anything is better than the current administration.
i'mworried that a
right wing bible thumping idiot like
w is going to think that he will
hasten the second comming
by starting millatary action where and when he
feels it's
needed tocause the "end time". if he's this rightwing
now
just imagine what he's going to be like when he doesn't
have to
worry about re-election.
all he wants is a christan theocracy
dave
headman
c4 25yrs post
>From: "Billy" <
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>To: <
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>Subject: Re:
[QUAD-L] FW: A washingtonpost.com article
>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004
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>
>Jim,
>A very good article. These guys are
selling inuendo, and a promise to do a
>'better' job than the current
administration. Absent of any details on any
>of the promises
(even if one is inclined to put their faith in the snake
>oil sales),
one must rely on their past to give some indication of their
>ability
to be honest and trustworthy.
>
>I offer the following - everyone
should be informed as
possible.
>
>http://kerrylied.com/otherdocs/flash.htm
>
>Don't
let what you cannot do interfere with what you can
do!
>
>Billy
> ----- Original Message
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> From: Jim Lubin
> To:
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> Subject: [QUAD-L]
FW: A washingtonpost.com
article
>
>
>
> An Edwards
Outrage
>
> By Charles
Krauthammer
>
> After the second
presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the
> word
"plan" 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan
for
> everything except curing psoriasis. I should have
known there is no
> parodying Kerry's pandering. It turned
out days later that the Kerry
> campaign has a plan -- nay,
a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the
> plan?
Vote for Kerry.
>
> This is John Edwards
on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do
> the work
that we can do in this country, the work that we will do
when
> John Kerry is president, people like Christopher
Reeve are going to
> walk, get up out of that wheelchair and
walk again."
>
> In my 25 years in
Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome
> display of
demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad.
Deliberately,
> for personal gain, raising false hope in the
catastrophically afflicted
> is
despicable.
>
> Where does one begin to
deconstruct this outrage?
>
> First, the
inability of the human spinal cord to regenerate is one of
>
the great mysteries of biology. The answer is not remotely around
the
> corner. It could take a generation to unravel. To
imply, as Edwards did,
> that it is imminent if only you
elect the right politicians is
>
scandalous.
>
> Second, if the cure for
spinal cord injury comes, we have no idea
> where it will
come from. There are many lines of inquiry. Stem cell
>
research is just one of many possibilities, and a very speculative
one
> at that. For 30 years I have heard promises of miracle
cures for
> paralysis (including my own, suffered as a
medical student). The last
> fad, fetal tissue transplants,
was thought to be a sure thing. Nothing
> came of
it.
>
> As a doctor by training, I've
known better than to believe the hype --
> and have tried in
my own counseling of people with new spinal cord
>
injuries to place the possibility of cure in abeyance. I advise
instead
> to concentrate on making a life (and a very good
life it can be) with
> the hand one is dealt. The greatest
enemies of this advice have been the
> snake-oil salesmen
promising a miracle around the corner. I never
> expected a
candidate for vice president to be one of
them.
>
> Third, the implication that
Christopher Reeve was prevented from
> getting out of his
wheelchair by the Bush stem cell policies is a
>
travesty.
>
> George Bush is the first president
to approve federal funding for stem
> cell research. There
are 22 lines of stem cells now available, up from
> one just
two years ago. As Leon Kass, head of the President's Council
on
> Bioethics, has written, there are 3,500 shipments of
stem cells waiting
> for anybody who wants
them.
>
> Edwards and Kerry constantly
talk of a Bush "ban" on stem cell
> research. This is false.
There is no ban. You want to study stem cells?
> You get
them from the companies that have the cells and apply to
the
> National Institutes of Health for the federal
funding.
>
> In his Aug. 7 radio address
to the nation, Kerry referred not once but
> four times to
the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by Bush. At the
>
time, Reeve was alive, so not available for posthumous exploitation.
But
> Ronald Reagan was available, having recently died of
Alzheimer's.
>
> So what does Kerry do? He
begins his radio address with the
> disgraceful claim that
the stem cell "ban" is standing in the way of an
>
Alzheimer's cure.
>
> This is an outright
lie. The President's Council on Bioethics, on
> which I sit,
had one of the world's foremost experts on Alzheimer's,
>
Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the newest and
most
> promising approaches to solving the Alzheimer's
mystery. Selkoe reported
> remarkable progress in using
biochemicals to clear the "plaque" deposits
> in the brain
that lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation
without
> the phrase "stem cells" having passed his
lips.
>
> So much for the miracle cure.
Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell
> researcher at NIH, has
admitted publicly that stem cells as an
> Alzheimer's cure
are a fiction, but that "people need a fairy tale."
> Kerry
and Edwards certainly do. They are shamelessly exploiting
this
> fairy tale, having no doubt been told by their
pollsters that stem cells
> play well politically for
them.
>
> Politicians have long promised a
chicken in every pot. It is part of
> the game. It is one
thing to promise ethanol subsidies here, dairy price
>
controls there. But to exploit the desperate hopes of desperate
people
> with the promise of Christ-like cures is beyond the
pale.
>
> There is no apologizing for
Edwards's remark. It is too revealing.
> There is absolutely
nothing the man will not say to get elected.
>
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