{"id":198626,"date":"2007-10-23T05:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/23\/fred-thompson-not-a-clown-show-this-time\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T05:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T10:14:00","slug":"fred-thompson-not-a-clown-show-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/23\/fred-thompson-not-a-clown-show-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thompson, Not a Clown Show This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson had to pull the plug on his daughter after she overdosed on prescription drugs, and he takes a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">VERY<\/span> dim view of how the Republicans acted on the Terri Sciavo matter (<a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/10\/thompson_discusses_daughters_death_criticizes_government_on_schiavo.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Vote2008\/story?id=3761372&amp;page=1\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;I had to make those decisions with the rest of my family,&#8221; said Thompson. &#8220;And I will assure you one thing: No matter which decision you make, you will never know whether or not you made exactly the right decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talking to a reporter in Florida, Thompson was harshly critical of the political decisions made in the case, saying that there should not be a role for any level of government beyond the judiciary&#8217;s authority to adjudicate disputes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have on a number of occasions made light of his campaign, my recurring &#8220;clown show&#8221; heds come to mind, but what we have here is a candidate with experience on a matter saying what he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that it appears that he had been dodging this question for some time, though I get the sense that this is because it is painful, and not out of political expediency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson had to pull the plug on his daughter after she overdosed on prescription drugs, and he takes a VERY dim view of how the Republicans acted on the Terri Sciavo matter (here and here): &#8220;I had to make those decisions with the rest of my family,&#8221; said Thompson. &#8220;And I will assure you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}