Chris Collins: 'People Now Don't Die' of Cancer...Another GOP Candidate Has No Clue

There is not a requirement to have brains to run for any office. Actually, now that I think about it, there may be a requirement to be stoooopid!

Obama thinks there is 57 states.

And Mitt Romney thinks that blowing a five trillion dollar hole in the deficit so that he can give himself and his rich buddies ANOTHER tax cut is a good idea.

And there are SFB's who agree with him. None of that has to do with another sorry excuse for a human being from teabag nation spreading the lies that people don't die of prostate or breast cancer anymore.

Your point is?

WHAT an absolute crock!

You "forgot" (conveniently) this part of what he said: “As the brother of a breast cancer survivor, I am grateful for the medical advances that saved my sister’s life, which would not have been possible a generation ago.”

In other words, it is no different than saying "people dont die of syphilis", when it is incredibly apparant, that he meant, In this day and age.

To take his words SO far out of context, and isolate the few that serve your purpose, is disgusting.


Shameful.

But people do die EVERY day of breast and prostate cancer....not so much syphilis.

This is what happens when you think the Huffington Post is a news source.

They are nothing more than the "Star", and "National Enquirer" of politics.

I almsot expect them to come out any day with a post that some republican is actually a 4 headed calf, and the result of a mating between a martian and bigfoot, but had plastic surgery to hide it, with Jimmy Hoffa as the surgeon.

His point was, not like they used to.

How can you possibly not understand that!

Today, we have "survivors" - many of them.

To make it sound like he is saying it never happens, is so incredibly deceitful, that it boggles my mind.

Except that is not what he said. The fact that he uttered the words people now don't die is just wrong. He could have found another way to say what you have decided he meant. Even following it up with like they used to would not have made the statement any better. There are people that survived breast cancer 30 years ago and others that will die two weeks after diagnosis. We don't have a cure. People still die.

And he is wrong about breast cancer not being survivable a generation ago. I know of a woman personally who has been receiving chemo for over 30 years. Is it the best answer? No but she is still here and is a positive amazing woman. Until there is a cure...a real cure people will die and saying they don't is insensitive.

I don't know anything about this guy, and I really couldn't care less. You wouldn't care either if he hadn't said this.

Of course, it's a great big story on the Web now. Even this left-wing news show host acknowledges that he probably meant not as many die now as did before and, of course, I don't think there are very many people in this country who don't at least know of someone who has died of either type of cancer. So for you or anyone to take that so literally, is what is obtuse.

This is what Pakman said when he acknowledged what Collins' intention was: "If that's what he meant, he should just be better with English." And that is really the problem. He didn't word it exactly as he meant to.

Let's pretend that you're running for office and someone reads this sentence of yours. "Of course as word spread about Collins' statement he began to back peddle hard and fast."

So are you accusing him of selling something in a back room someplace or something like that? Reading that the way you wrote it, that certainly does not mean that he was backpedaling. You used a completely different word with a different meaning. So you can use a different word with a different meaning to mean what you want it to mean even though it doesn't mean what you meant it to say, but if a right-wing politician who's against Obamacare makes a statement on the fly that's not worded just so, this is what you have to say: "Hell if they are all as stupid as Chris Collins the country shouldn't be listening to them at all." Well, aren't you special to "be" so smart without having to be so smart?

Really since I am not planning on running for office I am not going to freak out over an obvious typo. I love how I became a left-leaning liberal because I think this republican candidate is an idiot. Come on now. If Obama said the same thing I am pretty sure many people's panties would be in a wad. The man should really watch what he says. Even if he didn't mean it the way he said it he should have immediately corrected himself because he sounds like an idiot.

Oh, I forget about that rule all the time; I'm so sorry. When the left uses homophones incorrectly, they're typos. It must be the hour. I hope you can forgive me just this once.

Well I have just read what he said and from where I am sitting it is clear in my mind that what he meant was that people in this day and age have a better survival rate from cancer than they did a few years ago because of medical advancement of drugs. And anyone who cant see what he meant is somewhat deluded. I am sorry but sometimes when speaking people come out with a quip that is a slip of the tongue and that's all this man has done in this instance, and your reaction to this slip of the tongue is somewhat over the top, and not for the life of me can I see why it should be so insensitive for him to have made this slip.

Many people who have had cancer will survive just like the lady you have mentioned, it just depends how quick it was diagnosed and how quick your body reacts to the treatment and many more will die from this deadly disease just like a good friend of mine who thought she was getting better from Bowel Cancer only for it to come back with a vengeance just six weeks after being given the all clear three weeks later we were at her graveside.

No one in their right mind would think that cancer has been cured and say so. So its obvious to a blind man on a dark night wearing shades that all it was, was a slip of the tongue.

Graham, I feel foolish just commenting on such an inane accusation. If this SkyWriter hadn't made her own mistake in her expression, I wouldn't have bothered, but it was a good analogy.

However, you see that when they err, they don't err; they excuse their errors away. It was an "obvious typo," a mere typo the incorrect usage of a word becomes, but when someone says something that really is obviously not to be taken literally, he's some kind of moron.

You'll see them say that they may disagree, but they don't take it to a personal level. When you show them with their own words that they have taken it very deeply to a personal level, it just wasn't their best effort in those cases--always an excuse.

Another of them will say it's your "duty" to correct people when they say things that are "stupid." Of course, that's only when they decide it's stupid, and only for them to do. Don't you ever point out their errors because they don't make mistakes. There's an excuse for anything they do that makes them less than perfect. The excuses are even more asinine than the original mistakes, but why not go all the way? They can always destroy the evidence if it gets a little too incriminating, and they can't think of any more excuses. hahahaha You've gotta love 'em.

They did something else recently in the news where they took the words right of context to explain why some politician was kicked out of a meeting and totally misrerpresented the reason.

Just remember that they never lie either; they only misspeak.

Maybe they're hanging on to a wish that their BS is going to turn into gold.

Hey Sue it must be really nice never to make mistakes or even tell a few Porky pies in life. And better still never to be stupid, I wonder what school they all went to to learn how to be this way:-)

hahahaha

Yeah, it makes you wonder what stairway they're going to tumble down next, finding themselves landed on their heads once again. hahahahaha

I will accept Mr. Collins statement that he was taken out of context and I will also agree that many forms of cancer are no longer an absolute death warrant. What I will not accept and certainly not agree with, is the fact that Mr. Collins chose to minimize the diseases continued potential to kill it's victims. Purposely doing so, within his campaign speech, as a means by which to project his political ideology as being against the PPACA. A dishonorable act of deliberate disregard for the actual danger that the disease poses. IMO, it was an unethical act of showmanship by a less than moral person.

Even though medical science has made many advancements in dealing with all forms of cancer, there is yet no guarantee that any form of cancer, once diagnosed, can be controlled, much less cured. Many people here in America who are diagnosed with even well known and treatable forms of cancer, suffer untold physical pain as well as mental anxiety. Mortuaries are called upon everyday to prepare the bodies for burial of those who have died from the disease.

Therefore, to have Mr. Collins make light of the disease in a campaign speech, is not only unacceptable, it is unethical in principle. For, Mr. Collins, a man who is seeking a political seat in government to use such amoral tatics to garner support for his campaign is totally unjustifiable.