GOP Senate candidate compares embryonic stem cell research to ‘what the Nazis did to the Jews.’

[babylonsister]

:wow:

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/10/gop-senate-nazi-stem-cell/


GOP Senate candidate compares embryonic stem cell research to ‘what the Nazis did to the Jews.’


ColemanIn March 2009, President Obama issued an executive order that removed President Bush’s limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, ending the tragic politicization of the issue that existed under the former president. GOP Senate candidate Curtis Coleman (R-AR), who is running against Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), blasted Obama’s decision in an interview yesterday, comparing embryonic stem cell research to “what the Nazis did to the Jews“:

On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order, removing barriers to responsible research involving human stem cells.

Coleman, however, has different view on things.

“Embryonic stem cell research is taking the concept of taking a life and using it to conduct experiments so we can temporarily extend somebody else’s life. Let me tell you what I just described. I just described what the Nazis did to the Jews in the death camps of WWII,” says Coleman.

[LeftishBrit]

1. Can you say NUTCASE?

Is there any chance that he could actually win? (hope not!)

[azurnoir]

3. AR is Arkansas so ya there is a chance

and in fact a good chance he could win

[KansDem]

7. You know, it gets to a point you just stop trying to figure their statements...

Their statements are just so bizarre! They don't make sense...they just don't make sense!

It's like GOPers are having an ongoing contest to see who can make the most batshit-crazy comment!

Each time one opens their mouth, it's the most bizarre, most senseless, most batshit crazy statement ever made!!!

...Until the next one opens their mouth.

[aquart]

2. I'm pretty sure it's not the same.

[cali]

4. well, there ya go. there is someone who could be worse than dear Blanche

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. What utter BS!

Where do they come up with these so-called candidates?

Aren't there any intelligent people who want to run?

*facepalm*

[bullwinkle428]

6. Whoa...Inhofe & Coburn have some real competition on their hands!

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Aaaargh!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unblock]

9. speaking as the son of a holocaust survivor,

coleman can go f*ck himself.

i could elaborate, but what's the use? he obviously has no idea just how incredibly wrong and offensive that statement is, and nothing i can say would change his mind, nor those of any of the complete idiots who agree with him.

[pepperbear]

10. yeah, that's exactly the same thing.

[mrs_p]

11. yeah, just the same

:sarcasm:

what an asshole

[old mark]

12. You have to wonder where these people all come from-I mean, how many

halfwits interested in politics can there be in America?

No, don't tell me.....


mark

[Sebastian Doyle]

13. Thom Hartmann has this fucking wackjob on his radio show right now

Thom gave him the "opportunity to apologize to every Holocaust survivor in Arkansas". Dumbass Coleman didn't see a "need to apologize" :eyes:

[joeybee12]

14. Coleman, get yourself a history book and read...oh wait, you probably can't read...

...never mind.

[spanone]

15. it's amazing to me how little real intelligence is required to be a senator

[NashVegas]

16. Who Needs Embyros When Adult Stem Cells Can Do This?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-wants-magnetic-muscle-makers/

Last year, Darpa-funded researchers successfully generated human muscle tissue, and the agency requested proposals for a device that could pump out new body parts made with adult stem cells. Now, Darpa’s next-gen military medicine mission continues: the agency’s budget for the upcoming year includes $6.5 million for the creation of a scaffold-free tissue engineering platform, which would allow the construction of “large, complex tissues in vitro and in vivo.”

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/pentagon-wants-magnetic-muscle-makers/#ixzz0fFdN5NlS