Posted on 11/05/2005 9:12:45 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005 11:04 p.m. EST John Kerry: 'Right Wing' Attacks Science
Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Friday that science is under attack by right-wing ideologues and the Bush administration, citing their "rigid refusal to listen to what the Earth is trying to tell us."
Speaking at the dedication of a new brain research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kerry said attacks on science have resulted in "a shortsighted period in the American experience" where "facts are ignored and obscured and distorted."
Bush has been criticized for limiting federal research dollars for embryonic stem cells, which are seen as a potential source of replacement tissue for people with a variety of ailments, and for his policies on the environment and global warming.
"We see it in the rigid refusal to listen to what the Earth is trying to tell us about the condition of the air and water and land that surround us and sustain us," Kerry said, adding that "federal science and research boards are being stacked with partisans and ideologues."
Kerry also joked about losing to Bush a year ago in the presidential election.
"I must tell you there are times when I wish we weren't here researching brain concerns but a time machine to have the election today rather than last year," he said, referring to polls showing waning public support for the president.
Tracey Schmitt, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, dismissed the criticism, saying Kerry's "newfound interest in science is a derivative of his longing to travel back in time and run a cohesive campaign."
Wow, Mr Kerry, "the earth is talking to us"???
You, sir, are a moron.
Earth to Kerry...
You have a clearly spoken supporter. Cheers...
Does this compare to Edwards talking to the spirits during a trial? Both of these idiots are without doubt exactly what the libs deserve. They give morons a bad name.
"Fredo" Kerreone, *betrayed* the US, his fellow
servicemen, and any concept of Honor & Valor...
He's not changed, he just an older Rat.
In the environmental business, the government agencies--typically staffed by bureaucrats on a mission from secular humanism--go to great lengths to ignore science. Environmental regulation in this country is largely a matter of witchcraft.
BS, Patrick is a conservative and a patriot unlike comrade Kerry.
Kerry by the way, even though he's a commie, claims to be a supernaturalist.
"They give morons a bad name." Heh heh heh. Very well put. He heh heh.
"Speaking at the dedication of a new brain research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.."
Brings to mind the scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz..
"If I only had a brain"
Kerry will you just SHUT UP!
Ms.B
I would rather listen to the One who created the Earth.
The earth is telling John Kerry it's time for another botox shot.
I'm with you on that. We were told that mankind would worship the creation, rather than Creator.
Earth to John Kerry, earth to John Kerry, AKA Lurch. You will never be president. You were ''outed'' by the swift boat veterans and exposed for the whole world to see as the traitor to this country that you are. You will never be president, and nobody wants to hear what you think! Please go away!
You are right. My sense of Kerry's simony, has no value. I stand corrected by your starboard list to the mail buoy, sir...
It's the AlGore influence.
Does ANY Democrat know how to give a speech about ANYTHING without bashing Republicans?
Every word uttered is framed to disparage the President or "Right wing" Republicans in general.
It's almost pathological.
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