John Edwards is using Christopher Reeves for political gain.

Hardball

[Mike Bates]

That subject (what party was Reeves) would be an interesting case study.

Please see post #100.

[IamConservative]

"John Edwards is using Christopher Reeves for political gain."

How does that compare to using the pain and suffering of a child, junk science and a Doctors good name for personal gain?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Reeves for you information before his accident was not a leftie, he was a Republican.

I don't believe that to be the case. I recall Reeve's views being of the standard Hollywood variety.

Any links to support?

[showme_the_Glory]

Granny's rumatize medicine...
Think I'll have me a dose of "the recipe"

[Carolinamom]

Charles Krauthammer said on Brit's show that Edwards' statement was "the worst demagoguery" he'd heard in 25 years.

[bunches]

Isn't Charles a medical doctor? He would know all about stem cell research I would think.

I'm always impressed with his wide range of knowledge and his calm no-nonsense demeanor on the panel (Brit Hume's show).

[rambo316]

I dont' get it.... i said my prayers for Reeve and his family but I don't get how he is a hero. Just because he was a quad, he is a hero? Every chance he got, he used his handicap to push his leftist beliefs on all Americans. That is a fact. And his Commie friends used his disability to get there points across.

[hinckley buzzard]

Voice message...OK, I still bet it "was inadvertantly deleted," if anybody asks.

[Fresh Wind]

The answer is simple. John Edwards is channeling Reeves for Kerry.

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm still trying to find out how he voted in 2000.

Probably for algore. :^O

[hehe!]

Oh .... I bet he had special assistance at the polling place. :^)

[Captain Peter Blood]

OKAY I APOLIGIZE TO ONE AND FOR THINKING AND SUGGESTING THAT AT ONE POINT IN HIS LIFE BEFORE HIS ACCIDENT THAT REEVE WAS A REPUBLICAN. I COULD HAVE SWORN I READ THAT SOMEPLACE BUT I WILL NOW ADMIT I WAS WRONG.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Kerry's nominee for Secretary of HHS.

The stadium was filled to overflowing. Ten thousand people had come to see the redoubtable Miss Kathryn Kuhlman call down miracles from heaven. Many had been turned away, but we'd arrived early. A friend had told us of this "miracle crusade" and insisted we couldn't miss it. She'd even done the driving.

We were ushered to a section just in front of a row of wheelchair patients. They lay like skeletons, too ill to sit up, covered with blankets although the night was warm. They should be home in bed, I thought. Why would God require them to come here to be healed? Would they be healed? I wanted to believe it yet couldn't. They appeared to be at death's door.

Music blared. Miss Kuhlman appeared on the podium in a diaphanous, billowing cloud. She lifted her arms and waves of white chiffon swirled in the air around her. The crowd sprang to their feet. A piano thundered and the crowd began to sing, "Because He Lives."

The air was electric with expectation. Soon a prayer line formed, led by a little nun in a black habit. Miss Kuhlman touched the nun on the forhead. The nun melted to the ground and stood up again while the crowd clapped and roared. It looked like they were having fun. They did it again. They did it seven times, in fact.

The people in the wheelchairs stayed where they were. I wondered why they hadn't been placed down front where they could be seen, touched, prayed for, where they could get out safely. Why had they been put where Miss Kuhlman would never notice them?

My daughter couldn't see what was going on. A serious accident six months earlier had impaired her vision as well as her legs. I said if she felt like standing we could walk down to the rail for a closer look. She agreed, but moments later she complained that the leg brace was hurting her foot. I bent down and took it off, stood up with it in my hand.

An usher rushed toward us. "A healing!" he cried. "Do we have a healing here?" He seemed intent on taking the offensive brace off our hands. The crowd went wild. The roar was deafening. My lips moved but I could not hear myself. I tightened my grip on the brace and shook my head. "No! We only took it off for a while. She can't walk without it!" At last he understood and walked away in resignation.

Miss Kuhlman went on doing her thing to the utter delight of the crowd. She touched people, they fell and were caught by the "catchers"and sprang up laughing. Her white chiffon billowed in the air from an electric fan strategically placed, giving an eerie, unreal effect.

Few people in the crowd would ever get near Miss Kuhlman including the dozen or so wheelchair patients. And she'd never go near them. It was sad. I wanted them to be prayed for or at least noticed. They'd endured such hardship to be here when they should have been home in bed.

Buckets were passed and a seizable "love offering" was taken. The show was over. We strapped the leg brace on again, struggled through the crowd and down the steps trying our best not to get trampled, and finally made it to the parking lot and back to the car.

We went home wondering what that was all about, wondering what on earth it had to do with the Man of Galilee, the Son of Righteousness with healing in His wings. We're still wondering to this day.

[EmilyGeiger]

He channeled him through Edwards, of course!

[EmilyGeiger]

oops, didn't see your post, LOL. But that was the first thing I thought too!

[cupcakes]

I agree. I'm having to hold my tongue on a local board for a hobby that I am in to. They are all fawning over Christopher Reeve, hero this and exceptional human being that. Funny how there wasn't one post lamenting the death of a real hero--Reagan a few months back, but I already know they are a big legion of former soccer moms on there--sigh! Can't anything creative ever have a good percentage of conservatives as part of it?
I think it really stinks what happened to him, but I don't consider him a hero, especially when he supports the butchered remains of babies to be used to heal his own wounds.

[Nevernow]

Hrm. My Mom's in a wheelchair, her left leg is paralyzed. We all heard it and laughed, then decided that if he wins, we'll pretend we voted for him and sue him when she can't regain the use of her leg. I guess, though, we wouldn't be able to say, "Don't blame me, I voted for Bush," when another terrorist attack hits. No matter how much of a lefty he was, does he really deserve to be a tool used by Kerry to tell another lie?

[jjreilly]

Perhaps we should all consider voting for John Kerry:

John Edwards at Newton High School gym in Newton, Iowa on Monday 10/11:

'We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases... When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.'

We haven't seen a Man like that in almost 2000 years.
How can Bush possibly compare?
:-)

[ILuvW]

I would expect nothing less from the ambulance chaser. This is right up his alley.

[rambo316]

Absolutely, cupcakes. I work with a bunch of Socialists and live in a Socialist state. It is very frustrating sometimes bugt you know, I find that prayer helps me out.