I mean, I knew he was an ambulance chaser but...

I didn't know Senator Edwards was a snakeoil salesman too.

"When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." - Senator John Edwards

I'm tired of the sheer audacity of the bullshit coming out of the DNC this election year. It's just flatout amazing and frustrating at the same time. Amazing that they can say the utter crap that they say. And frustrating that people either believe it or are so wrapped up in misguided hatred for President Bush that they're willing to swallow this mountain-sized pile of bovine night-soil and vote the Two-Johns into the White House.

The latest campaign promise/scare tactic coming out of Senator Edwards takes the cake. People like Christopher Reeve will get out of their wheelchairs if John Kerry gets elected (read: if you boot George Bush out of office) is not only absurd, with no basis in fact, but it is cruel to give such false hope.

Set aside that no-one knows if the use of stem cells will do anything at all.

Set aside that no-one knows if the use of stem cells, if they do anything, those things will be positive ones.

And of course, set aside the dubious merits of making people like Christopher Reeve (ie. dead people) walk around again. I mean I have enough trouble with slow drivers in the fast lane as it is without mini-vans full of zombies hitting the road.

Let's just deal with the so-called impediment to stem cell research that President Bush is accused of being...

There is no ban on stem cell research. Not only is President Bush not standing in the way of stem reasearch, he's the first President to allot money to help it along, to the tune of twenty-five mil.

What there is, is a ban on Federally funded programs involving research on embryonic stem cell.

This does not include research the pre-existing embryonic stem cell lines.

This does not include research on adult stem cells.

This does not include privately funded research on either adult or embryonic stem cells.

*gasp* You mean if the DNC, the Hollywood leftists, the socialists and George Soros et al would stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to win elections and/or change the US into some "socialist utopia" and sank their money into... oh, I dunno, something useful like stem cell research or inventing cars that ran on gummi bears they could do it?

Exactly.

And no one is stopping them?

Exactly.

Why don't they?

Simple, they're socialists. They don't believe we the people can do anything for ourselves. They believe that the government has to do everything. To them, expending time, energy, and resources on making the government solve a problem, instead of expending time, energy, and resources on actually doing something to solve a problem themselves makes more sense.

It just doesn't dawn on them.