It's kinda cloudy
Seriously.
This guy?
(Fred) Thompson was asked in an interview for Bay News 9's "Political Connections" program whether he thought Congress' intervention to save the life of the brain-damaged woman two years ago was appropriate.
"I can't pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best," Thompson said. "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it."
This guy?
(Fred) Thompson was asked in an interview for Bay News 9's "Political Connections" program whether he thought Congress' intervention to save the life of the brain-damaged woman two years ago was appropriate.
"I can't pass judgment on it. I know that good people were doing what they thought was best," Thompson said. "That's going back in history. I don't remember the details of it."
posted by Jmac at 8:42 AM
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How many times during an interview will he say "line!" expecting the off camera director's assistant to tell him what to say?
I'm just saying. All of those years of ACTING tough, decisive, thoughtful, etc., might have caused Fred to forget how to actually DO or BE those things.
PLUS - get this guy off of my TV until you start giving everyone else equal time. I'm talking to you, TNT! I know that the Fred and NBC Universal/TNT position is that the FCC equal time rules don't apply to cable, but let's get a ruling on that.
Darren
I do disapprove of this answer - I think he should have unequivocally supported the Terri Schiavo act. When a judge takes it upon himself to have someone executed, when that person HAS NOT BEEN CONVICTED OF ANYTHING, I think a line has been crossed. SOMEONE needs to intervene.
Um, yeah, whatever. Listen, I've had many takes on Terri Schiavo. But the fact remains that in order to override her husband's legal right to make decisions for her in her stead due to her inability to do it for herself, some troubling legal precedents would have to be set.
At the time my grandparents had just died. Three people declining slowly and not one who would have preferred to prolong their own lives in that state. So...that decision, IMO, is to be made only by those who are close to it -- those who have the legal power of attorney as assigned by the affected parties. Any action which would have "saved" Terri Schiavo would have also prolonged the lives of many suffering people against their wishes, and I can't imagine that is in keeping with either our conception of freedom or the hippocratic oath.
Her estranged husband, who was just waiting on her to keel over so he could go on to his next victim, I mean, wife, did NOT have power of attorney.
As I remember the facts, the "judge's" decision was based on an offhand comment that she was ALLEGED to have.
And as I read the Congressional act, it did not apply to anyone else BUT Ms. Schindler. It created a special exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in her case.
Sorry to hear about your grandparents. :(
That settles it for me.
We have found Bush's successor.
No,we have actually found someone dumber than bush...
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