[Bush] also suggested, three days after telling a March for Life rally that he could see the "glimmerings" of a nation in which every child is "welcomed in life and protected in law," that he was resigned for now to the continued availability of abortion and that his role would be to show moral leadership rather than advance specific anti-abortion initiatives.
"I think the goal ought to be to convince people to value life," Mr. Bush said. "But I fully understand our society is divided on the issue and that there will be abortions. That's reality. It seems like to me my job is to convince people to make right choices in life, to understand there are alternatives to abortion, like adoption, and I will continue to do so."
Hahahahahaha! There you go “values” voters! Hey, he’s against abortion, but he ain’t going to do anything about it because of political “reality”. Just like gay marriage...
What a fucking wasted vote.
We won't even get into the hilarity of Bush, the drunken, coke snorting, tail chasing, bidness busting, ne're do well, guy who never held a day job until he was in his forties, telling anyone about making the right choices in life.
We won't bring up that "thing", you know, with the "doctor" and the girl, in Texas, in the 70's...
But the funniest thing, from the King Of All Bullshitters, is that he thinks his job is to convince people to value life.
This is the former Texas governor who set a record for signing death warrants.
Here’s part of a letter from Karla Faye Tucker, a highschool dropout and drug addict, who killed two people in Texas. She wrote this to Governor Bush, after she had spent fourteen years in prison, got off drugs, found God, and, by all accounts, had been a remorseful and model prisoner. She was asking Bush to commute her death sentence into a life sentence:
If you decide you must carry out this execution, do it based solely on the brutality and heinousness of my crime. But please don't do it based on me being a future threat to society (one of the two questions that had to be answered in my trial in order for a death sentence to be issued), because I am definitely no longer a threat to our society, and in fact I believe I am a positive contributor to our society and helping others.
There are things I have done in here over the years to prove, certainly to others who know me, that I am no longer the same person I was fourteen-1/2 years ago, and that now I can and do help people instead of hurt them.
When I gave my heart to Jesus I had a desire to learn, to go back to school. I did go back. I got my G.E.D., went to college (until they cut out school for us). I wanted to reach out and help my victims, to make retribution in any way they might ask it from me…
My change, my transformation and rehabilitation was never meant to manipulate anything or anyone. My change causes me to live each day for the Lord and for helping others. I have an abundant life, even in this prison, because it is deep down inside of me where the Lord abides. I pray though, that this change will make a difference in your decision, just as I believe a non transformation would have counted severely against me.
In this, I, like King David when asking God, dare to ask you, Honorable Governor Bush and parole board members, to please commute my sentence to life and allow me to carry on with my husband in the ministry of love and healing and rehabilitation in the lives of others.
Allow me, through this change, to help others make better choices and to change for the better also. I am truly sorry for what I did. I will never harm another person again in my life, not even trying to protect myself. I pray God will help you believe all that I have shared and will help you decide to commute my sentence to life in prison.
And the good Governor, who values life, who once said, “When you accept Jesus, it changes your heart”, read that letter, valued life a little bit, thought about how Jesus had changed his heart, considered how Jesus might change Karla Faye's heart, then he said, "Fuck it" and put her to death.
Then he laughed about it with Tucker Carlson.
That's how much Bush values life. That's how much Bush values Jesus.
So, there you are, “values” voters—that’s the monster you put in the White House. And he doesn’t intend to do shit for you. Election’s over, rubes.
I'll tell you one thing Bush doesn't value--Bush doesn't value you suckers anymore.
Murder is murder. She should've thought about her sentence BEFORE killing two people. Think about it: If everyone on death row decided they were suddenly religious, wrote to their own governors with inspirational letters of rebirth, and asked to be let out, can you imagine the crime rate then? Though I am sad that Karla Faye was put to death, if she was certain in her faith, she is happier now than she was while she was alive. I think the president is a just and moral man who does what he thinks is right for our country and in his own faith.
Posted by: Jen | January 29, 2005 at 12:47 AM
Har! Then what's the point of baptism? What does being re-born mean?
George W. Bush has led an admittedly--and by that, of course, I mean, he admitted it--less than exemplary life, but has said Jesus changed his heart, changed his life. And that all that bad stuff he did in the past was "old news". He should be forgiven.
And a guy who says accepting Christ into his heart requires he be forgiven can't find it in his heart to commute a fellow Christian???
He's isn't a moral man. And he ain't much of a Christian.
He fucking laughed about killing her.
And that wasn't written by the "liberal" media. That was reported by that bow tie wearing, conservative geek Tucker Carlson.
How do you feel about that?
Posted by: ricky | January 29, 2005 at 12:58 AM
And she wasn't exactly "asking to be let out," she was asking to spend the rest of her life in a Texas prison! A life she had, by all accounts (including those of evangelical Christians, who were largely sympathetic to her conversion and works!) turned around, providing service to others while never trying to weasel out of her crimes.
Try actually reading ricky's link, and this and then with a straight face call the Yellow Rose "a just and moral man who does what he thinks is right for our country and in his own faith." What he thinks is that he can do anything, anything at all, that flickers across his damaged brain (and if you doubt that, watch his speeches when he was running in Texas, and watch him now!) and not be held accountable, indeed that he should not be held accountable.
Sheesh
Posted by: Jerry | January 29, 2005 at 03:21 AM
That's right Jen "Murder is murder." and Bush (and all the voters of Texas) murdered Karla Faye. As any Christian knows, Jesus said, "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also" and, "Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful." and, "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you.... For the measure you give will be the measure you get back." and "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone...". Jesus was all about forgiveness, Bush never met Jesus and he is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
"can you imagine the crime rate then?" What do you mean? If there were no death penalty would you be murdering, raping, stealing, and taking drugs?
Posted by: Donna | January 29, 2005 at 12:59 PM
Absolutely, I would!
When Bush killed that Christian lady, Texas became a crime free zone.
Posted by: ricky | January 29, 2005 at 01:13 PM
Thanks, Donna. I couldn't have said it better.
Posted by: Ellen | January 29, 2005 at 06:05 PM