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There were several articles in google, but this is the URL for the cited article in New Democrats OnLine. http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=131&subid=192&contentid=251712 Alison Landes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Can someone post the link to this speech/post? Thank you. Alison Landes In a message dated 5/26/2003 4:30:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > Subj:Joe Lieberman Enters the History Books > Date:5/26/2003 4:30:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time > From:[log in to unmask] > Reply-to:[log in to unmask] > To:[log in to unmask] > Sent from the Internet > > > > posted 05-26-2003 03:10 AM > > --------------------------------- > > Posted on MGH Bulletin Board and Listserve. > > I don't think Joe Lieberman has a chance of being President. Not smooth > enough, not enough of all the bs it takes to become president. When they were > passing out charisma, he was somewhere else. > > That said, I think that it is absolutely extrordinary that a serious > presidential contender like Lieberman would essentially base an entire presidential > campaign on a platform of curing neurological disease, and all the more > remarkable is his focus on attacking President Bush on the stem cell issue. > The extraction of embryonic stem cells from tissue by Thompson and Gearhart > a few short years ago has proven to hold out the possibility of curing most > neurological diseases within our lifetimes. But the education of the public, > making the whys and wherefores of a difficult science understandable and > interesting to the American public has always been the challenge. > > The community of the chronically ill and those with disabling conditions has > worked long and hard to meet this challange. Jeff Martin's and Jim Cordy's > testimony before the Congress last week was just the most recent attempt to > convince Congress, and the public, of the absolute importance of this research. > Lieberman's campaign is proof that in some fundamental way that challenge > is being met. > > Joe Lieberman's "cure disease" platform is certain to change forever the > political and public perception of the importance of the subject of stem cells > and the need and ability to cure neurolgical illness. He will last long enough > to turn the spotlgiht on this issue as perhaps the most important public > policy decision of our time. > Lieberman has just entered the history books if he gets knocked out in the > first primary. > > I bet Karl Rove has his thinking cap on quite tightly right now. > > Greg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.