Read it here.Cardin promises cancer cure
Senate candidate pitches health credentials, plan to beat disease by 2015Sun reporterWith a month to go before primary voters head to the polls to choose Senate nominees, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off yesterday a weeklong effort to highlight his congressional record and vision on health care by making the mother of all campaign promises - to cure cancer.
Cardin, a Democrat from Baltimore County, gathered with cancer survivors and doctors in Lutherville to detail his efforts to expand cancer screening and his plans to fight the disease.
"We are going to lick cancer by 2015," Cardin told a group of 15 people at the HopeWell Cancer Support Center on Falls Road.
The specifics of Cardin's proposal are a bit less startling than the headline promises -- essentially funding for embryonic stem cell research, expanded medicare benefits, and more money for government bureaucrats. Still, the proposal is a bit disquieting. Cardin is one of those pols who seems to think that all problems can be solved by merely throwing money at them.
It's clear what he's up to. He wants to draw a clear distinction between himself and Michael Steele, a Catholic who opposes embryonic stem cell research. The other candidate in the race, Kweisi Mfume sides with Cardin on this issue. But the terms in which Ben [whom I met and conversed with for the first time a couple of weeks ago -- he seems amiable enough, and we have mutual friends so I won't speak ill of him] couches his announcement are pure fantasy -- demagoguery of the worst sort.
What next? Will he show up at the Harbor to walk on water?
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