Posted on 10/15/2004 7:47:46 AM PDT by Salty Cobra
An Edwards Outrage 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.
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I was waiting for this article as i knew Charles would be pissed. No need to say anymore. Charles said it well.
Im Love this man, and I had NO idea he was in a wheelchair...each time he's on, hes SO GOOD, calm and smart...
god bless him
(I swear, Oct must be "Waste Bandwidth Month")
This is the column I've been expecting from Krauthammer.
That was the single most despicable comment I have ever heard a politician make. Ever. Edwards should be ashamed, but as a trial lawyer I doubt that he possesses the ability.
This article should somehow be required reading for every voter.
Psst. Go take the Zogby Interactive poll - seems it gets a lot of media play for some bizarre reason.
http://interactive.zogby.com/battleground/indexweb.cfm
As a physician and a paraplegic, he has every right to be outraged.
The Kerry campaign better use their cure paralysis plan on Kerry and Edwards immediately.
Typical ambulance chaser rhetoric.
Loathsome. The word certainly describes the little snot-nosed punk.
Charles is also on the President's Ethics Board regarding stem cell, cloning, etc, research.
Interesting...I did not know that.
Does anyone know why Charles Krauthammer is in a wheelchair? I have known that for quite awhile now, but have often wondered about the cause of his paralysis.
He's also quoted in the manuscript on embryonic stem cell exploitation linked at the following addy: http://weneedtalk.blogspot.com
This should be printed and handed out at all Edwards appearances.
Auto accident I believe.
He was injured in an auto accident while at Harvard Medical School. He finished his medical education, residency, etc., in his wheelchair. Great guy.
Interesting bio of Krauthammer. Doesn't mention his accident, but if I recall, it was a diving accident many years ago that put him in the wheelchair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/opinions/krauthammer.htm
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