Lanny Davis, former Attorney for President Clinton, on the Bill O'Reilly Show when interviewed about the Schiavo case (today Mar 27th) basically shocked his usual audience (not Reilly's) of centrist Democratic listeners when he said he did not understand the husband's interest in hastening Schiavo's death particularly when he felt the parents were willing to help her continue living. I am just loosely paraphrasing what Davis said but I can't help but wonder where he is getting his information on the case. It is obvious by his remarks that Davis does not trust the motives of Terri Schiavo's husband Michael and has decided to defend the likes of Tom De Lay and the other right wing religious zealots on this issue. O'Reilly thanked him at the end of the show for being on the right side and O'Reilly is correct to thank Davis for siding with the very right on this issue. (By the way I do not listen to O'Reilly just looked up the interview up after seeing a quick flash of Lani Davis' statement on the matter mentioned on the tv news).
Davis feels there is some connection with the Schiavo case and the right of prisoners on death row. I fail to see the connection but he must feel there is some legal precedence here and that by losing the case, death row inmates will not get their numerous chances to appeal their convictions. O'Reilly mentioned he does not believe in the death penalty so the two of them are closer on these issues than one might expect from his point of view. Davis also mentioned arguing with his own son about the case. Good to know someone in his family has some common sense. In this case, I think Davis has taken leave of his senses and is not grasping
or empathizing with the real victim in his case, Terri Schiavo. Does he not understand there is no dignity or even grace in this kind of mental lifelessness?
To keep Terri Schiavo alive is the selfish act of two parents who can only think of their own needs not their daughters.
Davis must be very unfamiliar with the dying process to take this stand on the Schiavo case. It is a real last minute surprise. I don't want to make it seem as though I think all liberal leaning folks and I am not sure how liberal Lanny Davis is (probably more in the middle) should walk in lockstep on any one issue but I have to say his lack of insight into this case really takes the cake. I can see someone saying there might be some gray area in regard to this case but not on the points Davis brought out in the interview. Davis said we should err in the favor of life.
I say that is wrong when it is clear there is no life being lived that adds up to anything any of us would sensibly want for ourselves. These people who actas though they are pro-life are in dreamland.To be Pro-life should mean wishing for a good life at least an awareness of life as long as we can have it and when that is gone to be able to let go. I'd sure like to know what's up with Lani Davis.
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