Bush is "For" Life, Except When He's Against It

The President is against abortion and using embryos for stem-cell research. He does not feel one form of life should be sacrificed to save another. OK. Fair point. I disagree that embryos represent "life," but that's my opinion.

The President is also pro-Death Penalty. His justification is that it saves lives.

Anyone else see this as a huge contradiction? William Saletan in Slate does. He lays out the multiple contradiction.

I guess if he said he were in favor of the death penalty because he believes in vengeance or retribution, that (while not quite so moral high ground) is at least a consistent position. But how he can defend embryos right to exist (if they even can be said to exist) but be in favor of killing real live human people?

But the real question is why can't anyone in the media ask the President to address this contradiction? Allowing this obvious craven, cynical hypocrisy to stand is just letting the President get away with it.