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Obama vows to cure cancer ‘once and for all’
The Hill ^ | Jan 16, 2015 | Sarah Ferris

Posted on 01/12/2016 6:36:14 PM PST by presidio9

President Obama is pledging a "new national effort" to find a cure for cancer in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday.

"For the loved ones we've all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all," Obama wrote in his joint address to Congress, according to remarks released by the White House.

Obama said the efforts are inspired by — and will be led by — Vice President Biden, who has launched a high-profile push to end cancer after losing his oldest son last year.

"Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer," Obama said Tuesday. "Tonight, I'm announcing a new national effort to get it done."

Just hours earlier Tuesday, a group of biotech companies, drugmakers, doctors and researchers formally announced a coalition called the Cancer MoonShot 2020 — a reference to Biden's speech in the Rose Garden last October when he promised a "moon shot" to end cancer.


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 2020; biden; cancer; fakenews; joebiden; obamacurecancer; obamalastsotu; obamasotu; trump
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Didn’t we just spend a month hearing about how Martin Shkreli was a typical greedy 1%er, lighting cigars with $100 bills while he denied the AIDS cure away from people who couldn’t afford it?


61 posted on 01/12/2016 7:19:24 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: BlueNgold
All signs still point to a VPJB convention white horse arrival without either a. the expense or b. the competitive exposure of a primary dog fight with the woman or the socialist. He doesn’t have to look like ‘another old white guy’ bullying the girl, and he doesn’t have to go on record being as (or more) give away happy as Bernie

Someone would have to look into the deadlines for primaries, but I do know that Biden has missed several. If Clinton gets indicted, Sanders will rack up delegates unopposed, and the rules are that the delegates have to honor the vote on the first ballot.

If Sanders has enough votes, he will win the nomination, and there is not a thing POTUS or VPJB or the DNC or Dr. Jill Biden can do about it.

62 posted on 01/12/2016 7:23:18 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/10/29/huckabees-new-policy-position-cure-cancer/


63 posted on 01/12/2016 7:23:36 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Honestly it does not matter. Huckabee is going nowhere, and now that he has decided to be an attacker, he is tanking even further. Anyway, I don’t have the transcript of the debate. I was going from memory.

Huckster said that in a recent debate? Just goes to show you how memorable this campaign has been this time around.

64 posted on 01/12/2016 7:24:48 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Cancer is a huge industry. A lot of it pushes expensive pharma treatments and not a cure.


65 posted on 01/12/2016 7:25:02 PM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Drugs save lives. They saved mine from double pneumonia once. Glad they saved yours.

But you cannot deny that SOME parts of the cancer industry don’t have a real cure at heart but instead push extraneous treatments that one day will be seen as barbaric.


66 posted on 01/12/2016 7:27:14 PM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: presidio9

Since more people will die of cancer than will ever die of global warming it makes you wonder why this was his last priority rather than his first. At least we know where we can get the research money. Just take it from the chicken littles and give it to medical research.


67 posted on 01/12/2016 7:30:17 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: presidio9

It’s the cancer of Leftist Progressivism that needs to be cured.


68 posted on 01/12/2016 7:30:30 PM PST by Maceman
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To: presidio9

HUCKABEE: We need to be focusing on what fixes this country. And I’ll tell you one thing that we never talk about - we haven’t talked about it tonight.

Why aren’t we talking about - instead of cutting benefits for old people, cutting benefits for sick people - why don’t we say, “let’s cure the four big cost-driving diseases..

QUICK: Governor?

HUCKABEE: -”diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s?”

QUICK: Governor, I’m sorry..

HUCKABEE: If you do that, you don’t just change the economy, you transform the lives of millions of hurting Americans.
- See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/10/29/huckabees-new-policy-position-cure-cancer/#sthash.5uNJZfzZ.dpuf


69 posted on 01/12/2016 7:32:13 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: presidio9

Cool, I can then go back to smoking.


70 posted on 01/12/2016 7:32:43 PM PST by Gator113 (Happy New Year!)
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To: presidio9

The Dems superdelegates are almost all for HRC so far. I think she gets enough votes, even with an indictment, to prevent Bernie from a first ballot win. The theory is there are enough SDs to prevent any candidate from a nomination without them.

If they (SDs) hold back support from HRC due to a legal problem, the brokering begins. I expect the indictment, or even just a statement by the AG that they received a recommendation of charges they are reviewing seriously (formal indictment not required) pretty late in the process, after she has enough support to prevent a Bernie win outright, but before the convention.

Plus, remember this theory is based on the election gymnastics for a. the Obama machine, and b. the dems. Do rules really apply?


71 posted on 01/12/2016 7:34:45 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: presidio9

I didn’t know Obama was such a brilliant scientist. /s


72 posted on 01/12/2016 7:36:42 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Once elected who can make the best deals with Congress?)
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To: presidio9

Just like he stopped the rising of the sea! Huzzah, huzzah
Period. Period.


73 posted on 01/12/2016 7:37:58 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: presidio9

I love babbling idiot bing in charge of serious things - don’t you


74 posted on 01/12/2016 7:39:08 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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75 posted on 01/12/2016 7:43:03 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: presidio9
Well if he commits hari kari he will remove a cancer on the American people, that would be a start.
76 posted on 01/12/2016 7:50:16 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: presidio9

Then they’ll just find a judge and rewrite the rules mid-game. That sort of thing has been done before.


77 posted on 01/12/2016 7:50:32 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Mastador1
Well if he commits hari kari he will remove a cancer on the American people, that would be a start.

Winner, winner gets a chicken dinner!

78 posted on 01/12/2016 7:52:26 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Soul of the South

I still had 129 days to go when he signed that. They still had wage and price controls.


79 posted on 01/12/2016 7:58:08 PM PST by Domangart
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To: presidio9
Gosh, what a novel idea!!! So Original!

And Biden to head it up, sheer genius.

80 posted on 01/12/2016 8:02:38 PM PST by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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