Snowflakes

President Bush wielded his veto power for the first time in his presidency, to stop stem cell research. He announced the veto surrounded by a collection of children known as “snowflakes”. Said children were “adopted” as frozen embryos, implanted in the adoptive mother’s uterus, and gestated. Bush chose these children to “remind us of what is lost when embryos are destroyed in the name of research.”

Meanwhile, in Iraq, 6000 real human beings died in the months of May and June.

I can’t help but look at this picture, and notice that all of the children and parents flanking Bush are white. Why are these children more important to Bush than the brown children of Iraq? Okay, so they’re Americans, he didn’t take an oath to protect and defend the world. Then why are these children more important than the black children of New Orleans? He couldn’t stop his vacation for them.

I don’t think the President is necessarily overtly racist. I think he just has no empathy for people who aren’t like him. He can’t imagine what it’s like to poor, or black, or a woman, and worse, doesn’t see why that would be a problem.