If you had ten times the brains you’re using – half the brain of a normal person — you would have realized that it was simply a clumsily formed sentence. It was an awkward idea to express, whether Chris (when he was alive, clown) was going to get up and walk, or people like Chris Reeve were going to get up and walk, no one is going to guarantee that they can cure paralysis simply by virtue of embryonic SCR.

I think those Mercedes fumes are getting to you, Jackie. Time for an emissions inspection?

Frank, you stupid idiot.

Christopher Reeve is dead.

You are an unthinking, unfeeling, clump of mush.

JK

If people are so outraged about using those embryos for research, why aren t they outraged at what happens to them if they are not used for research?

I can’t speak for anybody else, but I’m outraged.

I see your bs and raise.

http://www.stemcellresearchfoundation.org/WhatsNew/March_2006.html#6

So the truth, people like Chris Reeve, or Chris Reeve himself, are not going to walk simply if embryonic SCR continues.

Conservatives echoed Drudge’s doctored quotation of Edwards on stem cell research

In your irrelevant debate quote, he wanted Christopher Reeve to walk again. Didn’t you? I don’t see a promise there.

Have the shame to walk away from this thread, please, you’re humiliating yourself (again).

And I don’t see stem cell research as the way “to wipe out Parkinson s, Alzheimers and spinal cord injuries.” There’s other kinds of stem cell research going besides cast off embryos. There is no guarantee that stem cell research will cure anything, and no guarantee that the other kinds of stem cell researc won’t cure such things.

Finally, if I had to choose between Bethoven and the cure for cancer — even every kind of cancer — I’d still go for Beethoven.

To paraphrase the Furry Freak Brothers: Beethoven will get you through times of cancer, better than no cancer will get you through times of no Beethoven.

From the 2nd Debate:

Kerry: Chris Reeve is a friend of mine. Chris Reeve exercises every single day to keep those muscles alive for the day when he believes he can walk again, and I want him to walk again. I think we can save lives.

Not people “like” Reeve. Reeve himself.

And at the time Kerry made this statement, Christopher Reeve was still very much alive.

If you’re parsing that finely, then you should be all over the “Bush Lied” people who are basing their position on the 14 words.

“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”

One cannot reverse engineer a person s potetial.

But supporters of stem-cell research funding are definitly reverse engineering the research potential. Specifically John Edwards promising that Christopher Reeve will walk again when the science has so far proven no such thing.

If you want opponents to stop hauling out the “you killed Beethoven” line, you should be willing to drop the “you’re against curing Parkinson’s” line.