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American Gothic Horror
 To justify the East Wing office space and staff they use, First Ladies traditionally wage campaigns on a favorite public policy issue – usually something the President would like to see done, but couldn’t be bothered with himself. Eleanor Roosevelt did the most with it, Nancy Reagan the least, Hillary Clinton screwed it up, and Laura Bush chose literacy – an obvious choice since she was a librarian, but also a reminder that her husband lies about reading a book a week. Archie and Veronica notwithstanding.
In today’s NYPost, Dan Mangan reveals that aspiring First Lady Judith Nathan Giuliani will most definitely not be out front for the Anti-vivisection Society. Reportedly, from 1975 to 1979 she:
“…demonstrated surgical products for a controversial medical-supply company that used dogs – which were later killed – in operations whose only purpose was to sell equipment to doctors.”
“It was a horribly cruel, outrageous program,” Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said about the demonstrations of medical staplers on dogs conducted by U.S. Surgical Corp. employees during Giuliani's tenure there in the late 1970s.
Feral said U.S. Surgical’s demonstrations on hundreds of dogs each year through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s were done to boost sales, not for medical research or testing.
The dogs were “either put to death following the sales demonstrations because they can’t recover from them, or they die during them,” Feral said.
“There's no ethical justification for this.”
“A dead dog doesn’t bleed,” US Surgical’s then-CEO Leon Hirsch told Time magazine in 1988. “You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security.”
Real blood-flow, a false sense of security? Maybe supporting the war in Iraq will be First Lady Judi’s contribution to humanity.  Comments?
~Jack McEnany
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