Blistering comment by Charles Krauthammer, himself confined to a wheelchair, about the disgusting and manipulative dishonesty of the John Edwards/John Kerry riff that President Bush's 'ban' on stem-cell research is preventing a cure for Alzheimer's. Bush has not banned stem-cell research. He has increased stem-cell research from one to 22 lines. All he has banned is research on stem-cells from embryos. As for the Alzheimer's claim, as Krauthammer says:

'This is an outright lie. The President's Council on Bioethics, on which I sit, had one of the world's foremost experts on Alzheimer's, Dennis Selkoe from Harvard, give us a lecture on the newest and most promising approaches to solving the Alzheimer's mystery. Selkoe reported remarkable progress in using biochemicals to clear the "plaque" deposits in the brain that lead to Alzheimer's. He ended his presentation without the phrase "stem cells" having passed his lips.So much for the miracle cure. Ronald D.G. McKay, a stem cell researcher at NIH, has admitted publicly that stem cells as an Alzheimer's cure are a fiction, but that "people need a fairy tale." Kerry and Edwards certainly do. They are shamelessly exploiting this fairy tale, having no doubt been told by their pollsters that stem cells play well politically for them.'

Edwards and Kerry are nothing more than snake-oil populists, willing to exploit the most potent dread and brazenly encourage the most desperate hopes with patently false promises of miracle cures. These are seriously bad men.