Chambliss tells his staff he has prostate cancer (GA)

[RamblingRose]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, congressional aides said late Wednesday.

Chambliss, 60, broke the news to his staff Wednesday afternoon, but said nothing about it publicly. Chambliss' aides did not return repeated phone calls late Wednesday. Chambliss' office in Washington would neither confirm nor deny the report to The Associated Press, but indicated that an announcement might be made on Thursday.


But other members of the Georgia delegation got word shortly after Chambliss told his staff.

In an interview with WSB-TV, U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, who is a physician, said Chambliss could be expected to recover from the disease.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0704/08chambliss.html
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[The Zanti Regent]

1. Karma is a ...

Couldn't happen to a more deserving dog turd!

[benburch]

14. What a horrible thing to say about ANYBODY.

Just posting here as a DU citizen and not as a Mod - you should be ashamed of yourself for saying such a thing about anybody. Yep, he's a turd. But he's also a fellow human being, and you need to think about that.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

19. I've thought about it...briefly. VERY briefly....

If he wanted to be treated like a human being, he should have acted like one.

[saigon68]

28. After watching Saxby do his Hatchet job on MAX CLELAND

Its hard to feel sorry for Chambliss. On the other hand we are all going to be old and die some day. I'm sure Cleland takes no pleasure at Saxby suffering from cancer.

Cleland allowed Ralph Reed and his thugs to confuse the voters. And that's why Max lost the election. Saxby is more of a thug than anything else.

Maybe the big guy is showing him the road to some humility--- Remember Chuck Colson???

[tom_paine]

26. Ben, I am quite finished with think of people as humans who don't think me

human.

FINISHED!

People can only take so much, Ben.

You might not have reached your limit. I have.

You can only be hated and thought of as not a Real American or not a Real Human Being for ONLY SO LONG before you respond in kind.

Fuck that cowardly lying draft dodger, Saxby Chambiss.

I'd like to think that God put that cancer right in his ass as a direct result of him defaming Max Cleleand.

Karma is a bitch, Ben, for all of us.

But don;t expect me to give Nazis, once we KNOW what they ARE, the same respect and belief in humanity that I give Real Human Beings, whether they agree or disagree with them.

Now watch these little Conservative Underground Cowardly (w)itches --you KNOW what I really mean-- go whine and weep and cry and wail about how the Evil DUers are dehumanizing them.

"What, little old US? Demonize our enemeies? Why, we WOULD NEVER say stuff like that about liberals. NEVER!"

Liars. Fucking Nazi Lying Cowardly Crybabies!

I can no longer accord Nazi Monsters the respect due Human Beings.

Even if they are "kinder and genlter" (for the moment) than their Spiritual Antecedents.

[shadu]

29. I'm gonna support The Zanti Regent on this one

(And I will say no more. After all... you are a Mod :)

[Pachamama]

34. Karma is coming back at him...its just being pointed out.....

I'd say the same thing and more if the Occupier of the White House got Cancer and FUCheney's bionic heart went out...

Sorry, but I don't think that there is anything in a free speech forum to be pointed out about people's karma coming back at them and calling them what they are....

I've seen far worse on the DU, and it never questioned by a MOD....

[chimpy the poopthrower]

45. Ben specifically said he was NOT speaking as a mod.

Sheesh.

[Democracy Died 2004]

39. Well thinking of that style is why

we have an imposter in the White House... now YOU think about that.

[RummyTheDummy]

43. In point of fact

Chambliss is not human and he is completely undeserving of any sympathy whatsoever.

[CatWoman]

16. YES!!! First thing that popped in my head

God don't like ugly.

[Isere]

20. I'm sure that's what they said in Freeperland

when John Kerry announced that he has prostate cancer.

What sort of "karma" was that?

[Pachamama]

35. Karma comes for lots of reasons...past lives actions, actions in this life

....could be maybe his killing people in Vietnam? Who knows? We are just pointing it out....

Karma is a funny thing....

[foo_bar]

50. is Kerry's cancer a symptom of karma or agent orange?

when was Chambliss in Vietnam?

[Parche]

31. Zanti

"Lans trinsini lans a lobe"


For what Chambliss did to Cleland

[Pachamama]

32. Karma is coming back at him...stay tuned....

...maybe this piece of Bu$h Sh*t will get Colon Cancer next....

[Justice]

2. Seems Odd That He would Not Reassure People He Will Be Okay After

Treatment. This quote from a doctor says Chambliss "C"ould be okay -- seems sort of odd. Maybe more progressed than most prostate cancers?

[swag]

3. Though I think he's a terrible Senator and probably an awful person

I feel bad for him and his family, and wish him the best.

[CookieD]

11. Agreed ............ n/t

n/t

[loathesomeshrub]

53. I love that picture! n/t

[mac56]

12. Me too.

He's my Senator, along with Zig Zag Zell.

Much as I abhor his politics, I hope for his successful recovery.

[Gyre]

15. No worries

You have to drive a stake throught their hearts to really kill them. I don't see where anybody's planning that, therefore Saxby's safe.

Gyre

[johnfunk]

4. God's wrath for smearing Max Cleland

Couldn't have happened to a sleazier politician.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Karma is truly a bitch n/t

[lil-petunia]

7. from the little i heard,

Chamblis has somethings to answer for.

can someone 'splaint to lil-petunia what "n/t" stands for?

[Gildor Inglorion]

9. "no text" ma'am....

just a headline; nothing follows.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

6. Oh c'mon... I don't believe in karma or in God's wrath

Was it karma or God's wrath that caused Cleland to lose three limbs? People get cancer and other illnesses because of medical causes. Let's not sound like Colonial-era Salem. I wouldn't have wished cancer on anyone, but I won't be shedding many tears for him either. But his worth as a human being has nothing to do with him getting cancer. The idea that it's a divine punishment is an insult to others who get cancer.

[OBrien]

13. thank you

I found these freeper type remarks disgusting. My wonderful husband had his cancerous prostate removed earlier this year...at 46. He didn't "deserve" it.

[wildeyed]

46. thank you, again

Cancer has nothing to do with your political views. Many worthy people get cancer, too. My Dad has prostrate cancer. It's just something that happens.

I am really angry at the RW in this country. Some days I hate them, some days I manage not to. Everyday I work to defeat them. I try not to hate. I try to remember that we are all humans, we are all afraid. Also, when the hate starts to take over my brain, it helps me to try to picture them as little babies. Hard to hate a baby.

That said, I was really gleeful when Ashcroft came down with, what was it, kidney stones? Really painful condition.

[Gildor Inglorion]

8. I know a sure cure! Somebody contact ol' sorry Saxby...

and tell him to stuff a Diebold voting machine up his fundament...after all, it elected the worthless SOB. }(

[iconoclastic cat]

10. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

That really sucks.

[colonel odis]

17. a lot of these posts show the difference in du-ers and freepers.

if a democrat in the senate were diagnosed with prostate cancer, they'd be rubbing it in gleefully like the little shitheels they are.

[hightime]

22. What posts are you not reading here?

There are plenty of shitheels here also.

Your terminology...not mine.

[colonel odis]

24. i was referring to the ones that took the high road and ignoring

the ones that sounded freeper-esque.

[hightime]

42. Selective viewing will always get the results you are looking for.

[colonel odis]

44. not selective viewing. just didn't see any reason to acknowledge

posts by people who act glad he's got cancer.

just as i don't see any reason now to have acknowledged yours.

[louis c]

18. THERE IS A GOD.............................................

I feel bad when ever some one is ill, even Reagan.

But as far as Saxby is concerned, if someone has to get cancer, and I had to choose the person, he's in the top ten.

Fuck him.

[indypaul]

21. From a prostate cancer survivor

(9 years now) I wish him the very best for a successful recovery.
As for his political his views, however, I wish to send him the
now famous message of Cheney to Senator Leahy.

[GoldenOldie]

25. From a Cancer Survivor

This is a very bad day for me to have any sympathy for this worthless piece of humanity. I have been blessed that I am a 16-year cancer survivor and just moments ago was notified that a very close friend who with myself has been an activist in Cancer causes and the Peace movement had just lost her fight. Last nights local news informed my daughter, a high school teacher, and myself that one of her favorite students had been killed in Iraq. This student graduated in 2000 and his life's ambition was to be a Marine and my daughter teased him about his choice, because he was always the peace maker. He adored her and he always stayed in contact with her and her fellow teachers, through e-mails, and when he was on leave. He died the day his wife (who was also a student of my daughter's) was to give birth to their first born. Because my daughter is a theatre arts teacher and plays an important personal role with her students, I was blessed in meeting this young man many times during the production of their shows or events. My daughter, who is now teaching in Europe and only home on summer break, understands the mess and feelings that this administration has caused throughout the World. Her exact words upon hearing about the death of one of her former students and friend is un-printable.
No today I feel little sympathy for this man who abetted this administration.

[Pachamama]

37. FUCheney Chambliss!

...and Gesundheit!

:)

[shanti]

23. my mama told me

if you can't say anything good about something/someone, don't say anything at all!

[Occulus]

27. ...and I followed that saying all my childhood and into adulthood

and all it ever got me was "doormat" tattooed across my forehead.

PEOPLE WILL *NOT* TREAT YOU THE WAY YOU WOULD TREAT THEM. Not yet; maybe not ever.

And that's the lesson I carry with me. I wouldn't ever tell that one to my kids, were I to have any....

[shanti]

48. lol

well, i didn't listen to my mama too well myself!:evilgrin:

[NNN0LHI]

49. It was a pretty dammed good post. And true too n/t

[Zerex71]

30. You reap what you sow.

Mike

[TahitiNut]

33. Unlike over 45 million people, he has health care completely paid.

Perhaps real justice would be served if he were uninsured and required to pay 2-3 times as much as the insured to receive care.

[hyphenate]

36. I personally don't care for the man's politics

But there are certain people who should be given the full dose of vengeance that can be summoned. However, one bright thing might come out of this: he might leave office, and force a special election to fill his position. If that happens, perhaps Max will have a better time with it.

I don't think all repukes are evil--just that their priorities are as screwed up as possible. But how can anyone relate to someone whose sole goal in life is to be the greediest mofo on the block? How can we relate to people who wish ill of 95% of the immigrants, both legal and illegal, in this country? How can we care about those who would step on our right to free speech? How can we even have respect for people who are so bitterly prejudiced as to wish every one who doesn't share their religious beliefs to die horribly or be converted? I can't think of these people most of the time without generalizing about the entire GOP party, but I do know that on individual levels, Repukes who are not extreme do have some qualities worth redeeming. As with any group, it's the extremists who take measures into their own hands and handicap the perception of the rest with their actions.

Having admitted that, I think Chambliss is nothing but a small increment of the entire problem with its beginnings in Washington, D.C., and a weasel to boot. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would not have run a smear campaign as he did, and certainly would have found another way to defeat Cleland on a more humane and objective basis. I can't wish "death" on him, but for some, perhaps Chambliss included, the only wake up call they will listen to is that which opens their eyes further.

[wkirby]

38. No special election

In Georgia, the Governor will appoint someone, as in the case of Barnes giving Zell Miller the job. Sadly, we now have a Republican governor.

-Will

[AngryAmish]

40. Suffer, bastard.

[moondust]

41. Wipe that smirk off my face!

[kodi]

47. sorry to hear of it. hopefully he will beat it.

i lost 2 uncles to it in the 60's. i wish it on no one.

[Blackaxe]

51. The responses on this thread turn my stomach.

He's still a human being. Pretty disgusting to see so many delighting at this man's moment of personal crisis.

[NNN0LHI]

52. You ever been compared to Osama bin Laden on your local TV station?

Try it sometime. Tell me how you feel afterwards.

Don

[FredScuttle]

54. Consider the "victim"

Look at it this way....Joe Torre and Robert DeNiro get prostate cancer, I feel bad even though I don't know either of them personally. I just admire their work and their character (even though Torre works for the hated Yankees).

Saxby Chambliss gets cancer? Good...better him than some kid or someone I know and care about.