Saxby Chambliss has prostate cancer

[RummyTheDummy]

Just heard it on CNN. Aint Karma a bitch.

(On edit for the Chambliss apologists: I hope he makes a full recovery. We can all hope it will change him in a positive way.)

[underpants]

1. So he IS officially full of s**t

I thought so.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. No Pity:

:nopity:

Maybe Charlie Daniels will be next?

:puke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Sorry he's ill with a life threatening illness

Perhaps it will transform him...and make him realize how very dirty it was to mock a disabled veteran for his own personal gain. Isn't it Christians who believe the Lord works in mysterious ways?

[West Coast Democrat]

8. My thoughts exactly!

but I'm sure nothing will make this man any less shameless.

[ulysses]

11. don't bet on it.

Molly Ivins pointed out a while back that having had cancer doesn't ennoble a person, and she's right.

[OBrien]

4. Does the " bad karma" go for Kerry, too?

grow up

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[RummyTheDummy]

20. Sorry about your husband

I'm sure he's a nice person, but I don't see what that has to do with this situation.

[Forkboy]

21. Having cancer doesn't make anyone good or bad

Chambliss is a prick regardless.Having cancer doesn't change that.

[ulysses]

26. right.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Okay, time to confess

If you saw on CNN.com the headline: "Georgia Senator has prostate cancer", did you secretly say to yourself, "Wow, I hope it was Zell!". I know I did!

[RummyTheDummy]

6. Zell has/had prostate cancer

Someone posted that here recently, citing it as the reason he has become so emibttered the last few years.

[FighttheFuture]

18. Once again proving, when you can't express yourself sexually...

you turn into a Republican, or the closest thing to it, in Zell's case.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

27. So anyone who's had prostate cancer...

...or erectile dysfunction is in danger of going to the dark side? :eyes:

[RummyTheDummy]

30. Well that would depend, wouldn't it?

Depending on which side you believe is dark.

[napi21]

7. No, I really didn't. I detest Zell, and I live in N. Ga.

But I really can't wish illness on anybody, that's just wrong. As to Saxby, I dislike him ALMOST as much as I detest Zell. I do hope he has to quit the Senate to take care of his health! But I don't wish him anything that bad as death.

[RummyTheDummy]

9. You're right , we shouldn't wish it on aynone

That in itself is bad karma. It is however interesting to note the karma involved in this particular case, almost amusing.

[arcos]

33. I know!!!

it happened to me too :spank:

[jobycom]

10. Truly sad. Remember Lee Atwater?

As he was dying, he realized what he had done, and apologized for it. Perhaps Chambliss will gain a more human perspective if he faces his own mortality.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

12. Link to LBN thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x671902

(And I don't believe this has anything to do with karma. If karma was a valid concept, Cleland wouldn't have lost three of his limbs fighting for his country.)

[RummyTheDummy]

14. Sometimes bad things happen to good people

And that's the case with Max.

[chimpy the poopthrower]

24. And sometimes bad things happen to bad people.

And sometimes good things happen to good people.
And sometimes good things happen to bad people.

I just don't see any point it looking at these things as some sort of divine or cosmic plan. Beyond what we can know from science, no one can know why things happen. It may be annoying to hear cliches like "Only the good die young," or "So-and-so survived because it was a miracle," but at least it's trying to put a positive spin on events. The "karma is a bitch" idea is offensive because it suggests that if something bad happens to a person, another person can know that it happened because of that person's sins or evil deeds. I thought we had progressed beyond that type of thinking a few centuries ago.

[elperromagico]

15. Probably stole it from Max Cleland. n/t

[Forkboy]

16. awwwwwww

:nopity:

[Padraig18]

19. What an awful, crass and tasteless thing to say!

No one deserves to have cancer! You should be ashamed of yourself for saying that!

:grr:

[RummyTheDummy]

22. And nowhere did I say he deserved it.

I merely noted the irony in the situation.

[Padraig18]

25. 'Karma' implies pay back.

:eyes:

[RummyTheDummy]

28. You may read into it what you want

But at the end of the day, that's all it is.

[Padraig18]

32. I didn't have to 'read anything into it'

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are excellent that it's a duck.

:eyes:

[Joanne98]

23. GOOD. I hope he DIES..........

And goes to Hell for stealing Max's senate seat. Bastard.

[WilliamPitt]

31. What an incredibly fucked up thing to say

I love when the golden side of my fellow 'liberals' comes shining through in situations like this.

Fucking :puke:

[Dob Bole]

34. Agreed

You're a sick bastard, and that's about all there is to it.

[ulysses]

29. I'm in the habit of not wishing cancer on anyone.

I've got my own reasons for that. I truly hope that our junior Senator, scum-sucking bottom-feeder that he is, makes a full recovery in time to be defeated in four years...