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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (596368)	7/28/2004 6:45:19 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Unfair?? SInce when does that have anything to do with anything a Dem is doing these days? SAme with Clinton's speech. I listened to Rush and he PROVED where Clinton, in his speech the other night, lied about President Bush FIVE times in one little context, and no of the media called him out on it

To: JDN who wrote (596368)	7/28/2004 5:31:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

JDN, (note that some of the Dem convention organizers tried, however delicately, to get Reagan to change some of the language in his speech --- but they failed.) As to your comments to 'give Bush credit for "allowing" stem cell research'... 'Ya gotta be kidding! He straddled the issue, calculated the effects on his political base, and then made the purely political choice to sign up with the Luddites. As a result, American spinal cord and Lou Gherig's disease patients (to name just a few) are traveling to England and to mainland China to get life-saving treatments because the treatments are banned in the US, and biotech businesses are planning the industries of the future (and the jobs that go with them) in locations other then the US.... July 28, 2004 CQ TODAY Convention Organizers Sought to Alter Reagan's Speech By Craig Crawford, CQ Columnist nytimes.com How could anyone tell a Reagan how to give a speech? Yet that is what Ron Reagan says the Democratic convention organizers tried to do after seeing an advance copy of his Tuesday speech advocating stem cell research. "They said, 'We think there is too much science in here,'" Reagan said with a laugh. "Hey guys, this is a scientific topic," Reagan told the DNC speech monitors. The DNC also asked if he could "broaden" the final line of his speech urging Americans to "cast a vote for embryonic stem cell research" on Nov. 2. Obviously, they would have liked it better if he said, "Cast a vote for JOHN KERRY." Reagan persuaded the DNC to back off by noting that he spent three days vetting the technical language with a Harvard professor, Dr. Leonard Zon, and did not want to change a word. Chalk this one up as a rare victory for science over politics. Craig Crawford is a special contributor to Congressional Quarterly and a news analyst for MSNBC, CNBC and "The Early Show" on CBS. He can be reached at ccrawford@cq.com. Copyright 2004