Barry writes letters

enrevanche: You’re gonna use the first veto of your entire freaking Presidency for THIS?

Dear President Bush,

As a person affected by diabetes, I strongly urge you to enact H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.

As you know, diabetes is a serious, life-threatening, chronic illness for which there is no cure. Not enacting H.R. 810 would be a devastating setback for the nearly 21 million American children and adults living with the disease!

I strongly believe that all forms of stem cell research should move forward within a strong ethical framework.

His first veto? On this? Bush is making it harder and harder for me to be a Republican, one stupid move at a time.

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Comments

  1. Steve Verdon wrote:

    Well, I don’t mind vetoing a bill that uses tax dollars for this kind of research…but then again, I don’t like my tax dollars going to lots of boondoggle things like No Child Left Behind, the Elderly Prescription Drug Plan, the Highway Bill, the Energy Bill, Faith Based Initiatives, and so on.

    Of course, if Bush had vetoed the above bills I’d like him alot more than I do now. Frankly, Bush is a Liberal save when it comes to gay marriage, abortion, and defense.

    Posted 19 Jul 2006 at 1:42 pm

  2. cassandra wrote:

    That diabetic actually has more reason to hope for results from adult stem cell or cord blood research than from embryonic, which has been a dry hole.

    It pisses me off the way the med and big pharma establishment get all the diabetics and other sick people of the world to shill for them. Yeah, but for W, we’d be able to cure you! And Christopher Reeves would be able to walk! Disgusting.

    Posted 19 Jul 2006 at 5:57 pm

  3. Barry Campbell wrote:

    Cassandra,

    With all due respect, if you think I’m shilling for *anyone* (I’m “that diabetic” that you refer to in your comment above), you need desperately to be educated about the facts involved and the issues in dispute. 70% of the American public back embryonic stem cell research; it’s not “big pharma” pushing for this research.

    If you take a hard look at who’s supporting stem cell research and who’s opposing it, here’s what you’ll find:

    Virtually the entire scientific and medical community supports embryonic stem cell research, and so does the vast majority of the American people.

    Those opposing it tend to be scientifically illiterate theocrats who are obsessed with the abortion issue–and the canny, calculating politicians who are pandering to the aforementioned group.

    Sadly, there are enough of those people in this country to impede scientific progress.

    For now.

    Talk about “disgusting.”

    Posted 20 Jul 2006 at 7:42 am

  4. Pablo wrote:

    You can’t know where the bottom of a hole is if you haven’t begun to plumb its depths.
    Which we have not.

    Posted 20 Jul 2006 at 2:15 pm

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