Jewel Robertson – 8/1/06

This page was last updated on August 1, 2006.

Bush doesn’t care about life; Jewel Robertson; Beaver County Times; August 1, 2006.

This is at least the fourth anti-Bush letter from Ms. Robertson since November 2004, though the first since January 2005. In her first letter, Ms. Robertson opined that President Bush could be listening to Satan. That tells us much of what we need to know about Ms. Robertson.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“The recent letter writer who defended President Bush’s veto of the stem-call [sic] legislation apparently has forgotten that Bush had sent thousands of young men and women into Iraq to die for oil, and for no other reason.”

[RWC] Please, Ms. Robertson, come up with an original talking point or at least provide some credible evidence “that [President] Bush … sent thousands of young men and women into Iraq to die for oil, and for no other reason.”

As a devoted Bush bashers, Ms. Robertson doesn’t want us to know what President Bush vetoed. President Bush fully supports stem cell research and provided federal funding for adult stem cell research. He is the first president to do so. President Bush chose not to provide federal funding for embryonic stem cells harvested past a certain date. This does not prevent harvesting of embryonic stem cells or funding of embryonic stem cell research by the private sector. Ms. Robertson doesn’t want you to know that, either.

“He vetoed that bill because he knows there are people like the writers who will support him and forget that young men and women are still being blown up in Iraq. They should visit the veterans’ hospitals where young people are there without eyes, limbs and minds all messed up because of Bush’s war.”

[RWC] I wonder if Ms. Robertson visits those hospitals. President Bush does.

“He has to do something to satisfy people like those who gave him his second term. That is his way of saying, ‘I am not the bad guy you think I am.’”

[RWC] This paragraph makes no sense. I think it’s safe to say people who believed President Bush was a “bad guy” didn’t vote for him, and people who believe President Bush is a “bad guy” tended to oppose the veto. Besides, since at least 2001, President Bush has opposed federal funding for new lines of embryonic stem cells.

“Don’t let him fool you. He doesn’t care about anyone’s life but his own and his family’s. Nothing is to be gained for us as our soldiers continue to die and get maimed in Iraq.”

[RWC] What a mean-spirited comment. Disagree with Ms. Robertson and you’re a monster who listens to Satan.

“Lives are being saved by stem cell research. Who knows, one day their lives might be one of them.”

[RWC] It’s true lives are being saved by stem cell research, but not embryonic stem cell research, at least not yet.