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I am shocked that the Rocky printed the vicious personal attack on Brian Rohrbough by Andrea Stutheit (“Embarrassing,” Oct. 9), accusing him of “bloodlust” and comparing him to “a loud drunk at a party.” Every parent who has lost a child never really recovers, despite their attempts to make sense of it and to bring change to prevent it from happening to others. It is Stutheit who needs to “leave the poor man alone.”

Louise Benson, Broomfield

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Brian Rbough hs been sadly compromised by political forces that wish to use him as a political pawn. I'm sorry about his child, but the politicos that are massaging him have no interest in his child at all. Naiveté knows no bounds. Libs love dead children.

Rohrbough chose to cheapen and politicize his son's death. End of story.

Isn't interesting that when lfetist use a tradgedy and the victems of. They can spew forth all their rhetoric, yet when confronted by the opposeing side. Immediately it comes up as stop attacking the victem. So easy to scew a topic then not allow opposeing views. A tactic that the left is getting good at.

hey if you havent walked in rohrbough's shoes keep your view to your self as you dont have any idea of what he is going through.
his words are just that HIS and if it helps him heal then so be it.

Hey clyde, I don't think it was libs that wanted to use this to put prayer in school

I haven't kept up with the Rohrbough story, but I have a great deal of admiration for those people who respond to a tragedy in their lives by attacking the underlying problem and trying to help others, channeling the anger and frustration into something good.

Rohrbough is heroic, and if the Right gets all torn up about it, all the better.

atticus,
You have it backwards. Rohrbaugh is pro-life. He's disgusted with murder & suicide.

Until you have walked in his shoes...

I have walked in his shoes. It changed my life forever.Until you experience life altering grief , I'd venture to say you have no say in how someone expresses his or her grief.

It is a pain so deep, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.You are forever hurt and your heart is scarred the rest of your life.

Everyone has their own way to deal with the death of a loved one. He or she is entitled to say or feel anything they want if that helps the healing process.

When you lose a loved one , you are always looking for the why.You need someone to take responsibility for the death.If that gets you through than no one can tell you are right or wrong.

He spoke from his heart.He has a different idea as to why his son was killed that day.

Until you walk in his shoes.......

I find it odd that the parents of the Columbine shooting victims are under fairly severe attack from time to time, yet the parents of the kids who committed those murders seem to be under little or no scrutiny at all. Much of the general public know the names of the victim’s parents, but don’t know the names of the murder’s parents. What a twisted paradox.

To imply that abortion and our "godless" schools were at play in the sociopathic tendencies of two teenagers is laughable at best and downright ignorant at worst.

I felt pity for Rorbough right up to the point he chose to cheapen the memory of his son by politicizing the memorial for Columbine. Now I just feel embarassed for him.

I have to wonder how many people who are bashing Rohrbough for politicizing his son's death are supportive of Cindy Sheehan. There's no way to know, but I would guess quite a few.

He and Cindy Sheehan have a lot in common. Except she went after what killed her son: the Bush war.

Rohrbough went after society in general, and that is the difference.

I don't care if Rohrbough is Republican and Sheehan a Democrat.

You idiots... their children are dead and they are hurting. Are you all so wrapped up in your obsessions with your respective (though, not respectful) political party affiliations that you can't see that sorrow is sorrow is sorrow. Attacking either R or S is shameful of all of you.

Sharon B. October 17, 2007 12:41 PM "He and Cindy Sheehan have a lot in common. Except she went after what killed her son: the Bush war.

Rohrbough went after society in general, and that is the difference."

Sharon, so in other words... If you agree with the message, politicizing a slain child is acceptable. If you disagree with the message, politicizing a slain child is wrong.

Although I don't personally agree with all of Mr. Rohrbough's or Ms. Sheehan's opinions, I also recognize that in a free country they have the right to speak from the heart and spread their own messages.

To attack others for not sharing your point of view is pointless and sad. To judge the manner in which someone else grieves the death of their child, is heartless.

Anon at 8:44. She attacked the source of her loss: the war.

He attacked modern society in general. Not thee source of his loss: two mentally deranged kids.

Kind of like Falwell blaming 9-11 on homosexuality and lesbians.

Sharon, so I take it it's safe to assume you do support Sheehan's soapboxing, but not Rohrbough's.

Whether they're politicizing against a specific issue or a general issue is irrelevant. They're both the same - two parents using the death of a child to push their own political agenda.

Sounds like you're splitting hairs trying to rationalize your double standard.

Anon male at 9:06 if you don`t see the difference, and I think you do, it isn`t my job to keep posting you to explain.

If a train runs down my child, and I speak out on abortion or the lack of prayer in school, does that make the case easier to understand?

Sharon, one could argue his intention was to speak out against a corrupt culture, a culture that produced the killers who took his son's life. In that regard, he is attacking the source of his loss.

But as I said, the actual message is irrelevant. The issue is they're both using a dead child as a soapbox, nothing more, nothing less. They're exactly the same.

You can try to justify it however you want, but to berate one while praising the other is a blatant double stand.

double standard

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