Bad day for war proponents

[Tramspotter]

He gets nothing but is using the disease to elicit a sympathy vote for particular candidates based on his personal tragady and issue I find it distasteful enough to go beyond limbaugh and Coulter and offer to change my vote to whomever he wants if he will shake me up a martini or manhattan with matching government funded booze.

[wendybeth]

I think Ann has voted outside her precinct one too many times this year already.

Well, I respect Fox and admire his courage. You can make fun of him all you want, but at the end of the day his is a life that mattered, and to more than just himself. He is the epitome of grace, which is ironic given his terrible illness.

[Tramspotter]

Originally Posted by wendybeth

Well, I respect Fox and admire his courage. You can make fun of him all you want, but at the end of the day his is a life that mattered, and to more than just himself. He is the epitome of grace, which is ironic given his terrible illness.

No he is not the epitome of grace for fvck sake he is putting himself out there trading in on his fame and likeability as a living shaking apeal to sympathy and emotion regarding political races based on his single issue which is also very expensive, complicated, unproven, medical and ethical slippery slope of an issue. which is then further compounded by the right to life aspect. He wants to tap public funds instead of making some sort of private foundation.

But after seeing a video clip of him I have changed my oppinion of him personally. How he responded to the limbaugh/coulter et all slamming and was cordgial to those on the other side of the issue he showed much class. Too bad he didn't just stump for the issue and show that same class in the comercial.

Interview with MJF

So lets do what he asked at the end of this piece... but nope he didn't he just clung to hope asked us to do the same and stumped for the democrats whos position might as well be fronted by the mad cloning doctor Mophesto on southpark. Ill thought out ill planned offensive as growing a clone copy to harvest organs off of. Which science is closer to doing than coaxing stem cells into some form of therapy.

And no I am not drunk just refusing to take the time to spell/grammer check if I was drunk well **** howdy I don't think you could take that kind of stream of conciousness.

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by Tramspotter

He wants to tap public funds instead of making some sort of private foundation.

Instead?

Michael J Fox Foundation

Is the Foundation a nonprofit organization?

Yes. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designated by the Internal Revenue Code.

<snip>

How much money has the Foundation given to research so far?

To date, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has funded more than $80 million in research, either directly or through partnerships.

How much of the money donated actually goes to research?

To date, 84 percent of all money donated to the Foundation has been allocated directly to research grants.

Originally Posted by Tramspotter

Too bad he didn't just stump for the issue and show that same class in the comercial. <snip> ... but nope he didn't he just clung to hope asked us to do the same and stumped for the democrats

Ah.. So THERE is your real problem, is it? You must have missed his stumping for republican Arlen Spector.

Originally Posted by Tramspotter

And no I am not drunk just refusing to take the time to spell/grammer check if I was drunk well **** howdy I don't think you could take that kind of stream of conciousness.

Good! I'd hate to think it's an alcohol haze that is responsible for the misrepresentations and hypocrisy in your post.

[SacTown Chronic]

Are you telling me Fox got Parkinson's so he could start a foundation in his name and everyone will say what a great guy he is? What a dick!

[innerSpaceman]

Would those be the candidates who might do something to allow for a cure to be found for his disease?

Is that what you call whoring? I hope this never happens to you, but come back when you have lung cancer and then tell me what you will or will not do to find a cure for lung cancer, k?

[Gn2Dlnd]

Friends don't let friends post drunk.

Won't someone please be Tramspotter's friend?

(If this is a side effect of your medication, I apologize)

[lizziebith]

I'm glad I wasn't the first to observe the Tramspotter linguistic, um, oddness. I didn't want to say anything because ....Aw hell: Jeez, dude: get a spell-checker! My eyes hurt reading these things! Sorry!

[Prudence]

I had no idea you were a medical researcher. Perhaps you could point me to some of your publications? Research studies?

[wendybeth]

So, wtf would you do if the politicans were playing football with your life, Tram? MJF is experiencing a living hell, and politics are holding up his ticket out of there. What would you do? Anything? Odds are, in your lifetime you will have something similar happen*, and the way things are going, odds are you'll be S.O.L.


*Catastrophic illness.