Frist knocks Edwards over stem cell comment

[Khephra]

Edwards invokes legacy of Christopher Reeve

Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Posted: 8:47 PM EDT (0047 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attacked Sen. John Edwards on Tuesday over a comment the Democratic vice presidential candidate made regarding actor Christopher Reeve.

Edwards said Reeve, who died Sunday, "was a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him.

"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 will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again," Edwards said.

Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, called Edwards' remark "crass" and "shameful," and said it gave false hope that new treatments were imminent.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/12/edwards.stem.cell/

[Fenris]

1. Bill Frist murdered cats and performed medical experiments on them

He should keep his fucking piehole shut about issues of medical ethics.

[qanda]

2. Did I miss something or

Has hope been outlawed too? That must be one of the new laws in Patriot Act 2-- no hope allowed!

[Rose Siding]

3. Hope must be one of those things that are hard work

Hope is hard work, researching and finding cures are hard work, having a can-do attitude is hard work. hard hard hard and no one needs to tell W how he feels about hard work!

[donheld]

7. Hope Nazi

Seinfeld had a Soup Nazi. The senate has a Hope nazi. Bill Frist: "no hope for you":wtf:

[asjr]

4. I have an idea that might just backfire on Frist.

All Repubs are "hopeless."

[sonicx]

5. shameful like...

illegal wars, Frist?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. Republicans dismiss stem cell research as "false hope"

but claim Star Wars is real science, despite the lack of a single successful test. Go figure.

[drhilarius]

8. Oh, who cares what a buncha high falutin' scientists say?

What with their fancy degrees and years of research. I mean when have them been right? Vaccines? Worthless! Space flight? A pipe dream! Organ Transplants? Hooey! So jest sen them uppity science folk back to their librul research uni-ver-si-ties and leave the science to people who know: Pastors and Rush Limbaugh1

[Democat]

9. Frist was bashing the recently passed on Reeve as well as Edwards!

Edwards said what Reeve has been saying for years and Frist is attacking both of them by what he is saying.

Frist should be ashamed of himself for attacking a dead man for political gain.

[area51]

10. Something that's "crass" & "shameful" ...

is how cat-killer Frist made his family's wealth -- through republinazi HMOs which exist to deny people healthcare.

[AP]

11. Yes. That's it, Bill. Please talk about Edwards. Make people think about..

...Edwards.

Bill, you dope, would you mind coming over here near the ropes? And please keep swinging hard.