President Bush:

By volunteering our time and talents where they are needed most, we help heal the sick, comfort those who suffer, and bring hope to those who despair, one heart and one soul at a time.

In that spirit, perhaps the President would consider a pardon for Richard Paey, the Florida MS patient doing 25 years in prison for trying to obtain prescription paink medicine to ease his suffering. Or a pardon for just-convicted William Hurwitz, who faces a possible life sentence for “over prescribing” those same types of prescription painkillers. In fact, in that spirit, perhaps the President might direct the DEA to back off its cruel war on painkillers altogether. Or he might direct the DOJ to back off its anti-federalist litigation against the state of Oregon, whose voters have decided that suffering, terminally ill people ought to be able to choose to end their lives.

But then, this is a President who talks the talk on Christian compassion, but rarely walk the walk.

Hat tip: Skip Oliva.

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