Obama Regrets Not Supporting Terry Schiavo's Husband

Remember Terry Schiavo's husband--the man who secured permission to kill his disabled wife and promptly cut off her feeding tube? This in spite of not only measurable brain activity, but smiles, "vocalizations," and other actions her parents took as indications not only of awareness but of conscious thought? Remember when a Republican Congress took a stand for life, arguing that starving Terry was wrong?

Mr. Obama has regrets. Regrets that he did not stand up for Terry? No. He's a liberal Democrat, an ALLEGED PROGRESSIVE, liberated from the shackles of religion, morality, and all vestiges of absolute truth.

Obama regrets that he did not take a stronger stand against his colleagues. He regrets his failure to stand up for the rights of the husband.

"When I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decisionmaking process of the families," he said. "It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a mistake..."

The worst part of this may be that regrets tend to create determination: Obama is not likely to repeat his "error."

Read the article here.

**Incidentally, this issue, like Major League Baseball, healthcare, education, the arts, and a thousand other things was arguably never within the province of the U.S. Congress. Not being enumerated in the Constitution, most issues fall within the "Reserved Powers," and are rightly the business only of the individual States. Ha, ha, ha, ha! How cute, I know. How naive. Oh, that's classic. Try to restrain your hilarity. Oh, and of course, true to form, when convenient, Democrats will suddenly stand up and defend the Constitution:

But Democrats said Congress has no right to become involved in a sensitive family issue.

"We are members of Congress. We are not doctors. We are not medical experts. We are not bioethicists. We are members of Congress," said Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.

How often do you hear BIG GOVERNMENT Socialists ask to be kept out of people's private affairs? The latter quote is from a news article of 2005. BTW, doesn't the Schiavo case seem like just yesterday? Obama really is short on experience.