On a personal level, it’s impossible not to feel great sympathy for Joe Biden when he talked about his son Beau, who died of brain cancer in May at age 46. His anguish still visible on Wednesday, as he announced he would not seek the presidency, Biden said he was making a “personal” commitment to seek instead a cure for cancer; as he put it, “I’m going to spend the next 15 months in this office pushing as hard as I can to accomplish this.”
Moreover, Biden went further: He summoned up the memory of John F. Kennedy—a hero to most Americans, and all Democrats—when he called for “a moon shot in this country to cure cancer.” That’s some ambitious thinking; as we all know, the Apollo project, landing astronauts on the moon in 1969, was one of the great triumphs of American history.
But of course, it’s easy to see why Biden feels as he does about cancer— and it’s also easy to see that most Americans agree with him. After all, some 600,000 Americans die from the disease every year; cancer has been called “The Emperor of Maladies” for good reason.
Okay, so much for personality, -now let’s get to politics.
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4 comments:
There's no war against cancer. It's a war FOR cancer. There's too much money to be made treating the symptoms than curing the problem. Big pharma is in control - not you or I.
Don't understand why people grieve so much for Joe. Beau received (free) VA treatment for his cancer. Hunter, after he received his Naval commission, was thrown out for Cocaine use. The Biden's are an entitlement family.
How about the War on our Constitution? Step up to that you clowns!!!
1:54-Like the cancer vaccine that has offically been perfected but would literally cost someone their life if they dared make it available to the public? I agree.
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