{"id":3364,"date":"2005-06-16T13:51:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/06\/16\/this-man-wants-to-be-your-president\/"},"modified":"2005-06-16T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T21:51:54","slug":"this-man-wants-to-be-your-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/16\/this-man-wants-to-be-your-president\/","title":{"rendered":"This man wants to be your President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBill Frist just lost my vote:<\/a><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday he doesn’t regret using his standing as a doctor to question Terri Schiavo’s diagnosis from afar during the intense national debate over whether to remove her feeding tube.<\/p>\n

Frist said he accepted the results of Schiavo’s autopsy released Wednesday, showing severe, irreversible brain damage. But he stood by his statements on the Senate floor last March, when he argued that on videotape Schiavo appeared to respond to her family and doctors.<\/p>\n

“Would I do it over again? Yes, I would do it over again,” the senator told reporters. Frist, R-Tenn., said he had only sought to make sure the most up-to-date testing was performed to determine whether Schiavo was truly in a persistent vegetative state, the diagnosis accepted by state courts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would vote for Hillary before I’d vote for this buffoon, and I can’t stand Hillary.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Frist just lost my vote: WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday he doesn’t regret using his standing as a doctor to question Terri Schiavo’s diagnosis from afar during the intense national debate over whether to remove her feeding tube. Frist said he accepted the results of Schiavo’s autopsy released Wednesday, showing … Continue reading “This man wants to be your President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}