The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Edwards for Attorney General in Obama adminstration!

Edwards for Attorney General in Obama adminstration!

I agree with the campaign of Barrack Obama that this election is about change. However, the essence of this change has to be a dislodging of our government from the clutches of the wealthy, corporate interests. Until this is done, there will never be the dramatic and substantive change that this country so desperately needs.

Only Edwards has had the courage to take on these special interests head on. And he follows that up with the courage to not take their money. If you take their money, you'll be beholding to them in some way, no matter how much a politician will say such money does not influence them.

Edwards' courageous stand against these corporate special interests is one reason why he hasn't gotten the attention his message deserves from the main stream media. Hopefully, voters will be diligent enough to pick up and understand this message and support it.

robinandlynda- I really hope one of your loved ones ends up in the same situation, then you can let us know how you would be willing to spend on a "Hail-Mary operation."

Reference the comment: Posted by: robinandlynda | January 7, 2008 12:42 AM

Nice try, Sherlock. You obviously have ulterior motives in your dismissal of Edwards meeting with the bereaved family member(s) of Nataline Sarkisyan.

Shame on your lack of medical knowledge & your obvious value of your own selfish political agenda VS the surgery that was stalled long enough for the result to be fatal.

I guess we know what camp you're sitting in right about now...

Nataline Sarkisyan was no Terri Shiavo.

And, with all-due-respect to the memories of both women, the two cases have as much in common as clean water and nuclear-waste.

They are simply, NOT ALIKE.

Terri Shiavo suffered cardiac arrest at home and oxygen was cut off to her brain for several minutes.

She suffered extensive brain damage when her heart stopped briefly due to a potassium deficiency, and from that moment-on, remained in a persistent vegetative state.

She remained on life-support systems for over 12 years.

Nataline Sarkisyan, was a 17 year old high school student who had Leukemia. She received a bone-morrow transplant from her brother near Thanksgiving, and that ruined her liver.

To compare Terri's situation with that of Nataline's are, simply, a lack of knowing the facts.

The only thing the two cases ever had in common was the fact that both women experienced "persistent vegetative state."

There are many who recover from a "persistent vegetative state." Terri had no chance to recover. Nataline did.

A UCLA doctor said the "facts about a liver transplant, for a person Nataline's age, and in her present condition (Dec.11), had a 65% chance of survival for the first six months."

I've noticed in regards to transplants the survival rate increases in percentages after a six-month period.

My intent on writing this is not to focus on the "two cases," but, in order to shed good light on the Edwards connection to this story it was necessary to debunk the previous comment posted on January 7, 2008, 12:42am.

The same day I read of Cigna Insurance and Nataline, I had just earlier listen to Edwards talk about health care, corporation control, and the America people.

Sadly, as it is, John Edwards, in Iowa, had spoke about the issue, at the same time Cigna was denying Nataline the right to live, because of health care coverage.

I was very disappointed to hear John Edwards revert to his trial-lawyering days
looking again for the opportunity to litigate.

The tragedy of this case was that the poor girl was in such bad health that there was no chance that this Hail-Mary operation, at huge cost to someone, would have a positive outcome.

The major disadvantage to a single-payer system is that cases like these have to be subject to the necessary restraints of rationing, without providing the opportunity for John and his lawyer friends to sue the Government.

This is Terry Shiavo all over again. Lets leave these sad cases to the grieving family, and not drag them into politics.
Shame on you John...but then maybe its something in you that you can't resist.