First Hack

by digby

I have never been one to criticize Laura Bush. I actually feel a little bit sorry for the woman, considering to whom she’s married. I always feel a little bit sorry for Republican wives (except Lynn Cheney…)

But now she’s pissed me off. Via Vegacura and Olberman I see she said of Michael J. Fox that “it’s always easy to manipulate people’s feelings with these awful diseases.”

No, Mrs. Moron it is not manipulation for someone who has a disease to speak out as for treatment or cure of that disease. It’s called advocacy and everytime one of your military widows or one of your preachers do it, it’s the same thing. I’m sorry it’s uncomfortable for your blastocyst worshipping political party to be faced with the real human result of their religious beliefs, but you’re just going to have to face people and explain why a clump of cells that are going to be thrown away are worth more than living, breathing people.

There are a lot of heroes in this election, but my personal vote goes to Michael J. Fox. It takes guts to go up against the GOP character assassination machine and that guy did it with humor and nobility. I hope for their sakes that all those heartless losers who went after him, including the first lady, who didn’t have the class to stay out of the mud, never have to face what he is facing. They don’t have the character to deal with it and they don’t care about curing it. It was one of the lowest things I’ve ever seen.

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