Defying Negativeland

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41°51' North; 87°41' West


"If you make political discourse sufficiently negative, more people will become cynical and stop paying attention. That leaves more space for special interests to pursue their agendas, and that's how we end up with drug companies making drug policy, energy companies making energy policy and multinationals making trade policy."
Barack Obama, May 2004.


Think Mr. Obama, the newly minted US Senator from Illinois, was overstating things a bit?

Think again.

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 - A day after Canadian officials suspended the use of a hyperactivity drug amid reports of deaths associated with its use, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa contended that United States health officials had asked the Canadian regulators not to do so."

Apparently, dead kids don't count for much in Negativeland, at least not when the best interests of Big Pharma are part of the equation.

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Update: For the record, Mr. Grassley is a Republican.

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