Bush v. Stem-Cells

Dear God… it’s Dave. I have a request. Is there any way You could make someone close to President Bush really sick with some kind of disease or something? I don’t want You to kill them or anything. Just give them a long-term ailment that could potentially be treated down the road by stem-cell technology. That way he might actually realize what a moron he was for vetoing the embryonic stem-cell research bill that the Senate just passed. Yeah, yeah, I know. The Bush twins are going to need work on their livers eventually, but that’ll take years.

You talk to President Bush (or so he claims), why can’t you reason with him? He thinks of these microscopic cells in petri dishes as lives. But what about people that are already living? Aren’t real lives more important than potential lives? Don’t they deserve more consideration than an embryo? I mean, for crying out loud, the conservative Republican controlled House and Senate both seem to be in favor of this and according to one poll 74% of the American people are, as the kids like to say, "down with it." Even noted pro-lifer Orrin Hatch (R – Utah) thinks it’s a good idea! ORRIN HATCH!

Bush, of course, says he vetoed the bill because he feels embryonic stem-cell research “crosses a moral boundary.” And yesterday, fair and balanced White House Press Secretary Tony Snow commented: “It’s inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder.” Okay, so let me get this straight… potentially life saving scientific research done on embryos in petri dishes = crossing a moral boundary and murder. Spending billions to finance an unjustified war in Iraq leading to the deaths of thousands of Iraqis and American troops = morally okay. That makes sense.

I could go on and on about how Bush’s continued reluctance to accept science (thanks to his religious right base) is putting America years behind the rest of the world, but I’m not going to bother. Since the President fancies himself a religious man, maybe instead of the illness to someone close to him, You could send him a plague or something. Perhaps after a few million locusts descend upon Crawford he'll get the message. Ah, who am I kidding. Bush would just insist the locusts were sent by Islamic extremists and use it as an excuse to bomb some other Middle Eastern country. Let's stick with the physical ailment to someone close to him and see how it goes. Boy, 2008 can’t get here fast enough.

Your buddy,
Dave

P.S. – If you do make someone sick, don’t make it Karl Rove. No one would fund stem-cell research to save Karl Rove. But I’m sure You're already aware of that because you’re omnipotent and all.