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Nov

by Moonage

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."

During the 2004 Presidential election, John Edwards reached what I perceived to be the all-time low in political pandering by promising that if elected, they would have people like Christopher Reeve walking again. It was one of the few events of the race that just truly disgusted me.

Well, I may have been premature in my disgust.  John Edwards may have known something.  For, no sooner than the election’s over, and Bush hasn’t even been sworn in yet, we have this:

Stem cells offer treatment for incontinence
Transplant procedure resolves urinary leakage, researchers say
Not quite the cure Edwards was promising is it?
I’m still disgusted by how the Johns abused this topic.

Tags: , Filed Under 2004 Presidential Election, Opinions 

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  1. Another Stem Cell Breakthrough! at Moonage SpaceDream on 05.04.2007

    [...] in stem cell research.? As such, I’m a little touchy on the subject.? In November 2004, I wrote about how SOME politicians were pandering the issue for votes.? I was immediately shut-up by the immediately press release of a major stem cell breakthrough, [...]

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