Does anyone else not give a sh*t about Schiavo?

[Comicstripper]

I genuinely don't care. At all.
People die all the time. I don't care about her. If she had wanted to be "unplugged" as it were, then do it. Why this is such a huge issue, this ONE woman, is completely beyond me.
I understand that it's for political reasons, and the low approval ratings over the congressional hoopla explain Jeb's backing down.
I'm sort of glad, really, since it's doing so much damage to Bush and to congress. But why is this issue damagin Bush and not every one of his other failures?
In short, I don't agree that this is "a highly emotional issue for both sides." It ought to be highly emotional for the family, and it is.
I. Don't. Care.

[Blue_Tires]

1. i don't

i haven't followed this story once since it first made news last spring...i could care less if she lives or dies.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Usually, Congress doesn't interfere in civil lawsuits.

Especially not with a bill which names a person.

[HockeyMom]

5. my concern too - Congress

and Randall Terry and what kind of power he and his followers are now yielding with our government.

[wtmusic]

3. Here

especially when in the three weeks this has been back in the news, over half a million otherwise healthy Africans have starved to death.

Perspective. Please.

[kweerwolf]

4. I agree

I don't have cable, so I don't get to see the "death watch" on FAUX News. My only exposure to it is when the networks carry a report. Frankly, here in the Midwest it's not really much of an issue at all.

To me, the only interesting part of it is to hear about the religious reich working itself up into a frothy tizzy about it (and BuchCo, et. al. try to distance themselves from a lose-lose situation.

[dameocrat]

6. What about the people who die but wouldn't have

because they don't have health insurance. This is really shitty prioritizing, but by posting on her all the time, the dems are giving the extreme right wing this meme.

[DireStrike]

7. I only care to see what the fundies will (through government) do.

Terri died years ago. I don't care for the skin cells I wash off in the shower, and I don't care for the lump of flesh that, today, is "Terri".

What's interesting is to see what lengths THEY will go to in forcing their morals on others through government. How much will the American people tolerate?

[MrModerate]

8. I give a mild shit, but only because . . .

Her suffering has been flung in my face and it's hard to ignore. Simple empathy calls for some response.

And . . . it's become a Very Big Deal socially/politically, which hits me where I live.

If the parents had any decency or dignity, they would have duked this out in relative privacy, and gotten the hint when court after court rebuked their arguments. But no, they're massive shitheads and now we have a media circus -- with Schimpanski as the animal act.

But about the lady herself? Not much. A sadness that such a thing could happen . . .

[StephanieMarie]

9. Ithink it's time for her to go to God

[MoonRiver]

10. When I hear a sad story about somebody dying, I always tear up.

But has my world been turned upside down by Terri Schiavo's saga: NO. And frankly, I believe the tragic events that comprise Terri's life over the last 15 years and her imminent death, are magnets for the clinically insane.

[Left Is Write]

11. And there is this -

From MSNBC.com:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7301872/

Bush’s delayed public reaction to the shooting stood in contrast to his swift and high-profile intervention this week to prolong the life of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman in Florida whose feeding tube was removed.

....

While White House spokesman Scott McClellan spoke briefly about the shooting Tuesday, Bush did not respond publicly for days while he focused on Schiavo’s fate, critics say.

Clyde Bellecourt, a Chippewa Indian who is the founder and national director of the American Indian Movement in Red Lake, said Bush’s response came too late. “He should have been the first one to reach out to the Red Lake Indian community,” he said.

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What does that tell us about this country and its president? A white woman in a hospice - in whose situation the federal government had NO RIGHT to interfere (and that, for me, is the real issue of the Schiavo case) - is far more important and deserving of the president's time and attention than some little shooting on a Northern Minnesota reservation.

[fasttense]

12. Oh thank God a sane person.

I don't give two hoots or a holler if this woman lives or dies. I never cared, I must be heartless but she has no effect on my life and I have no effect on hers. People are dying in far worse conditions under far worse pain than she. The awful fact that people think it's any of their business is totally beyond me. This family tragedy should have stayed in the family.

P.S. I also don't care about the Michael Jackson trial or the Robert Blake trial.

[donco6]

13. ZZZzzzzz . . . snort . . . Who?

Get my drift.

[femme.democratique]

14. I only care because this is a trial balloon for the NeoCon freaks...

...to see how well government intervention into and control over private affairs, a core priciple of fascism, flies with the people. I think this is important not because of Terri Schiavo, because of what this means in the big picture of the downward spiral this country is experiencing. Make sense?

[natrat]

19. and apparently folks dont dig it

but fascists are probably gaging resistance so they know how hard they will have to push

[The Devils Advocate]

15. Its interesting in the abstract, but not emotional.

So I guess that means that I don't "care", but I find the arguing on both sides to be fascinating.

[jdj]

16. it's an attack on the judiciary and an attempt to make dems scared to

filibuster judicial nominees. Not to mention an attempt to gain ground on overturning Roe v. Wade.

So we definitely should care.

[natrat]

17. i dont give a shit about the story, but i guess it has ramifications

but i feel for her, she should be allowed peace at the end of her life

[mondo joe]

18. If not for the threat to civil rights it would be a non issue for many of

us.

[earth mom]

20. Yeah, I'm DONE with it...

Sorry, but at this point, it's just another little smoke screen so that * & Co can continue to work on shoving SS down peoples throats while no ones paying attention...absorbed as they are in the "drama" of the Schiavo case. :eyes: