Disgustingly Hypocritical Bush on the Value of Life

[Bob Geiger]

Like Scott "The Lyin' King" McClellan before him, it's the job of White House Press Secretary Tony Snow to get out there and lie through his teeth for the team every day and to articulate the official views of George W. Bush to the media, who then relay it to the American people.

Here's what Snow relayed to us yesterday about his boss's view of stem cell research, the 70 percent of us in favor of it and the medical community that believes it will help people have better lives:

"What the President has said is that he doesn't want human life destroyed. Now, you may consider that insignificant, but the President has said…. believes strongly that for the purpose of research it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder; he's one of them.

"The simple answer is he thinks murder is wrong. The President is not going to get on the slippery slope of taking something that is living and making it dead for the purpose of research.

And here's the life-affirming president himself in 2001:

"I believe human life is a sacred gift from our creator," Bush said in an August 2001 nationally televised address on the stem-cell issue. "I worry about a culture that devalues life, and I believe as your president I have an obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world."

And, perhaps knowing the moment would come when he would nuke the hopes of people with diseases like diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's with a veto like the one he's about to deliver, Bush said this in his State of the Union address in January of 2006:

"Human life is a gift from our creator and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale."

This from a guy who has the blood of over 2,500 of our troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis on his hands because of his discretionary war and who, as Governor of Texas, executed so many people they had to replace 'the chair' with electric bleachers.

Just lovely.

But at least Snow was honest in his final comment on the subject at yesterday's press briefing when he affirmed that Bush is only staying true to promises made to the Religious Right six years ago.

"He is fulfilling a promise that he has long made and he is keeping it."

You can reach Bob Geiger at [e-mail].

[bdamomma]

1. bush is total hypocrite

he shuns Stem Cell Research while he kills and murders our troops and other innocent civilians all to play up to his base. He is insane.

[marmar]

2. And the dumbass Bushbots don't make the connection...

There's a fundie freak at work who carps on and on about how he's vetoing the stem cell bill because he cares about life. When you point out the needless deaths in a war based on lies, or leaving people to drown in New Orleans, she doesn't want to hear it.

[atreides1]

3. They make the connection

They just don't hold non-Christians in the same regard, stem cell research is wrong, but killing with bombs is right.

I'll bet she complains about the government providing assistance to the poor?

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. To the American Talibangelicals...

Only "pre-life" is sacred. Once a child is born, these people have little problem throwing him in to the gutter. As the child gets older, he becomes less and less sacred. Once (if) he reach his mid teens, there is no reason not to send him off to die, either on the battlefield or in the electric chair.

[jedicord]

6. Yep, they're not "pro-life" they're only "pro pre-life". n/t

[bvar22]

18. They are not even Pro-Pre-Life.

They are ANTI-CHOICE.
Wimmen should stay in their place and have no opinion about what rich white men do with women's bodies.

[Felinity]

8. "Talibangelicals" I LIKE IT!

And as Randi Rhodes is fond of saying, "they love the fetus, hate the child." Let's face it, these people lack the intellectual capacity to understand the concept of hypocrisy.

If the democrats had any spine, they would refuse to deal with this issue again until January. Let the Chimp in Chief hold the Tar Baby till after the elections. Makes a nice photo op.

Do the Repubs actually think having Nancy Reagan angry with them is going to help save their sorry butts?

[marmar]

5. True...

I'm sure she sees the people of Iraq as somehow less human than she and the other white Christian fundies in her life are....
We've never discussed assistance to the poor (She's probably afraid, because she's surrounded by loud lefties in section of the office) but I'm sure you're right.

[Skittles]

19. yes

especially if the people being killed are brown folk in Iraq or black folk in New Orleans

[geardaddy]

16. He only cares about pre-birth life.

Once that kid is out, he or she is on his own, unless, of course, she or he is born to an oil magnate or other corporatist.

[The Wizard]

30. At what point

do you just say to these freaks, "shut the fuck up?" and write them off as Nazis without the snappy uniforms. And they said it couldn't happen here.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Tony, you forgot to preface it with 'pre-born'. "Bush doesn't want

pre-born human life destroyed." "He thinks pre-born murder is wrong." There, I corrected the statements for you. You see Bush is a strong believer in destroying 'born' human life...by wars, invasions, or death chambers. And of course, 'born' murder is acceptable.

[DemoVet]

9. And I liked this quote:

"What the President has said is that he doesn't want human life destroyed. Now, you may consider that insignificant, but the President has said...(yadda, yadda, yadda)"

Take that, you baby-killing White House press corps!

[swimboy]

10. On Stem Cell Research: The simple answer is he thinks murder is wrong.

On Gay Marriage: The simple answer is he thinks discrimination is swell


All you murder lovers and discrimination haters are free to disagree with him.

:grr:

[formercia]

11. Here's the way it really works.

You deny a woman the right to an abortion, the child is put up for adoption. Those not adopted, for various reasons go into foster care and when they reach the age of consent, they often wind up on the street or going into the military. Thet do this because the kids have few options.
When I was 14, my parents sent me to a school run by the Catholic Church. Most of the 'inmates' there were from broken homes or were not adopted. They fed us mostly government surplus commodities, gave a worthless education and beat the shit out of us if we misbehaved. There was no janitorial staff because the kids did all of the cleaning and maintenance. When you turned 18, they expected you to join the military. I was the only paying student in the school, so I was able to get out of there after a year. I've seen with my own eyes what these cannon fodder mills put out and why they do it.

Protect life, make cannon fodder.

[dkblogger]

12. Texas executes how many a year ?

Texas law on infants on life support: they have 10 days and
either the parents start paying the cost, move infant to
another hospital, or law has them pull the plug. That doesn't
include the programs he's slashing funding for that helps care
for the childen he wants born. "those little suckers best
pull themselves up by their bootey straps or just go hungry
!"  Values life ? WHO'S ?

[Straight Shooter]

13. Whose life does bush value?

Any potential life that contributes to the tax base and the work force and the "cannon fodder" (see post above). All these sick people, all these dying people, they're just not worth the trouble to bush and his cronies. I think the symbol for the GOP should be an ice floe.

You make an excellent point, albeit a very sad one, dkblogger. Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Skittles]

20. YOU KNOW IT, dkblogger

:hi:

[BrewAz]

14. This is a sick man....

Oh the hypocrisy......I have come to the conclusion that the Shrub is a sick, sick man. He clearly is a linear thinker incapable of understanding (or completely disregarding) the implications and consistency of his thinking/actions. I used to think that he was just a moron.....a frat-boy grown up maintaining his Animal House view of the world. After 5+ years of this, I now realize it is a mental deficiency. Brain cells no longer capable of rational reasoning...a man who is still motivated by one of the fraternity bros who has an idea...and then tells Georgie to be the "decider" and act...all for an after prank joke over beers in the cellar.

Should he be...is he on meds?

To think that this man is the president makes me ill...to think that some Americans still support him ...scares me.

BrewAz

[LibDemAlways]

15. When he said the chimp "doesn't want human life

destroyed" Snow left out "except for innocent people in the Middle East who get in the way of empire; US soldiers whose job it is to die in unnecessary, illegal wars so that his corporate cronies can profit; poor people in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast who didn't have the good sense to get in their non-existent vehicles and drive north before the storm hit; elderly people who can't afford their meds; the homeless and desperate who perish on the streets..and on and on..."

The hypocrisy knows no limits.

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

17. K & R n/t

[Canuckistanian]

21. From simple minds come simple answers to complex problems

If they ever get around to ending pointless wars, solving the horrendous murder rates, shutting down all fertility clinics and concentrate on improving the quality and length of life for ALL, THEN I'll believe them when they wave that "pro-life" banner.

[Felinity]

22. POLITICAL STRATEGY ALERT

Could the Rethugs be strategizing? Bush vetos, passing out roasted pig to starving Christofacists. Then they scrape together a few more votes, and override the veto, thereby negating all the "Lemmings to the Sea" performances of the past 6 years.

HEADLINE:

Congress stands up to Bush Administration! They're responding to their constituants--all better now.

Have a little cake, AND eat a little cake. YUMM.

Where's the PIG?

[liberal N proud]

23. Murder is wrong, Yes it is Mr President

300 dead, 1,000 wounded, 500,000 displaced by Israeli attacks,







Tell that to these people mr. bu$h!

[cotdom]

24. always 2 sides to the story!

" it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder; he's one of them."

... unless you are on death row ...

[newyawker99]

26. Hi cotdom!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Rosemary2205]

25. Even Orrin Hatch voted IN FAVOR of embryonic research.

I bet the righties are having a caniption over that one. heh heh.

[IowaGuy]

27. He swore to uphold the constitution and laws of our land....

if he truly believes it is "murder" he is obligated to direct his justice department to press charges for murder. This obviously won't happen because that would take "real commitment" to his words and supposedly loudly preached upon "values". The hypocrisy is so blatantly transparent, it's beyond words or any kind of appropriate description. How anybody could take this obvious phony as a "leader" or person of integrity is beyond my comprehension.

[HockeyMom]

28. The already born's life is worthless

I learned that lesson in a catholic hospital with an ectopic pregnancy. They were more concerned about "killing" a 5 week old embryo than with saving ME. After my tube had ruptured and I had come out of my comma, they sent a priest in to see me. I refused to see him. They sent him in anyway. He said, and I quote, "I know you are bitter about losing your child, but we need to talk." I told him that "we" didn't need to talk. I was not bitter about losing my "child" but was bitter about nearly losing MY LIFE due to their narrow mindedness. Sorry, I would throw myself in front of a car to protect my LIVING, BREATHING children, but I WOULD NOT DIE for an embryo, and a dead one at that. My then three year old daughter needed a mother, far, far more than a sibling.

All of your posts are right on the money. Unborn, POTENTIAL life, is more important to them those already born. I can say this from first hand experience.

[Bushladen]

29. Besides

That wouldn't please the pharmaceutical companies if they couldn't sell their snake oil on TV with every side effect you can imagine which is sometimes worse than your heartburn to begin with. Just think of the money lost over medical treatment.

[calimary]

31. And think of the position the US will no longer have as a world

leader in medical research. Brain drain, anyone?