Obama canned W's EO blocking most embryonic stem-cell research, but forgot to fund the research

The Patriot Room ^ | October 28, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

[clyde_m]

Obama is, in the street vernacular, a useful idiot. Does he actually do anything?

[Carley]

Be glad

[Pontiac]

a useful idiot.

I you think about it; it is a good political move.

He get’s credit from his base for voiding the EO. But the Religious Right can get much traction against him because no new stem cell lines are being created because he has not funded the research.

After all Bush’s EO only applied to government funded research, so in effect Obama has changed the status quo not one iota.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The president cannot fund it. That is the function of Congress.

[Gator113]

“Does he actually do anything?”

Yes, he reads very well.

Let’s see, a community organizer for the ghetto tribes, 150 days as a Senator for a lost state, and 2 years of campaigning. Heck, he was more than ready to run America...... and the rest of the world.

Now, WHERE IS MY FREE MONEY??

[Fetid Facts]

Unfortunately the idiot WILL get around to funding it, so he gets two photo ops for the price of one, and a second chance to blame Bush.

[Always Right]

embryonic stem-cell research was a fraud.

[Blogger]

There was an early amendment in one of Congress’s bills that forbade them from funding it. Don’t remember what bill, but one of our guys snuck it in. I think it was in the stimulus.

[True Republican Patriot]

The Kenyan Village Idiot never learned how to work and pay attention to the details! Thats why Michelle had to order him to take his dumpster full of notes and scribbles over to William Ayers, an aclaimed Author and Unrepentant Terrorist and Probable Murderer, to write the Obama Fiction entitled “DREAMS FROM MY ABSENT, POLYGAMIST, FOREIGNER, DRUNKEN, SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST FATHER”......:-(
Obama appears to never have accomplished anything on his own except being able to SELL SNAKEOILS....

[Arthur McGowan]

I thought Obama’s EO ALSO banned federal funding of Adult Stem Cell Research. I.e., the research that actually produces therapies.

[FrdmLvr]

Obama is, in the street vernacular, a useful idiot

I wouldn't say it's street vernacular, more like Kremlin vernacular.

[BerryDingle]

Someone needs to tell him the campaign is over, and ask him why he isn’t being the president yet. Maybe it’s his identity crisis. Someone call out to him “Hey zero, how bout that birth certificate bud?”

[Kirkwood]

There may be no specific earmarked money for embryonic stem cell research, but their is nothing to prevent someone with NIH funding from using their research money to pursue ESCR now that the ban is lifted.