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Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Non-baseball: Hope mongering

Of all the distortions, half-truths, and bold-face lies told in this election season, this is, without a doubt, the most despicable:
"When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
-Dem. Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards
Senator, you should be ashamed of yourself.

UPDATE: Senator Edwards made the statement yesterday during a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa. He also promised to "...stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases..." according to Drudge. Simply disgusting.

UPDATE: Senate majority leader Bill Frist- a former heart surgeon- hits back at John Edward's comments: (via Crank)
Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, called Edwards' remark "crass" and "shameful," and said it gave false hope that new treatments were imminent.

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"I find it opportunistic to use the death of someone like Christopher Reeve -- I think it is shameful -- in order to mislead the American people," Frist said. "We should be offering people hope, but neither physicians, scientists, public servants or trial lawyers like John Edwards should be offering hype.

"It is cruel to people who have disabilities and chronic diseases, and, on top of that, it's dishonest. It's giving false hope to people, and I can tell you as a physician who's treated scores of thousands of patients that you don't give them false hope."
Frist/Romney '08!

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