[MD Senate Candidate] Cardin promises cancer cure

Baltimore Sun ^ | 8/15/06 | Doug Donovan

[BlackRazor]

Cardin promises cancer cure
Senate candidate pitches health credentials, plan to beat disease by 2015

By Doug Donovan
Sun reporter
Originally published August 15, 2006

With a month to go before primary voters head to the polls to choose Senate nominees, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off yesterday a weeklong effort to highlight his congressional record and vision on health care by making the mother of all campaign promises - to cure cancer.

Cardin, a Democrat from Baltimore County, gathered with cancer survivors and doctors in Lutherville to detail his efforts to expand cancer screening and his plans to fight the disease.

"We are going to lick cancer by 2015," Cardin told a group of 15 people at the HopeWell Cancer Support Center on Falls Road.

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Coinciding with the event, the Cardin campaign released yesterday an Internet campaign commercial in which a cancer survivor discusses how early detection saved him.

"They caught mine early and I'm cured," Dr. Edwin Adelson says in the ad. "Thanks to Ben Cardin, others can have their chance. ... He's literally a lifesaver."

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Dr. Marvin Schuster, a retired Johns Hopkins gastroenterologist, said Cardin has been a leader on health care since he was first elected in 1987.

"Hillary Clinton once told me that Ben knows more about health care than any member of Congress, and she's right," said Schuster, who attended yesterday's event.

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Zach Messitte, a political scientist at St. Mary's College, said Cardin's comments are not unrealistic.

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Messitte said voters should expect all of the Democratic senate candidates to focus on medical issues because of Republican candidate Michael S. Steele's opposition to embryonic stem cell research.

[kinoxi]

sigh...

[RebelBanker]

Come on, FRiend, you know that the Baltimore Pravda is the public relations arm of the Maryland Democrat Party! The problem here is the number of sheeple with room temperature IQs who actually believe the bullcrap this rag publishes.

[Screamname]

"We are going to lick cancer by 2015,"

Ewwwwww....Won`t that get you cancer of the tongue?

[markomalley]

"They caught mine early and I'm cured," Dr. Edwin Adelson says in the ad. "Thanks to Ben Cardin, others can have their chance. ... He's literally a lifesaver."

Lemme see if I have this straight:

• Algore invented the Internet
• Ben Cardin cured cancer.

I think I've got it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

/sarc

[desherwood7]

This nut sounds like John Edwards.

[SC DOC]

Straight from the NCI Playbook. It is not known what impact nanotechnology will have in the next 10 years, but current modalities of detection and treatment have offered only incremental progress over the past 20 years, with no major breakthroughs. Early detection leads to successful treatment in most cancers, but advanced disease is largely incurable, with a few exceptions.

[NRA1995]

"Lemme see if I have this straight:

Algore invented the Internet
Ben Cardin cured cancer.
I think I've got it."

You forget that John Edwards promised that Christopher Reeve would walk again.

[lionheart 247365]

Dear Ben , yes there is a cancer in our society and it takes the form of liberal dimocrats of which you are one . Now what was that cure ???

[Rightfootforward]

PAGING MARYLAND VOTERS.....

VOTE FOR LT. GOV. MICHAEL STEELE (R)

[aligncare]

...and in a bold move to attract older voters to his camp, Ben Cardin promised to introduce legislation that would ban death until the age of 100. His supporters cheered.

[sr4402]

Democrats can heal. I heal this woman of conservatism and restore her to liberalism and the democrat way of sin. Yes, I want every woman to have an abortion and release her husband into the alternative lifestyle and marraige.

/Sarcasm Off

[Dead Dog]

I can't think of a crueler, more cynical campaign promise.

[pointsal]

Really it is just Al Gore with a mask.

[mysterio]

"We are going to lick cancer by 2015"

Awesome. I'm for it. Three questions, though.

1. What's your biochemistry and biotechnology background?

2. What's the plan?

3. Will this amazing cure cover all types of cancer?

[blau993]

Even the Sun has to stretch a bit to pump up Ben Cardin. The man is the epitome of the do-nothing, time-serving, big city machine RAT. I say all of this with great affection (NOT), since he is my congresscritter. Not that I've ever laid eyes on him. Part of Annapolis was gerrymandered into his district a few years back. The only time I ever hear from him is when I get his newsletters, which are notoriously short on any actual news. Each one asks me to send him "feedback" in the form of multpile choice answers to ridiculous push poll questions.

[Old Professer]

Old Buzz Windrip only promised each person $10,000...

[Old Professer]

Cancer is a software problem within the gene; how can we possibly write enough patches to keep it from crashing?

[agere_contra]

Didn't Nixon launch a war against cancer? How did that work out? Ah yes, it was a massive waste of money and produced no cure for cancer. But this time things will be different, because Cardin, well, he shares our pain.

[SC DOC]

Good Analogy!