Only 2 GOP candidates at Lance Armstrong Cancer Forum

[OzarkDem]

All the Dem candidates showed up last night for a quality, in-depth discussion yesterday with Lance Armstrong discussing detailed agendas for eradicating cancer and health care reform.

However, only 2 GOP candidates are attending the GOP version of the Presidential Cancer Forum, Brownback and Huckabee

“The answer is not just to say I'm going to double (research) funding because it might take triple the funding,'' Brownback said. He went on to explain that if President Kennedy had simply called for doubling finding for NASA it wouldn't have had the same impact as setting a goal of putting a person on the moon in 10 years.

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Rather than call for a government-run health care system as the Democratic candidates advocated Monday, Brownback called for more market options. He would allow people more options in buying insurance, utilize individual medical record-banking to allow people to control their record, and more price information disclosed so patients can make informed choices.


http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/IOWACAUCUS/70828019/1011/IOWACAUCUS

Where were the other GOP candidates? Mitt Romney showed up at a "special" cancer forum for the other GOP candidates moderated by a member of the Bush administration - Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G Komen for the Cure Foundation. Nancy & Mitt sat on silver chairs with pink pillows.. Softball questions and weak policy were in abundance for Nancy Brinker's cancer forum, according to FAUX news..

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Aug28/0,4670,RomneyCancer,00.html

Romney and the group's founder, Nancy G. Brinker, sat on stage in matching silver armless chairs, their backs against huge pink pillows, as she posed a handful of questions that other presidential candidates had already answered via videotape.

Romney got into the spirit of the event, twice borrowing the group's slogan to say, "I'm getting pinked up!"

Brinker did not ask Romney about his opposition to embryonic stem cell research, a position that puts him at odds with many health care advocacy groups. But she did want to know what he would do help further the fight against cancer."

[DS1]

1. Hey Brownback, this isn't the space race. People are dying every day you fucking dick!

but at least you showed up

[Berry Cool]

2. Mitt Romney was too busy sitting in cushy pink chairs with Nancy Brinker

of the Susan G. Komen foundation...aka "Bush Pioneers for Breast Cancer." I call them a pro-breast cancer organization because they only care about making it more survivable, not preventable. That means more money for research for Big Pharma, and a wee bit tossed toward medical care but no serious research into cause or prevention.

Breast cancer is far too profitable a disease for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to ever want it to actually disappear.

[OzarkDem]

5. Brinker works in the Bush Administration now

This was obviously a Bushco staged event to promote Romney and attempt to upstage Lance Armstrong's forum. There's barely any mention of Dem candidates in coverage of her/Bush's forum.

Lance's event got much wider coverage and did a much better job of bringing out all the issues. Mitt & Rudy will be sorry they skipped it.

[cgrindley]

3. I don't know about Lance

I don't really believe that he did those tours clean. Just being around cyclists today is probably a bad move politically. It's pretty much the pariah sport.

[OzarkDem]

6. He's a hero in the cancer world

He's used his celebrity to call attention to real cancer issues that the old fashioned cancer groups overlook. He's really in it to make a big difference, not just to make money.

[cgrindley]

8. Yeah, that part I get

I just don't know. There are lots of other cancer charities to support.

[ludwigb]

9. In Lance's Defense

He bailed out of the sport recently (the team he partially owned folded). So he's pretty much a full-time cancer advocate now.

[cgrindley]

11. He didn't really have a choice in that one

Yeah. It's hard to speak ill of someone who's done so much good for cancer awareness, so I'll just leave it at that.

[democrat2thecore]

4. Huckabee was there - and prepared

He had facts, figures, humor, he was thoughtful and even compassionate. This guy scares me more than ANY of the so-called "front runners."

[OzarkDem]

7. He did poorly on health care reform

throwing a bunch of money at research isn't going to solve the problem. People are looking for a lot more today.

[Lucinda]

13. I agree

He is as charming as someone who is wrong about just about everything can be. And that is scary.

[Az]

10. Well Lance is an admitted atheist

GOP can't be seen supporting any atheists.

[cgrindley]

12. See? Now I have to like Lance again...

Atheism probably outweighs the lingering accusations of you know what abuse in his past.