20060815 KDDC Missing Issue

"Missing Issue"
(c) Kevin Dayhoff
August 15th, 2006

20060815 KDDC Check Out ation

"Check Out Ation"
(c) Kevin Dayhoff
August 15th, 2006

20060815 KDDC Ben Cardin to cure cancer

Ben Cardin to cure cancer

August 15^th, 2006

Before I say another word, I gotta tell ya, God Bless everyone who is running for office. Considering today’s technology which allows saturation coverage of every candidate’s every waking moment. Anyone – everyone - can and will make a mistake or say something that will be taken out of context or utter words that may be misconstrued by the practitioners of professional outrage.

Need I mention this or this or here?

Never-the-less, BlogDC (“100,000 Airplanes” By Andrew Daniller) has the scoop that Congressman Ben Cardin is going to cure cancer.

No mention as to whether or not he invented the Internet.

Hat Tip: Wonkette: “More fuel for the debate on whether life in Washington imitates The West Wing or whether The West Wing imitates life. [Blog DC]”

Apparently BlogDC found it in a post on MyDD: “Ben Cardin's Promise to Cure Cancer” by Matt Stoller, Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 12:30:42 PM EST:

“Let's say a credible biochemist friend told you that it was likely that we could cure many forms of cancer by 2015. Would you believe him? Let's say, on the other hand, that a politician running in a hotly contested primary, told you that if you elected him he would cure cancer by 2015. Would you believe him? Welcome to Ben Cardin's strategy. Color me skeptical of Cardin's political approach.”

However, BlogDC made an inaccurate conclusion – Maryland’s Lt. Governor Michael Steele will be out next U. S. Senator.

Anyway – this is what the BlogDC said:

“Remember that episode of The West Wing from the middle of the third season when Bartlet had just been censured by Congress and needed a huge State of the Union bump to give him any chance of winning reelection and so he and Sam began to obsess about promising a cure for cancer within ten years as a message of hope for the country?

Well, I do, and Rep. Ben Cardin is stealing the plot (via Matt Stoller):

"We are going to lick cancer by 2015," Cardin told a group of 15 people

at the HopeWell Cancer Support Center on Falls Road.

Maryland, I hope you like Kweisi Mfume, because he's about to be your next Senator.”

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