When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk

[Sunshipper]

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?

more @:

http://www.washingtonpost.c om/wp-dyn/articles/A34167-2004Oct14.html




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[righton]

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Me thinks Edwards has the mistaken impression that the election of Lurch will be equal to the Second Coming of Christ.
Sorry, Pretty Boy, but it'll take more than stem cell research to restore paraplegics to their former selves. All Edwards has to do is ask anyone confined to a wheelchair - hope may be down the line, but not necessarily within the next 3-4 decades. Certain injuries are such that nothing less than a body transplant could help.
A comment such as this was ingenious and gives less informed persons a false sense of hope - and is nothing more than cruel.

L & L