Rush Limbaugh's comments re: Parkinson J. Fox

[Guest guest]

Imogene

I'm with you. I understood the piece that was shown on TV was taken from his

appearance before Congress.

Jacqui in So Florida

[Guest guest]

Yes Dann, And it is time to move on from that issue here too. If any of you

want to continue the political conversation, you need to take it to private

email, please.

There really aren't any answers. And there are lots of opinions, and I don't

want us to get divided!

Thanks for the reminder Dann.

Hugs,

Donna R

Caregave for Mom (after I brought her from WI to MI) for 3 years and 4th year in

a nh.

She was almost 89 when she died in '02. No dx other than mine.

Re: Re: Rush Limbaugh's comments re: Parkinson

J. Fox

There is an old joke, that goes something like this: If you have only one

attorney in town, and he/she is under employeed. Get a 2nd attorney, and both

will be busy.

Apparently, there is disagreement for embryo stem cell research among PhD

Biochemists, Neurologists, etc. I just want to find a cure for Parkinsons'

Disease and LBD. Even better would be a way to prevent them like Sauk did

for Polio.

There are so many things that unite this LBD group.

We had best concentrate on those issues.

My wife and I didn't wait for the November Election. She has surgery

scheduled at Mayo Clinic the day before, so we already voted, absentee last

week. We didn't talk before hand, but we talked after: neither of us voted a

straight ticket.

The majority of Congressmen and Senators: Both Republican controlled branches

of the U.S. Congress voted last month to approve new embryo stem cell research.

The President vetoed the bill.

Our pastor prays for all things good for our President Bush: I also wish him

the blessing of wise leadership. We are all praying for a miracle.

I was a sitting member of my church council, when the Pastor proposed that

we endorse G.W.Bush for President at the last election.

I spoke up and said with certainty: this was the best issue we could find to

divide and separate our congregation.

At my church council, we moved on to the next issue.

Dann

donna@... wrote:

Quoting " robert o. swift " :

> J Fox is just another Hollywood celebrity trying to use any

> possible means to get another Liberal Democrat in office. Putting

> his condition on display, in it's worse possible form, to pursue a

> political goal, under the guise of concern about a narrowly specific

> form of medical research, was disingenuous and deserves critical

> comment.

AMEN !

While I know as much as anyone how horrific parkinson's is - I too

feel that his motives - we're a little questionable.

DOnna

[Guest guest]

It is important to note that J. Fox admitted to NOT taking his

medications when he testified before congress so his symptoms would be more

prominent.

Margee

---- Janet Colello wrote:

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Count me in on that too Donna K. and . J. Fox has an agenda

and though it is understandable he would like a cure, as well as the rest of

us that have had to deal with Parkinsons in any form. I too believe his motives

were questionable. I do not doubt that he has days like he displayed, I have

seen worse and think that Rush's remark about faking it was uncalled for. I

think both Rush's and 's actions were both in poor taste, as most of the

political advertisements and hype are these days. Jan

[Guest guest]

Margee, are you there? Go to IM .......Jan

Margee wrote: It is important to note that J. Fox

admitted to NOT taking his medications when he testified before congress so his

symptoms would be more prominent.

Margee

---- Janet Colello wrote:

=============

Count me in on that too Donna K. and . J. Fox has an agenda

and though it is understandable he would like a cure, as well as the rest of us

that have had to deal with Parkinsons in any form. I too believe his motives

were questionable. I do not doubt that he has days like he displayed, I have

seen worse and think that Rush's remark about faking it was uncalled for. I

think both Rush's and 's actions were both in poor taste, as most of the

political advertisements and hype are these days. Jan

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

[Guest guest]

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to tell you that I am

O. Swift's daughter.

My mother is his wife.

The LBD patient I've discussed, in days gone by, is my mother, and is

's wife. ROS is my dad.

We are polar opposites, in many ways. We love one another, in a sick

sort of way, I've come to discern. (Dad, I'll always love you. I guess

I can never agree with you.)

In my personal opinion, Limbaugh's comments regarding J. Fox

are reprehensible, irredeemable, reptilian, and just plain suck.

Obviously, my dad, and others, disagree. Cool -- the US of A, it's

still a notional democracy.

It certainly makes no difference to the debate that my mother's

parkinsonism, with or without medications, has negated her faintest

ability to perform any meaningful ADLs for the past *five* years,

needless to say. Surely, this is merely a crafty " Democrat " ploy.

I'm not a dem, I'm not a rep. I'm a free-thinking, rational human being.

Sorry to haul this family scrap into the group...even though I

personally didn't.

Best wishes to all, and much, much love to all my old friends in LBDC,

and, much love to those who've come in after my greatest time of need,

Deborah

>

> J Fox is just another Hollywood celebrity trying to use any

possible means to get another Liberal Democrat in office. Putting his

condition on display, in it's worse possible form, to pursue a

political goal, under the guise of concern about a narrowly specific

form of medical research, was disingenuous and deserves critical comment.

>

> robert

>

>

[Guest guest]

There wouldn't have been much of an effect if he gone

before them in a " normal " state. They needed to know

what the effects of the disease are.

--- Margee wrote:

> It is important to note that J. Fox admitted

> to NOT taking his medications when he testified

> before congress so his symptoms would be more

> prominent.

>

> Margee

>

>

> ---- Janet Colello wrote:

>

> =============

> Count me in on that too Donna K. and .

> J. Fox has an agenda

> and though it is understandable he would like a

> cure, as well as the rest of us that have had to

> deal with Parkinsons in any form. I too believe his

> motives were questionable. I do not doubt that he

> has days like he displayed, I have seen worse and

> think that Rush's remark about faking it was

> uncalled for. I think both Rush's and 's

> actions were both in poor taste, as most of the

> political advertisements and hype are these days.

> Jan

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Jan,

I've changed computers and don't have IM set up on this one yet.

Margee

---- Janet Colello wrote:

=============

Margee, are you there? Go to IM .......Jan

Margee wrote: It is important to note that J. Fox

admitted to NOT taking his medications when he testified before congress so his

symptoms would be more prominent.

Margee

---- Janet Colello wrote:

=============

Count me in on that too Donna K. and . J. Fox has an agenda

and though it is understandable he would like a cure, as well as the rest of us

that have had to deal with Parkinsons in any form. I too believe his motives

were questionable. I do not doubt that he has days like he displayed, I have

seen worse and think that Rush's remark about faking it was uncalled for. I

think both Rush's and 's actions were both in poor taste, as most of the

political advertisements and hype are these days. Jan

Welcome to LBDcaregivers.