We must give Romney the opportunity to CLEAN HOUSE!

Cont. When people are terminal it often becomes a burden for their bodies to be forced to take food or even fluids--systems shut down and cannot process nutrients anymore. It is not about money, although if you turn it around, it is certainly easy to charge big bucks to take care of people with no hope of improvement or recovery....they are pretty compliant and they don't complain. Again: it does NOT mean any life is not valuable! It means people do die and forcing them to stay "alive" to further the denial of their families is awful.

I read nearly every comment here, and I have yet to see mention of the fact that Terri was TERMINALLY ILL. As a Hospice nurse, I can vouch for the fact that there are very specific guidelines for whether a person is terminal. As one of the neurologists said at the time, if a person cannot talk, understand, eat, drink, take care of one's basic needs, walk, turn over, or otherwise function in ANY meaningful way, one IS terminally ill. Keeping people "alive" under those circumstances is cruel and pointless. NO ONE said Terri's life had no value because she was so severely compromised! Of course her life had value. But it is disingenuous to assert that she was starved or dehydrated to death. The autopsy revealed that her brain was gel.

Public school?

Says you.

CBS/NYT! Haha! Hilarous!

"Most people" must be in a fugue state. Gas $4 + ? ($1.83 when Bush left office) The National Debt tripled? Largest deficit in our history? 2 million jobs lost, tens of thousands denied with the squashing of the pipeline? The trashing of the Constitution and the strangling of our former freedom? If you think most people are fine with that, and if indeed they are and they re-elect this slug (without resorting to fraud, which is already fully loaded), then they will get, as some wise person once said, the government they deserve.

Well that is just so unfair. ;)

No you aren't. As a white Christian woman, I would jump at the chance to vote for any of the following for President: Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Alan West, J.C. Watts, and a number of other black conservatives who get it. I consider myself intellectually superior to lefties, not a particular race. That is because I am a grown-up, a conservative, and an AMERICAN, not some self-involved, immature, communist Western European wannabe.,

Honest Lib (oxymoron, get it?) is ALWAYS tongue-firmly-in-cheek.