John Edwards:
When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk.
That’s right, folks, when John Kerry is President, the dead will walk the Earth.
Wait a second, I thought the dead already did walk the Earth – after all, how else can counties in Ohio have 4,000 more new voters than there are eligable voters unless the Democrats are canvassing cemetaries? And aren’t the dead a traditionally Democratic constituency as it is?
UPDATE: Apparently I’m getting quite a lot of flack for this one, and perhaps it is in bad taste this close to Mr. Reeve’s death. Edwards full quote is this:
When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
Edwards comments not only politicize Reeve’s death, but sell false promise to those who have paralyzing spinal-cord injuries. Embryonic stem cells are not some magic bullet, and privately funded research on these cells continue, along with the 22 lines of stem cells that currently can recieve federal funding. Promising that a political victory for John Kerry will enable people who have been paralyzed to years to suddenly walk again is not only crass, but disgustingly so.
I’m willing to apologize for being out of line – will Edwards do the same?
Okay, screw Badnarik. If Kerry is a necromancer-king in disguise, he’s got my vote.
Wow, you must be getting nervous if you’re reduced to mocking Christopher Reeve’s corpse before it’s even cold.
I gotta say that was poor taste, usually in most cases I agree with you jay, but I gotta say that this one was low
What really makes me sick is that Democrats say we need non-adult stem cell research because it provides “hope” to those like Reeves. There is only one thing worse than no hope, is false hope. To pray on a person’s disability with false hope is sick, wrong and disgusting.
Just for the record, it’s Reeve…not Reeves.
Jay,
You have nothing to apologize for. Nothing at all. The Democrats have shamelessly politicized his death, even on the floor of the Senate. You just called them on it. The shame and disgrace is theirs, not yours.
Get real. Reeve was as much a contributor to the political landscape as Paul Wellstone and Strom Thurmond. Should Senators have not mentioned their deaths so as “not to shamelessly politicize” them?
Mark,
Noticed you chose Strom Thurmond as the Republican example. There were no others that came to mind?
I still think it is shameful to politicize someone’s deat, and implicitly blame Bush. That’s cheap.
Why “implicitely”? Is Bush not the one who forbid stem cell research?
Bush did not and does not forbid stem cell research. Bush is the FIRST President to authorize funding for embryonic stem cell research. What he did do was ban federal dunding for future embryonic stem cell lines. Again, this is not a ban on stem cell research, and it is not a ban on embryonic stem cell research. It is just a ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
“It is just a ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.”
Thank you man. Can you now explain to yourself how forbidding federal funding will generally limit the scope, the legitimacy and the sharing of research’s results and raise prices of products for end-consumers.
I hope you understand that leaving stem cell research to the private sector is not the smartest move if you want to develop a technology for everyone. This is just another present to the medic-lobby.