Faith Healers Ain't Got Nothin' On the Dems

I've heard faith healers make some pretty wild claims from time to time, but they'd have a tough time keeping up with pronouncements of some Dem candidates:

With a month to go before primary voters head to the polls to choose Senate nominees, Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin kicked off yesterday a weeklong effort to highlight his congressional record and vision on health care by making the mother of all campaign promises - to cure cancer.

Cardin, a Democrat from Baltimore County, gathered with cancer survivors and doctors in Lutherville to detail his efforts to expand cancer screening and his plans to fight the disease.

"We are going to lick cancer by 2015," Cardin told a group of 15 people at the HopeWell Cancer Support Center on Falls Road.

Ooookay. Good luck with all that, but somehow I doubt if Cardin's election would have much impact on that process.

Of course, Cardin isn't the first Dem candidate to promise miraculous healings. You may remember that Sen. John Edwards promised that if John Kerry was elected president, people like paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve would rise up out of their wheelchairs and walk.