Posted on 07/12/2004 8:42:50 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
Yeah, Ronnie Jr. will feel real smart when he looks across the abyss and sees his dad experiencing joy and peace in the presence of his Savior while Jr. is panting for just a drop of water on his tongue.
This isn't going to be the coup the DNC might think it will be. Its only going to be an embarrassment, and just a little creepy at that.
=== You see, the Bush administration is opposed to federal funding of stem cell research
BS.
It was the Bush Administration who first BEGAN the federal funding of stem cell research.
That some believe their "do as I say, not as I do" moralizing to be legitimate speaks volumes.
Ronald Prescott Reagan is NOT Ronald Reagan Jr. His father's name was Ronald WILSON Reagan. His son has a different middle name and thus is not a Junior. He properly should be referred to as President Reagan's son Ronald Prescott.
Ron Reagan the former ballerina is a disgrace. His father would be ashamed that he is helping the liberals who are committed to destroying everything President Reagan believed in and held dear.
Nutmeg may hold the key to an Alzheimer's cure. It has as good a chance as stem cells. Just another liberal red herring, like global warming and second-hand smoke.
Ronnie is just getting in touch with his feminine side, which seems to want to dominate.
Seeing President Reagan son's betrayal to everything he stood for (in exchange for 15 minutes of fame) made me rethink my pro-life position on abortion. Well, at least a second.
BS.
It was the Bush Administration who first BEGAN the federal funding of stem cell research.
That some believe their "do as I say, not as I do" moralizing to be legitimate speaks volumes.
I don't believe that EITHER of these comments is correct
The Bush administration IS NOT opposed to funding stem cell research. It is opposed to funding stem cell research based on embryonic stem cells
It is IN FAVOR of funding research that is based on ADULT stem cells, around which there are no moral issues.
The Bush admin did not BEGIN the funding of either type of stem cell research - federal funding of a wide variety of stem cell programs (adult and embryonic) has been going on for almost two decades.
Interestingly, in almost 20 years of research that has been done with stem cells, it is work that involves ADULT stem cells, rather than embryonic, that has shown success and promise.
As already noted, the Bush administration favors adult stem cell research
With respect to embtyonic stem cells, what the Bush administration did do was allow continued funding for a small number of already existing research programs involving a number of already existing lines of embyonic stem cell lines that had already been active for years, while denying funding for any additional new research projects involving ebryonic stem cells or funding for the establishment of any additional lines of stem cells that were embryonic in origin.
First, the "Killed By" date in President Bush's groundbreaking decision to "compromise" by copping Clinton's EXACT pitch on federal embryonic stem cell research is not quite the 60-line limit so many assumed would hold.
78 Lives, er, Lines and Counting ... Latest Additions to the NIH's Stem Cell Registry ^
Second, if you read through that last link, you will notice that Bush also DOUBLED the budget of the NIH whose primary purpose is to funnel that budget right out the door and into the pockets of exactly the "private concerns" who supplied the President with his already-been-killed, excess manufacture human lives. Before you pontificate on what the Bush Administration does and does not support in the way of ESCR, I suggest you follow the money trail they've laid.
Third, in the wake of the Bush "compromise" on ESCR, two interesting things happened. A new definition of Non-Personhood (inimitably suitable for the manufacturing of human life as a cash crop) was entered into the Congressional Record and the NIH withdrew all of its contested guidelines for "human research" because -- thanks to the newly minted definition of Non-Personhood effected by Bush -- the embryos on which they were experimenting and which they were sacrificing no longer fell under the definition "human" experimentation.
And Fourth ... how anyone can speak of Bush's "limited" ESCR program (to which he intends to bribe the Best and the Brightest of the stem cell researchers in order to make the horror show ESCR every bit as productive as adult stem cell research has been) and maintain that his federal project in no way legitimizes or (if successful) will promote the manufacture and utilitarian destruction of human embryos is beyond me.
Seriously ... if you would be so kind, I'd love for you to explain to me how it is a President who's taken the incredible step of funding an ESCR project, appointing as Director of the NIH a man who made his bones at Johns-Hopkins in profit-oriented biotech and doubling the budget of the NIH who funds the academics and "private" concerns who supplied him with embryos in the first place can somehow pretend he's against the utilitarian manufacture and destruction of human lives.
Is he banking on his Hopeful Humanitarian project's being a total failure? Or -- as he promised -- is he going to see it through, attract the Best and the Brightest and support it until it hits Paydirt?
For what it's worth, he said that he didn't lobby to address the convention, he was asked and it seemed like a good opportunity to reach a large audience.
OK Ron. Whatever.
FROM THE CELEB ATHEIST LIST
Ron Reagan Jr., Talk Host ent Internet
Movie
Database
Ron had a short lived talk show a few years ago. On one show, he interviewed Charles Manson at Manson's current cell of residence. Manson began "preaching" his "message". During it, he turned to Reagan and asked, "Do you believe in god?" "No, I do not," Ron responded.
--CDA
"Its only going to be an embarrassment, and just a little creepy at that."
Why Ron Jr feels the need to continually highlight he can't escape the huge shadow his father has cast on history is beyond understanding.
The fact he is in effect disrespecting his father once more isn't surprising, its just sad.
IMHO Ronald Maximus would not have recognized the current Oval Office nincompoop. Rondald Maximus was about all winning wars and conquering enemies... (i.e. the Napoleanic axiom "when you set out to take Vienna, TAKE VIENNA vice what is happening in Falluja). If truth be known, Ronald Maximus and his wife were probably pulling for John McCain to be in the WH and hoping that the clown in the cowboy hat would have remained in Texas!
And, another thing, ballet is one of the best forms of strength and conditioning exercises known...
If that's true, then my estimation of "Ronald Maximus" would be lowered.
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