Fri Jun 14, 2019, 09:30 PM
Star Member pnwmom (98,534 posts)
Neither Biden nor anyone else should promise the impossible to get elected.
Last edited Fri Jun 14, 2019, 11:22 PM - Edit history (1)
As Biden himself has said:
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-30-rock-to-capitol-hill-on-al-franken-giant-of-the-senate/#!
Joe Biden met with Franken in the West Wing and explained the key to his 40 years of success: “Never promise anything you can’t deliver. Never. Promise. Anything. You can’t deliver.”
And yet Biden has promised that if he gets elected, a cure for cancer will be found.
There are many, many different forms of cancer and research takes time. He could honestly say he'd insist that much more money be devoted to cancer research than is currently the case -- but he cannot promise that cancer will be cured.
Why isn't it simply enough to say he'd remove the cancer from the Presidency? That alone would satisfy me.
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-says-apos-ll-cancer-132454520.html?ncid=facebook_yahoonewsf_akfmevaatca
"A lot of you understand what loss is and when loss occurs, you know that people come up to you and tell you 'I understand' if you lose a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a family member," he said. "That's why I've worked so hard in my career to make sure that — I promise you if I'm elected president, you're going to see the single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287151495Creepy Joe might be slowing down in his old age but before the doddering old fool fades away, he vows to cure cancer--and a shitload of the primitives believe him.
Response to pnwmom (Original post)Fri Jun 14, 2019, 09:41 PM
BootinUp (36,682 posts)
4. I think the fact he worked in this area for Obama
I would cut him some slack. I’m sure he was told it was possible.
Deranged.
Response to pnwmom (Original post)Fri Jun 14, 2019, 09:44 PM
Star Member LibFarmer (530 posts)
5. I know a lot about cancer and all cancers are one disease
It is a disease of the immune system which stops reacting to the cancer and ceases to kill cancerous cells.
A lot of cancers are already curable with immunotherapy and in 4 years, a lot more would be curable.
So ... stop the Biden bashing. He had a son who died of cancer and his passion is genuine.
Your passion is only to pull Biden down so a candidate of your choice (whom you have hidden under the undecided mark) will win.
Biden has a lot more credibility on this issue than a hundred OPs on DU.
This primitive knows a lot about cancer. Cancer is just one thing and all you have to do is figure out how to cure that one thing and cancer is cured. Curing cancer is going to be like falling off a log, except easier--especially for Biden.
Response to pnwmom (Reply #7)Fri Jun 14, 2019, 11:25 PM
Star Member LibFarmer (530 posts)
39. Leave it to people who know very little about something
to speak authoritatively about it on DU based upon what they learn on the internet.
Anti-vaxxers do the same thing.
Leave it to the experts. Experts like Joe Biden.
Response to pnwmom (Reply #40)Fri Jun 14, 2019, 11:40 PM
Star Member LibFarmer (530 posts)
45. Biden must have top medical experts as advisors
You can ask them.
From 70's to 2000, most of the research was on radiation, chemo and surgery.
Cancer immunology is a different animal and pays big dividends.
An average drug takes $400 million to go from an idea to a commercial product and only one out of 10 make it through Phase III trials
So $200 billion is chump change. Top notch scientists, laboratories and jumping through regulatory requirements is not cheap..
Biden and his medical expert team have probably already figured it out but we just have to elect him first, then he will make his cure available to us.
Response to pnwmom (Original post)Sat Jun 15, 2019, 12:27 AM
Star Member ucrdem (13,390 posts)
62. Hadn't heard this but it's possible he knows something we don't.
Stay tuned.
Congress should investigate Biden! He knows how to cure cancer but he's holding out on us!