Paul Greenberg: Meet Dr. Kerry and His Cure for Alzheimer's

Tribune Media Services ^ | August 16, 2004 | Paul Greenberg

[quidnunc]

Teresa Heinz Kerry isn't the only spouse in this year's presidential race who can let fly. Quiet, ladylike Laura Bush seems to have finally had it with John Kerry's playing doctor. Specifically, his repeating the words Stem Cell Research like a magic spell that'll cure Alzheimer's and maybe every other ill the flesh is heir to.

Dr. Kerry recites his mantra like a magician saying Abracadabra! What he doesn't emphasize is that he's advocating experimentation on human embryos.

It all got to be too much for our usually quiet-spoken, every-hair-in-place First Lady, who suddenly morphed into Scrappy Wife of Presidential Candidate. "That's so ridiculous," Laura Bush told an AP reporter.

And it is. No reputable scientist I've ever heard of (as opposed to Dr. Kerry) is claiming that experimenting with human embryos is going to cure Alzheimer's.

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[Texas Eagle]

Laura Bush: "I hope that stem-cell research will yield cures and therapies for a myriad of illnesses. But I know that embryonic stem-cell research is very preliminary, and the implication that cures for Alzheimer's are around the corner is just not right, and it's really not fair to the people who are watching a loved one suffer from this disease."

Game. Set. Match.

[Iam1ru1-2]

[Brimack34]

It is truely sick for these Rats to give false hope to sick people!!!!!

[auboy]

Laura said her father had suffered from Alzheimer's before he died. She knows first hand the cruelty of the snake oil salesman's 'magic elixir'.

[Texas Eagle]

Zackly.

[TexanToTheCore]

Dear Jean,

You have just been warned by a Texas gentlewoman. If you are wise you will refrain from taking on this young lady. Just back off and busy yourself elsewhere.

TTTC

[okie01]

Whatever one thinks of the course George W. Bush chose, he took the ethical problem seriously. John Kerry just brushes it aside.

John Kerry is seemingly doing everything he can to convince me that he is not a serious man. Much less, a serious candidate for the presidency of the United States.

[DHerion]

Sounds like another flip flop by 'the Waffler'. Didn't he recently state that life begins at conception but now he says we can do whatever we want to human embryos?

[YaYa123]

One night this last week, one of the evening newsie shows, I think it was ABC, had Patti Davis doing an in-depth interview with a little girl who has juvenile diabetes. Heart wrenching, "and if you had an hour with President Bush, what would you tell him", Patty asked the little girl. Talk about pulling at the heart strings propaganda!

But I did read an article that said as of two days ago, Kerry had begun to omit "embryonic" from his stem cell references.

[YaYa123]

One night this last week, one of the evening newsie shows, I think it was ABC, had Patti Davis doing an in-depth interview with a little girl who has juvenile diabetes. Heart wrenching, "and if you had an hour with President Bush, what would you tell him", Patty asked the little girl. Talk about pulling at the heart strings propaganda!

But I did read an article that said as of two days ago, Kerry had begun to omit "embryonic" from his stem cell references.

[dano1]

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