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--> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem cell research
in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers in place, including
that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that one should take the
time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If you could forward this,
it will reach a larger audience.
Nico
I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart but didn't
know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ !!!!
Max
[First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is extremely
important, both for its content and for what it says about the morality of the
Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I hope will create enough
interest in his article and encourage you to forward it on. It will be fairly
long. Please read all of it.]
Mike
You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN) He is the
one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and appearance.
He does a national column in many of America's newspapers and he writes for Time
Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not sure how it will forward
from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever watch any of the cable
news stations.
I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested perhaps an
'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some prejudice. Because
of his national column from today, I decided to look at him a little harder.
Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is more to the
story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter administration and
was a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale.
There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and thus the
credibility of his article below.
He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard M.D. in
1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric research for Jimmy
Carter's administration. And, by the way,
This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so stiffly on TV
is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard Medical School.
When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that the braces which
keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a smile on his face may
be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well. I know he does smile
inside, because I read the article below. To quote him from the article when
talking about making the best of the hand one is dealt, "... and a very good
life it can be."
His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass it on.
Senator Mike Fair
Oklahoma State Senate
Edwards will promise anything to get elected
By Charles Krauthammer
Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON - 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.
I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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 raising for personal
gain 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 the newly spinal-cord injured 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
enemy of this advice has 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.
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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred not once but
four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by Bush. At the time,
Christopher 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, Dr. Dennis Selkoe
from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising approaches to solving the
Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported remarkable progress in biochemically clearing
the "plaque" deposits in the brain that lead to Alzheimer's. He ended
his presentation without the phrase "stem cells" having crossed 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.
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' remark. It is too revealing. There is
absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
Charles Krauthammer:
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--> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
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I will be more careful in future.
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Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
<nico@cybersuperstore.com>
>
> Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem cell
research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers in
place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that one
should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If you
could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> Nico
>
>
> I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart but
didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ !!!!
> Max
> [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about the
morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I hope
will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to forward it
on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN) He
is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers and
he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not sure
how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever
watch any of the cable news stations.
>
>
> I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to look at
him a little harder.
>
>
> Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is more to
the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale.
>
>
> There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and thus
the credibility of his article below.
>
>
> He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard
M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
>
>
> This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so stiffly
on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard
Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that the
braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a smile on
his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well. I
know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote him
from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
>
>
> His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass it
on.
>
>
> Senator Mike Fair
>
>
> Oklahoma State Senate
>
>
> Edwards will promise anything to get elected
>
>
> By Charles Krauthammer
> Washington Post Writers Group
>
>
> WASHINGTON - 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.
>
>
> I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord injured
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 enemy of this advice has 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.
>
>
> 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
>
>
> In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred not
once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by Bush.
At the time, Christopher 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, Dr.
Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported remarkable
progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain that
lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem
cells" having crossed 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.
>
>
> 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' remark. It is too revealing.
There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
>
>
> Charles Krauthammer:
>
>
> letters@charleskrauthammer.com
>
>
> x-unix-mode0666;
> name"krauthammer.jpg"
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filenamekrauthammer.jpg
>
>
> --
> The box said use Windows XP or better, so I bought a Macintosh.
>
>
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--> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
Sure would be nice to get back to talking about aviation & Aero Commanders,
instead of using this forum as a soapbox to foist your political (and
uninformed) points of view on other listees.
Cheers,
/J
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From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
<nico@cybersuperstore.com>
>
> Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem cell
research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers in
place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that one
should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If you
could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> Nico
>
>
> I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart but
didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ !!!!
> Max
> [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about the
morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I hope
will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to forward it
on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN) He
is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers and
he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not sure
how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever
watch any of the cable news stations.
>
>
> I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to look at
him a little harder.
>
>
> Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is more to
the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale.
>
>
> There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and thus
the credibility of his article below.
>
>
> He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard
M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
>
>
> This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so stiffly
on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard
Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that the
braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a smile on
his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well. I
know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote him
from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
>
>
> His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass it
on.
>
>
> Senator Mike Fair
>
>
> Oklahoma State Senate
>
>
> Edwards will promise anything to get elected
>
>
> By Charles Krauthammer
> Washington Post Writers Group
>
>
> WASHINGTON - 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.
>
>
> I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord injured
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 enemy of this advice has 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.
>
>
> 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
>
>
> In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred not
once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by Bush.
At the time, Christopher 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, Dr.
Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported remarkable
progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain that
lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem
cells" having crossed 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.
>
>
> 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' remark. It is too revealing.
There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
>
>
> Charles Krauthammer:
>
>
> letters@charleskrauthammer.com
>
>
> x-unix-mode0666;
> name"krauthammer.jpg"
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filenamekrauthammer.jpg
>
>
> --
> The box said use Windows XP or better, so I bought a Macintosh.
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD |
--> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
I did apologize. They are not uninformed. Unwelcome at best.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
>
> Sure would be nice to get back to talking about aviation & Aero
Commanders,
> instead of using this forum as a soapbox to foist your political (and
> uninformed) points of view on other listees.
>
> Cheers,
>
> /J
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> To: "'Art & Carla White'" <artandcarla@adelphia.net>
> Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
>
>
> > --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
> <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> >
> > Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem cell
> research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers in
> place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that one
> should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If
you
> could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> > Nico
> >
> >
> > I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart
but
> didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ
!!!!
> > Max
> > [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
> extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about the
> morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I
hope
> will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to forward it
> on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN)
He
> is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
> appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers and
> he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not
sure
> how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever
> watch any of the cable news stations.
> >
> >
> > I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
> perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
> prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to look
at
> him a little harder.
> >
> >
> > Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is more
to
> the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
> administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale.
> >
> >
> > There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and
thus
> the credibility of his article below.
> >
> >
> > He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard
> M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
> research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
> >
> >
> > This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so
stiffly
> on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard
> Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that
the
> braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a smile
on
> his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well.
I
> know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote him
> from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
> dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
> >
> >
> > His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass it
> on.
> >
> >
> > Senator Mike Fair
> >
> >
> > Oklahoma State Senate
> >
> >
> > Edwards will promise anything to get elected
> >
> >
> > By Charles Krauthammer
> > Washington Post Writers Group
> >
> >
> > WASHINGTON - 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.
> >
> >
> > I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
> raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord
injured
> 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 enemy of this advice has 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.
> >
> >
> > 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
> >
> >
> > In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred not
> once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by Bush.
> At the time, Christopher 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, Dr.
> Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
> approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported remarkable
> progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain that
> lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem
> cells" having crossed 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.
> >
> >
> > 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' remark. It is too revealing.
> There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
> >
> >
> > Charles Krauthammer:
> >
> >
> > letters@charleskrauthammer.com
> >
> >
> > x-unix-mode0666;
> > name"krauthammer.jpg"
> > Content-Disposition: inline;
> > filenamekrauthammer.jpg
> >
> >
> > --
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--> Commander-List message posted by: "James Rodriguez Colom" <jamesrodriguez@bppr.com>
John,
How did the paint job turn out?
Best Regards,
Jimmy
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[mailto:owner-commander-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of John
Vormbaum
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
--> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum"
<john@vormbaum.com>
Sure would be nice to get back to talking about aviation & Aero
Commanders,
instead of using this forum as a soapbox to foist your political (and
uninformed) points of view on other listees.
Cheers,
/J
----- Original Message -----
From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
<nico@cybersuperstore.com>
>
> Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem
cell
research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers
in
place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that
one
should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If
you
could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> Nico
>
>
> I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart
but
didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ
!!!!
> Max
> [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about the
morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I
hope
will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to forward
it
on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
>
>
> Mike
>
>
> You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN)
He
is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers
and
he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not
sure
how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever
watch any of the cable news stations.
>
>
> I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to look
at
him a little harder.
>
>
> Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is
more to
the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter
Mondale.
>
>
> There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and
thus
the credibility of his article below.
>
>
> He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard
M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
>
>
> This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so
stiffly
on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard
Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that
the
braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a
smile on
his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well.
I
know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote
him
from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
>
>
> His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass
it
on.
>
>
> Senator Mike Fair
>
>
> Oklahoma State Senate
>
>
> Edwards will promise anything to get elected
>
>
> By Charles Krauthammer
> Washington Post Writers Group
>
>
> WASHINGTON - 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.
>
>
> I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord
injured
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 enemy of this advice has 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.
>
>
> 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
>
>
> In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred
not
once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by
Bush.
At the time, Christopher 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, Dr.
Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported
remarkable
progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain
that
lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem
cells" having crossed 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.
>
>
> 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' remark. It is too revealing.
There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
>
>
> Charles Krauthammer:
>
>
> letters@charleskrauthammer.com
>
>
> x-unix-mode0666;
> name"krauthammer.jpg"
> Content-Disposition: inline;
> filenamekrauthammer.jpg
>
>
> --
> The box said use Windows XP or better, so I bought a Macintosh.
>
>
> .
>
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--> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
Point taken, and I owe an apology too.....I didn't see your followup message
until after I flamed you :-).
So, I apologize!
Cheers,
/John
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From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
<nico@cybersuperstore.com>
>
> I did apologize. They are not uninformed. Unwelcome at best.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
> To: <commander-list@matronics.com>
> Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
>
>
> > --> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum"
<john@vormbaum.com>
> >
> > Sure would be nice to get back to talking about aviation & Aero
> Commanders,
> > instead of using this forum as a soapbox to foist your political (and
> > uninformed) points of view on other listees.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > /J
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> > To: "'Art & Carla White'" <artandcarla@adelphia.net>
> > Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> >
> >
> > > --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
> > <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> > >
> > > Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem
cell
> > research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous readers
in
> > place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that
one
> > should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here. If
> you
> > could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> > > Nico
> > >
> > >
> > > I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely smart
> but
> > didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ
> !!!!
> > > Max
> > > [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
> > extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about the
> > morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I
> hope
> > will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to forward
it
> > on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
> > >
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX & CNN)
> He
> > is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
> > appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers
and
> > he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm not
> sure
> > how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you ever
> > watch any of the cable news stations.
> > >
> > >
> > > I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
> > perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
> > prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to look
> at
> > him a little harder.
> > >
> > >
> > > Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is
more
> to
> > the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
> > administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter
Mondale.
> > >
> > >
> > > There is still even more to the story of this amazing man and
> thus
> > the credibility of his article below.
> > >
> > >
> > > He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a Harvard
> > M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
> > research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
> > >
> > >
> > > This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so
> stiffly
> > on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at Harvard
> > Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all that
> the
> > braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a
smile
> on
> > his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well.
> I
> > know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote
him
> > from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
> > dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
> > >
> > >
> > > His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass
it
> > on.
> > >
> > >
> > > Senator Mike Fair
> > >
> > >
> > > Oklahoma State Senate
> > >
> > >
> > > Edwards will promise anything to get elected
> > >
> > >
> > > By Charles Krauthammer
> > > Washington Post Writers Group
> > >
> > >
> > > WASHINGTON - 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
> > raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord
> injured
> > 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 enemy of this advice has 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
> > >
> > >
> > > In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred
not
> > once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by
Bush.
> > At the time, Christopher 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, Dr.
> > Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
> > approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported
remarkable
> > progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain
that
> > lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem
> > cells" having crossed 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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' remark. It is too revealing.
> > There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
> > >
> > >
> > > Charles Krauthammer:
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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--> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
These emails go around too fast.
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> --> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
>
> Point taken, and I owe an apology too.....I didn't see your followup
message
> until after I flamed you :-).
>
> So, I apologize!
>
> Cheers,
>
> /John
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> To: <commander-list@matronics.com>
> Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
>
>
> > --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
> <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> >
> > I did apologize. They are not uninformed. Unwelcome at best.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Vormbaum" <john@vormbaum.com>
> > To: <commander-list@matronics.com>
> > Subject: Re: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> >
> >
> > > --> Commander-List message posted by: "John Vormbaum"
> <john@vormbaum.com>
> > >
> > > Sure would be nice to get back to talking about aviation & Aero
> > Commanders,
> > > instead of using this forum as a soapbox to foist your political (and
> > > uninformed) points of view on other listees.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > /J
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "nico css" <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> > > To: "'Art & Carla White'" <artandcarla@adelphia.net>
> > > Subject: Commander-List: Stem cell research: Charles Krauthammer MD
> > >
> > >
> > > > --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css"
> > > <nico@cybersuperstore.com>
> > > >
> > > > Fwd: Charles Krauthammer MDThis should put the question about stem
> cell
> > > research in its proper context. I left the comments of previous
readers
> in
> > > place, including that of senator Mike Fair. This is SO important that
> one
> > > should take the time to read it and understand what's at stake here.
If
> > you
> > > could forward this, it will reach a larger audience.
> > > > Nico
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I just recieved this. I always thought Krauthammer was extremely
smart
> > but
> > > didn't know his background. Republican or Democrat,this is a MUST READ
> > !!!!
> > > > Max
> > > > [First let me say that that Mr. Krauthammer's article (below) is
> > > extremely important, both for its content and for what it says about
the
> > > morality of the Kerry/Edwards campaign. What I am saying about him, I
> > hope
> > > will create enough interest in his article and encourage you to
forward
> it
> > > on. It will be fairly long. Please read all of it.]
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > You may have noticed Charles Krauthammer on cable news.(FOX &
CNN)
> > He
> > > is the one with a sour-puss and seems kind of stiff in his dress and
> > > appearance. He does a national column in many of America's newspapers
> and
> > > he writes for Time Magazine. I've attached his photo below but I'm
not
> > sure
> > > how it will forward from you, on, but you will recognize him if you
ever
> > > watch any of the cable news stations.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I could tell he was bright but his stiff appearance suggested
> > > perhaps an 'attitude', and I always listened to his words with some
> > > prejudice. Because of his national column from today, I decided to
look
> > at
> > > him a little harder.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Krauthammer is a Pulitzer prize winning writer but there is
> more
> > to
> > > the story. He cut his political teeth doing work for the Carter
> > > administration and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter
> Mondale.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > There is still even more to the story of this amazing man
and
> > thus
> > > the credibility of his article below.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > He practiced medicine for three years after receiving a
Harvard
> > > M.D. in 1975. The reason he went to Washington was to do psychiatric
> > > research for Jimmy Carter's administration. And, by the way,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This Political Commentator/writer who never smiles and sits so
> > stiffly
> > > on TV is, himself, paralyzed - from an incident while he was at
Harvard
> > > Medical School. When he is sitting there stiff it is probably all
that
> > the
> > > braces which keep him vertical will allow him to do. The lack of a
> smile
> > on
> > > his face may be because those facial muscles don't work quite so well.
> > I
> > > know he does smile inside, because I read the article below. To quote
> him
> > > from the article when talking about making the best of the hand one is
> > > dealt, "... and a very good life it can be."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > His column below is pertinent. You need to read it and pass
> it
> > > on.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Senator Mike Fair
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Oklahoma State Senate
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Edwards will promise anything to get elected
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > By Charles Krauthammer
> > > > Washington Post Writers Group
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > WASHINGTON - 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm not making this up. I couldn't. 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
> > > raising for personal gain 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 the newly spinal-cord
> > injured
> > > 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 enemy of this advice has 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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 Dr. 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 federal funding.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In his Aug. 7 radio address to the nation, John Kerry referred
> not
> > > once but four times to the "ban" on stem cell research instituted by
> Bush.
> > > At the time, Christopher 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,
Dr.
> > > Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the most promising
> > > approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported
> remarkable
> > > progress in biochemically clearing the "plaque" deposits in the brain
> that
> > > lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase
"stem
> > > cells" having crossed 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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' remark. It is too
revealing.
> > > There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Charles Krauthammer:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > letters@charleskrauthammer.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > x-unix-mode0666;
> > > > name"krauthammer.jpg"
> > > > Content-Disposition: inline;
> > > > filenamekrauthammer.jpg
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
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