http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspxFrom NBC's Mark MurrayNBC News confirms, per a source close to the senator, that Sen. Bill Frist will announce today that he will not run for president. The Hotline reports that Frist will hold a press conference in his home state of Tennessee.en-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16204Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:16:13 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16204Mark-Westlake Village, CAto paraphrase the religious right, "Thank God!!"http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16206Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:28:49 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16206scott, winona mnGeez Bill, why didn't you do something to help "those in poverty, in famine, and in civil war" while you were in office? At a minimum, why didn't you help those in poverty in our country? Enjoy your over-the-top congressional pension while helping those poverty sticken, famished, civil war vicitims you care so much about. By the way, what does your God say about those issues?http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16210Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:42:07 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16210Russell, Silver Spring, MDNow he can travel the world trying to raise the brain dead. It would have been fun to see him with Katherine Harris as a running mate.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16220Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:42:54 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16220I'm just sayin'Jeez, Russell, Terri Shivo, maybe, but Katherine Harris? That albatros? Forget it. Me thinks someone hears the pitter-patter little cat feet of the SEC. "Blind" trust? Don't bother Bill with that PC nonsense. Corruption, HO!http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16224Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:12:23 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16224Say What?Frist in his written statement says he's stepping down "to refocus my creative energies on innovative solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges Americans face", isn't this what senators are elected to do in the first place? If he couldn't do this as an elected official good luck in private life. Good Riddance.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16234Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:06:06 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16234chanbo Seattle WAHe really shouldn't need to travel to far away countries to do medical missionary work, his ability to perform remote diagnoses should serve him well in this capacity.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16238Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:27:35 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16238Steve Turner Cedar Falls IowaWell, the first insurmountable challenge Americans face is Dubya. Can Frist take him along when he goes to Darfur? And about helping those in a 'civil war', is he using the White House Definition or the NBC Definition? His backing of 'Stay the Course' in Iraq might also bring into question his definition of the term, 'healer'. Oh well, one less politician is better than none. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16244Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:51:50 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16244Nancy B. McCarthy, Columbia, South CarolinaHe can start his sabbatical in Iraq now that it's in civil war. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16250Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:31:56 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16250Olivia Elizabeth Burdon, Peoria, Ill.How about starting his sabbatical in New Orleans? There's a serious shortage of doctors and nurses there and only 2 functioning hospitals out of what had been 11 before the storm....http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16264Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:50:21 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16264Enough OfcreepsYou sick,leftist posters above are either pathologically deranged or insanely jealous...perhaps both. What a morbid bunch of creeps! Wonder if any one of you has ever done anything for humanity either in national military service, Vista, the Peace Corps, personal voluntarism, or in any other venue? Your snide commentary reveals a lack of self-worth, a selfish demeanor, and a closed mind. Frist is doing exactly what he long ago said he would do, and that is ten to the twenty-third power greater than the summation of you sorry losers. Seek therapy and heal yourselves.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16268Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:16:40 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16268Robert Catalano, Salem, ORI'm just wondering if the report on his stock dealings is just around the corner. http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16376Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:07:12 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16376Rick, Winston Salem, NCBill Frist...video neurosurgeon...frist will be able to cure aids and hunger from his computer terminal...after all, he healed Terri Schiavo via the internet just 18 months ago...http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#16457Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:24:50 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:16457Steve Turner Cedar Falls IowaHey Everybody! We've got a NEW right wing projector! Remember now 'Enough', we're laughing AT you and not WITH you. We know well enough, that all of our lives and hopes and dreams and accoplishments, aren't worth a seconds' worth of evaporation from His Emminence Frist's smallest little toe. But we go on, in our humble way, to poke him in the eye, with our semi-pointed words. That is what we do. You've used up a lot of insanity, so next time, you've got to come up with another line of projection. We don't laugh at re-runs.http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/11/29/16187.aspx#345629Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:11:46 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:345629AnonymousWe\'re ever so thrilled that you\'ve visited our page dealing with  travel advice.