Posted on 03/12/2017 6:59:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Former Democratic U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday in one of his first major speeches since leaving office this year that he would have liked to have been the U.S. president who ended cancer as we know it.
Biden, whose son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015, delivered an emotional speech at the South by Southwest technology summit in Austin, Texas, about continuing the work he led under former Democratic President Barack Obama in the so-called Cancer Moonshot, an initiative aimed at speeding up research into new cancer therapies.
He spoke of the need for prevention, research collaboration and big data to battle cancer.
Biden did not mention U.S. Republican President Donald Trump by name, but said in the speech before several thousand people he was willing to work with the current administration on the fight against cancer, which kills an estimated 600,000 Americans a year. The only bipartisan thing left in America is the fight against cancer, he said.
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Presidents cure diseases? Who knew!
And the innocent unborn babies that the Democrats have allowed to be legally murdered. Again, As one sows, one also reaps. Abortion [the legal murder of innocent unborn and partially babies] is near and dear to a Democrat’s heart. My sympathies are with the innocent victim.
Biden should have begun with his boss who was a cancer on this nation.
Yeh he can’t grope little girls anymore.
That’s “bad touching”, Creepy Uncle Joe.
Finding a cure for cancer is about as likely as completing the fight for civil rights. Too much money would dry up and too many people out of work in both industries.
He could have walked into it in 16 just be thankful Hillary ran
Except us God loving Christians
Our body may die but our soul lives on.
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