Tony Snow said, [The President] does have objections with spending federal money on something that is morally objectionable to many Americans.

Does that mean the President is now opposed to the Iraqi war?

Is the bar morally objectionable to 'many' people. Come on Tony. Come on Dubya. Define the criteria by which you decide what is morally objectionable. If the central criteria is moral objection by some number of people, feel free to choose from among the many policies and actions of this administration that I for one and 'many' of us find not morally objectionable, but morally reprehensible.

Bush sidesteps and two steps by further qualifying his objection and limits his opposition in the narrow context of federally funded research. He'll use, misuse, and misappropriate federal funding for a bevy of at least ethically and in my humble opinion morally questionable ventures at the expense of supporting stem cell research which a clear majority support and research that has enormous potential to save lives and improve lives.

Finally and not without notice, Snow and Dubya slow a profound lack of ignorance of not only stem cells by also research involving stem cells.

So not even, "A majority of Americans find it morally objectionable" but "many". That is the basis for governing now? So the fact that a MAJORITY of americans find what we are doing on foreign soils, morally objectionable... Where does that get us? Or morally objectionable, the way the White house repeatedly does whatever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want... I object to that.

Poor Tony. It's hard work in his new job. It was so much easier when he was a pretend newsman at FOX "news." Back then, he didn't have to think twice about flinging polarizing rhetoric any way he liked. He could dish it out over the cable and there would be no blowback.

Those were the good old days. It must be so frustrating for him now to have to measure each and every niggling little word lest he be questioned by a bunch of ankle-biting reporters and pundits.

Back at FOX, if he accused Democrats of championing the murder of innocent little snowflake babies, his boss would have sent him an "attaboy" memo. So Tony's feelings must be hurt when instead of a pat on the head, he gets an ass-chewing from his new boss and has to be humiliated before millions of viewers for being a boob.

If the President believes that an embryo is a human life. Then how can he NOT believe that stem cell research is murder?

The president is no different then most Americans. They want it both ways. They don't like abortion and want to talk about how bad it us. Until their daughter get's pregnant by some loser. They want to say stem cell research and murder until they go in for their in vitro treatments. I have a friend who has had in vitro but is anti stem cell research. They just don’t see the disconnect.

From the people who brought us widespread use of torture and the waging of unnecessary war with a military and intelligence agencies paid for by ALL American taxpayers...they can claim "morally objectionable to some" as the bar for policy-making? And say this with a straight face and not a shred of a sense of irony? Good presidentin' there. Good press briefering too, Tony.

Since when?

Not only does he pander, he lies.

There is only one thing more confoundingly stupid than the president's position on stem cell research: Tony Snow's explanations of the present's position. What the president really means is that he does not approve of using federal funds to support research that his political base does not support, but he approves of privately funded research to appease the majority of Americans. In claiming the 'destruction of life' is not the same as murder, Snow is standing waist deep in the slippery slop the rest of us know as Bushshit. Snow, however, doesn't seem to smell smell it.

The only reason these guys continue to talk out of both sides of their mouths is because every reporter/journalist allows them to. On Meet the Press, Russert asked Josh Bolten if the President thought embryonic stem cell research amounted to murder. When Bolten responded by asking Russert to please indulge him to provide a long winded explanation, Russert should have responded by saying that he will not indulge him, and that it is a simple yes/no question that deserves to be answered.

They make decisions that completely defy logic to simply placate their base. Anyone who has any degree of brain matter can see that George Bush doesn't give two shits about human life, much less a frozen embryo that is about to be destroyed anyway.

So they take a position they don't even agree with themselves to appease their base, and the media allows them to concoct a rationale for doing so that is completely at odds with the rationale their base has for taking that position.

They cannot even claim the actual rationale they took their position (i.e. their base feels that the destruction of an embryonic stem cell is murder) because they know, like everyone else does, that the rationale is crazily indefensible.

Where does the President stand on the billions of federal dollars (much borrowed) spent on a war many Americans find morally objectionable? How does that percentage stack up against the number of Americans who find stem cell research morally objectionable?

Both cost innocent "human lives". Perhaps if stem cells forwarded, "The March To Freedom," we'd be gutting those innocent blastocysts like wolves on a kill.

Brian Whitlock

Of course, some do not.

So, Mr. Snow, why does this adminstration support spending federal money on that Iraq war? How are the Iraq war and stem cell research different, in this regard?

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LEGISLATIVE gwb and Tidies

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Murder is NOT really KILLING after all:

burned bodies of children in Iraq,

in Lebanon,

in Israel,

in GOD WE TRUST,

this is our Job, Isaiah.

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