[tomder55]

September 02, 2009
Sarah Palin vs. Dr. Death
By Stuart Schwartz

Ezekiel Emanuel is upset. The president's health care czar sees the growing resistance to his vision, to his brave new world of government-run "communitarian" health care in which politicians and bureaucrats control one-sixth of the economy and 100% of our bodies. He doesn't quite understand how it all came apart on him, but he does know who started the unraveling: Sarah Palin.


Where does she get off attacking him? Sarah Palin, it seems forever Sarah Palin. And he wonders, as have so many others, what it takes to put a stake through her heart? People should listen to him, not Sarah Palin. He is the philosopher king of Democrat health care. And he went to Harvard, you know.


One day he was vacationing in the Italian Alps, a top-level government bureaucrat and Democrat insider enjoying the fruits of his labors on behalf of the common good. Government health care was cruising and Zeke was the guy Time magazine predicted will build the most "equitable and ethical" health care system north of Cuba. Marty Peretz, his friend and publisher of The New Republic, described him as quintessential Harvard, "very impressive" and stuffed with "gravitas."


And then he got the call: Sarah Palin had done the unthinkable. She had read the health care bill. Mainstream journalists hadn't read the bill. Congress hadn't read its own bill. But Sarah Palin did. Sarah Palin! He has a medical degree and doctorate in political philosophy from Harvard. The only Harvard she's knows is the chunk of ice off Prince William Sound, Harvard Glacier.


Then she writes something on Facebook -- Facebook, for Obama's sake! -- and suddenly the president, congress, the media, and everyone who is anyone inside the beltway is scurrying for cover. Palin wrote that she wanted nothing to do with Obama's "death panel," the collection of bureaucrats who Zeke was so proudly putting together to assess the "level of productivity" that would determine individual access to medical care


They went after her, but... it was over. Everyone was talking death panels. Sarah Palin had let people know: if you're old, if you're sick, if you're disabled, they're targeting you. It became Mrs. Mom vs. Dr. Death, the governor vs. the terminator.


She cut through the rhetoric, the academic jargon, and adoring press to the truth: Ezekiel Emanuel and Barack Obama and the Democrat-led Congress are putting in place a health care system that will control the lives -- and deaths -- of citizens to an extent never seen in this republic. Her reaction:"we're saying not just no, but hell no!


And Zeke is upset. A slam-dunk had been transformed into an epic battle and, as an American Thinker commentator put it, ObamaCare turned into a "sick joke." That's not how it's supposed to be -- he went to Harvard, you know.


Ezekiel Emanuel "abhors" what she's done. She read his articles, which "even well-educated people" would have a difficult time understanding. And she's certainly not well educated. She's a graduate of the University of Idaho, where they probably write doctoral dissertations in crayon. And she only has a bachelor's degree -- in communications, for Obama's sake!?


It's as if the waitress at the Harvard Faculty Club had, instead of a check, taken out a baseball bat and cold-cocked him. Or the ball girl at the tennis event sponsored by the Harvard Club of Washington DC had reared back and smacked a Dunlop A-Player right into his groin. This is not supposed to happen -- he went to Harvard, you know.


This is crazy! People are packing town halls in protest. They are listening to Sarah Palin and not Zeke, who has been a fellow at Oxford -- the one in England, not the suburb of Fairbanks. And he has written nine books, almost a dozen chapters in other books, and more than 225 other pieces on bioethics and morality. And certified as a genius by The New York Times, which hired him as a book reviewer for its Sunday newspaper


And yet, this, this... this Facebook writer described his thinking as "downright evil." And demanded that he explain why he's trying to put in place centralized health care that "would refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential."


Evil!? Sarah Palin called him evil!? She said "death panels," he didn't. Hey, some lives are worth more to society than others. Therefore, health services cannot be guaranteed for individuals like Trig, Palin's baby with Down Syndrome, who are "irreversibly prevented" from contributing to the public good. There is a subtle difference.


Sarah Palin simply does not understand. No nuance. She did not go to Harvard, nor is she a board member of Princeton University's Center for Human Values, where Zeke provides support for philosopher Peter Singer. Singer is best known for the view that fetuses and many disabled have less of a right to live than, say, fully functioning humans and "adult gorillas and chimpanzees." No, Zeke believes that those who know better, who understand morality, should make decisions for those less able to do so.


Like Sarah Palin. Like Trig. Like your grandma. And this is because he cares. Just ask him: "I hope at the end of the day I can make things better for people, especially vulnerable people." As an original member of the academic " As an original member of the academic " movement, he has pledged to establish "just" movement, he has pledged to establish "nondemocratic or practice discrimination." health care by means that are "baby with Down Syndrome" A just society doesn't simply happen, he explains. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs... so to speak.


So when Sarah Palin says she doesn't want her "complete life" to stand in front of his medical panels... that shows just how unsophisticated her thinking really is. She has already made the anti-social choice of giving birth to a child with a severe disability, who will never be able to live the "bleak choices." outlined by Zeke on behalf of the government.


Therefore, it is the responsibility of a health care system that operates in the public good to deny Trig -- or grandma, for that matter -- health services that are better used elsewhere. Sarah Palin, not the government, is to blame. She chose to have Trig. She forced a situation that provides her with, as Zeke puts it, "complete life" value scale. It is the best way, the moral way, the smart way.


And Zeke knows smart -- he went to Harvard, you know.


Stuart H. Schwartz, Ph.D. is a former newspaper and retail executive. He is on the faculty at Liberty University in Virginia.

[galveston]

Tom, thanks for posting that article by Dr. Schwartz.

In redneck vernacular, this might be called "A whole can of whup-a**".

[ETWolverine]

Tom, thanks for posting that article by Dr. Schwartz.

In redneck vernacular, this might be called "A whole can of whup-a**".

More like a 6-pack...

Great article.

[galveston]

This guy puts it well, too.
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman


As posted in comments on Greta VanSussteren's article referencing to the MOVEON ad about

Sarah Palin


By Dewey Whetsell


The last 45 of my 66 years I've spent in a commercial fishing town in

Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics

Well until this last year. Here's the breaking point: Neither side of the

Palin controversy gets it. It's not about persona, style, rhetoric, it's

About doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I'm

About to mention here.


1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as

Soon as Palin took the Governor's office away from a fellow Republican and

Tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican's "Corrupt Bastards

Club" (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State

Housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping

Around the yard, throwing confetti and singing "la la la la" (well, you know

How they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done

Anything similar. But while you're thinking, I'll continue.


2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect

The huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed and enacted a new

System of splitting the oil profits called "ACES". Exxon (the biggest

Corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them "don't let the door

hit you in the stern on your way out." They stayed, and Alaska residents

Went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course the other

Huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the

Name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.


3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor's office is she

Got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as

"pork". She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the

"when-hell-freezes-over" stack. She let locals know that if we need

Something built, we'll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use

The money she got from selling the previous governor's jet because it was

Extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the

Governor's cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving

Back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a

Car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning-I

Imagine-that she's packing heat herself). I'm still waiting to hear the

Names of those other governors.


4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed "gosh and golly" mannerism, she also

Managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas

Pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the

History of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If

That doesn't impress you, then you're trying too hard to be unimpressed

While watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies

With her other hand.


5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place

Called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn't

Start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No

Governor for 30 years could make them get started. This summer, she told

Them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and

Threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the

Way to the court house. Alaska won again.


6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for

Electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan

For Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can

Give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona .

Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that's just a

Cover-up. I'm still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other

Governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won't

Be holding my breath.


By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election

And go to work, but the haters wouldn't let her. Now these adolescent

Screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what

Happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it

Will spin around and tear your face off. Should have known better.

[inthebox]

Evil!? Sarah Palin called him evil!? She said "death panels," he didn't. Hey, some lives are worth more to society than others. Therefore, health services cannot be guaranteed for individuals like Trig, Palin's baby with Down Syndrome, who are "irreversibly prevented" from contributing to the public good. There is a subtle difference.

....

So when Sarah Palin says she doesn't want her "baby with Down Syndrome" to stand in front of his medical panels... that shows just how unsophisticated her thinking really is. She has already made the anti-social choice of giving birth to a child with a severe disability, who will never be able to live the "complete life" outlined by Zeke on behalf of the government.


Therefore, it is the responsibility of a health care system that operates in the public good to deny Trig -- or grandma, for that matter -- health services that are better used elsewhere. Sarah Palin, not the government, is to blame. She chose to have Trig. She forced a situation that provides her with, as Zeke puts it, "bleak choices."


And so government, for the sake of the common good, may deny Trig medical care. And may do the same with the elderly, the severely disabled, and others who fall low on the "complete life" value scale. It is the best way, the moral way, the smart way.


And Zeke knows smart -- he went to Harvard, you know.


Stuart H. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a former newspaper and retail executive. He is on the faculty at Liberty University in Virginia.

If Sarah Palin had not CHOSEN LIFE for Trig, would she have been as... what is Obama's term?. EMPATHETIC for those truly in need of help - the sick, the elderly, the disabled etc.


Where is the empathy from Obama and Emanuel and their "death panel?"






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[Wondergirl]

If Sarah Palin had not CHOSEN LIFE for Trig, would she have been as .... what is Obama's term? ........ EMPATHETIC for those truly in need of help - the sick, the elderly, the disabled etc.?

Palin's choosing not to abort Trig doesn't prove she has empathy. I can't think of one thing she has done to show she's empathetic.

[Catsmine]

Palin's choosing not to abort Trig doesn't prove she has empathy. I can't think of one thing she has done to show she's empathetic.

Is that a bad thing?

[Wondergirl]

Is that a bad thing?

Is WHAT a bad thing?