Issue:CNN.com - Gov. Bush:�Prosecutor taking up Schiavo inquiry - Jun 17, 2005
Specific:"he found his wife collapsed at 5 a.m. on Feb. 25, 1990, and he said in a 2003 television interview that he found her about 4:30 a.m. He called 911 at 5:40 a.m."
Comment:It empties one's spirit to think that this Republican mind-set is pursuing this. It is wrong. No good comes from this. There is no great injustice.
A couple of things to note. I am making a reasonable assumption. I will stand for correction should this assumption be inaccurate. If the AM is accurate, that indicates they were just waking up for the day - at best. At that hour of the day, who actually tells time accurately.
Then there is the notion that if my wife of 24 years was lying still and quiet at that hour, I would be inclined to believe that she was asleep and would not disturb her. If She got up to go to the bathroom, closed the door and I heard something - I might drift off asleep for a bit, thinking my wife simply dropped something.
Then there is the notion that a 2003 interview is some 13 years after the fact. Memories of traumatic events blur with time.
The final observation is that the implausibility that no one before the Governor thought to ask the question!