Fred Thompson has lymphoma AND he has 2 small children - should he run for office?

[papau]

2 small children - ages 3 and 7 months. Why doesn't he want to spend the time he has left watching his kids grow up - do we want that kind of moral values in the WhiteHouse? Do we want to worry about his VP taking over?

Why would the part of the GOP that distrusts those folks on the Council on Foreign Relations want Fred - who is part of the Council on Foreign Relations?

And he hired Rove smear and fear and make up facts "op-po" reseacher Tim Griffin as his campaign manager - a fellow that some say should be in jail - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9QWpCWbbY

Does the GOP just want a Hollywood script reader that has played the part of the President and has shown love of Bush/Cheney by being fund raiser for their boy Scooter?

Won't the Democrats paint him as a hypocrite after he attacked Michael Moore for taking 9-11 workers to Cuba for medical care, while he hasstacks of Cuban cigars in his office? Does the GOP care about trade with Cuba? Does our Media care about Fred's mis-steps?

Ar least with Fred in the race, Edwards should no longer get GOP remarks about his wife's illness meaning he should drop out.

[Thrill]

1. How old is his wife?

How old is his wife?

[SharonAnn]

3. Much younger than Fred

[Berry Cool]

6. She's 40. n/t

[Thrill]

14. Are they Fred's kids or the Milk Man's?

[smalll]

18. Papa Bear and Goldilocks!

Decades of lobbying money, Hollywood access, network stardom and Presidential potential to boot? Doink-doink!... that's "just right!"

[smalll]

17. ... three small children, you're right.

[Blueberry_raspberry]

2. Why do old farts have kids?

When the 7 month old is 15, Fred Thompson will be ... old.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Because they can afford it....

...and because they are still trying to prove that their jiz is as spunky as a 25-year olds. Here's the poster guy for old men having babies at a terminal age:



Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, who fathered a child at 77 and is pictured at 84 just prior to his death.

[Blueberry_raspberry]

9. So kids lost father at age 7. Sad.

I think Scotty of star trek fathered kid(s) at very advanced age.

[Berry Cool]

4. "The time he has left"?

You mean, like, 10, 20, whatever years?

I mean, he's 60something, so I'm taking the average male lifespan into account. (An average lifespan is what he's supposed to have, given the nature of his particular type of lymphoma.)

[MsUnderstood]

7. dumbest . . .arguement. . .ever

the elderly shouldn't buy a car, refinance their home, go on a trip, leave their house.

If you are sick . . .just stay in bed. Nobody wants to see you lead a normal life.

Discuss the mans politics not his personal life.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

8. if it's a fair question for Elizabeth and John Edwards it's fair for Thomson

the press made a big deal out of Elizabeth Edward's illness; fred should get the same scrutiny

[liberal N proud]

11. It would be more relevant for the candidate than his/her spouse

If the candidate is running to be the President their health is of concern. Their spouse not so much so.

But the fundies will twist it all around to make black white and up down just like they have for 6+ years.

[MsUnderstood]

16. that assumes the question is fair

and it wasn't a fair question to ask about edward's health. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

[aquart]

10. But...but...he looks so strong and wise on TV.

Like the Terminator, but more effete.

[jenmarie]

12. On top of everything else

he's a dangerous liar.

The Bush Administration's Dilemma Regarding a Possible Libby Pardon - And How Outsiders Such as Fred Thompson Appear to Be Working on a Solution

By JOHN W. DEAN

~ snip ~

Frankly, I am not only stunned that Fred Thompson has taken up the "Free Scooter" campaign, but by the crude and thoughtless tactics he has employed. He has either lied or could not be troubled to inform himself of the facts before he attacked Special Counsel Fitzgerald.

Thompson, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Tennessee, gave an audience his assessment of the prosecution against Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice in a speech on May 12, 2007. He claims that the investigation was a sham from the outset: that there should have been no Special Counsel selected, and there never was any violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Indeed, he claimed "that there was no violation of the law, by anyone, and everybody - the CIA, the Justice Department and the Special Counsel knew it. Ms. Plame was not a 'covered person' under the statute and it was obvious from the outset."

This is a remarkable charge - suggesting that the CIA referred the matter to the Justice Department knowing that Plame was not covered by the law; that the Justice Department commenced the investigation even though it had the same knowledge; and that the Special Counsel continued the investigation even though he, too, knew she was not covered. Yet why would Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department have undertaken a baseless investigation? Why would a busy and highly-respected U.S. Attorney from Chicago take the assignment of Special Counsel if the law did not apply? And why would that same highly-respected U.S. Attorney make representations to a federal judge that the law did cover Valerie Plame, if it did not? It seems Fred Thompson has made a remarkably irresponsible charge.

"Furthermore," Thompson claimed, "Justice and the Special Counsel knew who leaked Plame's name and it wasn't Scooter Libby." Yet, Thompson added, "the Beltway machinery was well oiled and geared up so the Special Counsel … spent the next two years moving heaven and earth to come up with something, anything," and finally "came up with some inconsistent recollections by Scooter Libby." Inconsistent recollections? Apparently Thompson does not have a clue about the evidence that was presented at the trial, which proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Libby concocted a complex lie to explain away key behavior.

Nonetheless, based on his two-plus years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Thompson informed the audience, "In no other prosecutor's office in the country would a case like this one have been brought." Apparently, other prosecutors tolerate perjury and obstruction of justice. In addition, later in his speech, Thompson explained, "I have called for a pardon for Scooter Libby. When you rectify an injustice using the provisions of the law, just as when you reverse an erroneous court decision, you are not disregarding the rule of law, you are enforcing and protecting it."

That twisted report of the Special Counsel's investigation, and disturbing view on what to do about it is a bit frightening - especially coming from a man who wants to be president. But it is arguments like this that are the basis of the drive for leniency from Judge Walton, for a pardon, and, more broadly, for a change in public opinion regarding this case.

Much more.

[gulliver]

13. He looked really bad in the photos when he announced.

Seriously, he looked like he had been made up for a death scene. He looked better than McCain, but still...

[gratuitous]

15. I just wonder if he's white enough for conservatives?

Damn, those ginned-up media "controversies" just sound so stupid when placed in, well, just about any other context, don't they?