A favorite formula that allows politicians to state a value and take a swipe at the opposition in the same sentence might read: "We can (insert proposition here)
For example: We can give health insurance to every American without overburdening the middle class with increasing taxes. Or, We can defend freedom without sacrificing one American life.
Little wonder that politicians are considered to lack basic honesty.
Ron Reagan at the DNC suggested that embryonic stem-cell research can be conducted without killing one fetus. Of course he understands the linguistic loophole he created. For he also must know that the research cannot be done without killing embryos. He is certain that innocent babies labeled embryo have no intrinsic value, a presumption that makes his position defensible in his own view. Such embryos do, in his view, have a only mechanistic value. Reagan took a swipe at the Pope, the Catholic Church and other pro-life Christians when he moralistically scolded those who oppose the sacrifice of human embryos as building their theology to stand in the way of huge medical advances.
What a shame that someone with the Reagan name is confusing moralism, the judging of values, with the moral virtue of standing in defense of defenseless babies.
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