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.
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?
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.
Huckster said that in a recent debate? Just goes to show you how memorable this campaign has been this time around.
Cancer is a huge industry. A lot of it pushes expensive pharma treatments and not a cure.
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.
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.
It’s the cancer of Leftist Progressivism that needs to be cured.
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
Cool, I can then go back to smoking.
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?
I didn’t know Obama was such a brilliant scientist. /s
Just like he stopped the rising of the sea! Huzzah, huzzah
Period. Period.
I love babbling idiot bing in charge of serious things - don’t you
Then they’ll just find a judge and rewrite the rules mid-game. That sort of thing has been done before.
Winner, winner gets a chicken dinner!
I still had 129 days to go when he signed that. They still had wage and price controls.
And Biden to head it up, sheer genius.
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