[Logansquare]

78. He and the rest of the political Right couldn't be more relieved

Day after day of the grotesque televised spectacle outside of the hospice--having your identity tied with those images was not something either Bush or Jebbie counted on.

[earth mom]

79. What a TOTAL INSULT to the soldiers & their families & the people

who have died in Iraq!!! * has NOT gone to one-NOT ONE-soldiers funeral!
What a F-IN HYPOCRITICAL LYING SACK OF SHIT!!! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[buzzard]

81. What saddens far more people are the deaths of thousands of Americans

in a war of greed and the thousands of deaths of Iraqi citizens and children. I am sick of the constant media circus surrounding the death of a single woman.

[Catfight]

82. "culture of life?" under Bush? he signed more executions than any

governor in the USA! Everywhere Bush goes, dead bodies surround him. What a hypocrite of the highest order. He's dead-wrong on everything.

[shantipriya]

96. Culture of Life

Does the idiot even understand the meaning of those words?

[d_b]

83. "Culture of life"

by 100,000 dead Iraqis

[Zhade]

84. "the strong have a duty to protect the weak" = White Man's Burden.

NT!

[demokatgurrl]

86. George, I refer you to the excellent article

on the front page of DU on the "Starving hundred thousands".

[HockeyMom]

88. Living Wills

If he was so concerned why didn't he call on people to make their wishes know with Living Wills? Maybe, because he is AFRAID people will do exactly that? Might these Living Wills go AGAINST their idea of the "Culture of Life"?

[demokatgurrl]

90. And yet the death of millions saddens no one.

[Arkansas Granny]

91. I'm saddened by her death, too.

The fact is that her death took place 15 years ago. They have finally allowed her body to follow.

The frightening part of this whole charade is that it will be used to try to limit our personal freedoms (like so many of *'s policies).

If they truly cared about a "culture of life" they would do something to address poverty, health care for all Americans and host of other problems that truly affected life and standards of living for all of our citizens.

[Toucano]

92. Bush's re-election saddens billions. n/t

[Danmel]

94. How can he not burst into flames when he says this shit?

The strong have a duty to protect the weak? Is that why you cut food aid for the poor? Housing aid? Section 8 grants? Block grants? Pell grants? Education? Health care? Is that why you allow rich corprations to trade mercury credits and poison fetuses and infants and pregnant woman?

I swear, he should be struck by a thunderbolt every time he opens that lying yap of his!

[Guitarman]

95. What saddens me...

is that this obsession with Terri Shiavo has overshadowed every other serious issue. Such as the number of American servicemen who have dies since the country went ga ga over TS. Pre teen girls being kidnapped, raped and killed. Schoolchildren killing other children. None of that seemd to matter as long as some people could climb about the moralistic self righteous gravy train that is Terri Shiavo.

[Arkana]

97. I feel sorry for Terri--she was used as a political tool

by the GOP, and she is finally at peace.