The Tumor in the War on Cancer

Written By: Michael Tennant  |  Posted: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Gen. George S. Patton said, "Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth." Indeed, one would be hard-pressed to find a group of people more eager to take advantage of others' misfortunes to increase their own power and inflate their own egos than our so-called public servants. When it comes to exploiting tragedies, they are shameless.

For a prime example one doesn't need to look any further than Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Basking in glorious mainstream media coverage for having switched from the Republican wing of the Government Party to its Democratic wing - purely to save his own skin in this year's primary election, or so he hopes - Specter used the occasion of the death of a former colleague to stump for increased federal funding of medical research. In a May 3 appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, Specter told Bob Schieffer, "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp [who died of cancer on May 2, 2009] would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."

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