Well-it look’s like John McCain will be the Republican nominee for Prez. I’ll bet that he names Romney as his VP. Romney will pull in the extreme Right. It’s a perfect match!
Soooo—is it Hillary or Obama?? History is about to be made ladies and gentleman. Will they team up when one of them drops out? It’s funny how most of the media refer to Obama by his last name and Hillary by her first. Can she beat McCain?–I hope so! Can he beat McCain?–I hope so!
Change is good. Change is good! Change IS GOOD!! Either way this election goes (and I hope it goes Democratic) will be better then the retard we have in office now.
Yea–I SAID IT!!!!
“Will be better than the retard we have in office now.”
No. Obama or McCain will be better than the retard we have in office now. She will be a return to standard Clintonian politics; we saw what she was capable of when she was put in charge of her universal health care nightmare, and she’s done nothing outstanding in the Senate.
Do I have a favored between McCain or Obama? Nope. McCain is a Conservative Democrat and Obama is as far left as she is, but doesn’t make me feel all soul-burney.
Oh–to go back to the days of Clintonian politics.
You mean all the money that she got for NY makes her a do nothing Senator? I think that is one of the things they are supposed to do.
The only reason her health care proposals failed was because NO ONE in the government gave her a chance. Right away, Congress started hassling her because she was not an elected official They felt that she should have kept her place as the president’s wife. I hope she becomes Prez and gives the nation universal health care–The way it should be!
Obama has LESS experience then anyone running, but I would much rather have him Prez then McCain!
I didn’t say did nothing, I said nothing outstanding. She’s followed the herd, hasn’t stood out. Has she done good things, sure, but nothing that says “I’m presidential.”
The way it should be? Based on what, the belief that we need to be taxed more to wait for months for non-emergency service? I’ve been there, lived in that. Universal health care will continue to fail until we as a country embrace socialism on a whole and not piecemeal it like we have been for the past 80-odd years. It would take an economic crash of Great Depression proportions for the nation to take that step.
Obama certainly has less experience, but he isn’t nearly as polarizing as she is; though McCain certainly seems to have polarized the right of late.
(Sweet merciful crap, a left-guy and a right-guy talking civilly about politics! Quick, are we in a Coke commercial? I get to be Bill Frist, he still has some hair left!
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McCain’s not an improvement; you’re forgetting that despite his supposed moving towards the center and his campaign speeches, his actions and his words outside is to say he embraces every one of Dubya’s policies. He has said that instead of being in Iraq for 50 years, he will make it 100. He has voted far right on everything to do with troops, the economy, healthcare and more.
Don’t forget that everyone on the right and involved with the war is saying a draft is now inevitable. Don’t forget that unlike the last Presidential election, no one is promising not to have the draft; not to mention, the age has now expanded to 42, maybe even 45, in order to get the number of bodies they say they need for the army in Iraq. (A freeze has been put on Afghanistan; no more troops will be sent to fight Bin Laden and his people, even though we only have 20% of our efforts there now.) That means, in your family, Justin and Eddie will go, and in mine, Rob and Martin. So will Wandering Minstrel up above and Lady Gypsy’s brother. But it doesn’t stop there; Petreus and Bush’s war czar first said the war would take another 10 years; then it was upped to 20. That means not only do our nephews go, but the young ones now will go before the war is done. The debt that we already have that will take 9 generations to pay off, will more than triple by the end.
That doesn’t even account for McCain’s, Bush’s, and the others jumping off the handle over the fudged films about the Iran speed boats.
They cry Support the Troops! To them, that means cutting veteran benefits, voting down the home leave bill, plus ignoring the highest rates of desertion and military suicides that this country has seen in decades.
20 more years of war, and 100 years of military occupation of a country that we invaded, something America said it would never do. That’s what McCain stands for.
And Obama? He shouts “I’m for change!”, but has no details or plans. He’s smart; he knows Americans are about soundbites, so he gives it to them. But he lost the big delegate states and our own because, as people said leaving the polls, in the end, he’s just a soundbite and no depth. George W. Bush was a soundbite. McCain is a soundbite. We need more than that and someone who wrongly played the race card the second he thought it would help him.
>>Based on what, the belief that we need to be taxed more to wait for months for non-emergency service?<<
We have democratic countries that have universal healthcare without tons of taxes and who don’t wait even a couple of days for non-emergency service. They don’t have socialism; they have a very strong middle class, the people who were destroyed in the US in the 80s. Americans living in those countries are reporting the facts on how fantastic it works. No long waits, doctors making good livings, and patients receiving very good care.
On the other hand: I got a friend suffering from sever seizures, but her company won’t provide healthcare. So despite the fact she can’t afford it, she had to get it on her own. But the healthcare co. told her she couldn’t see any doctors for 90 days or they wouldn’t pay, saying it was a pre-existing condition. She couldn’t even go to the ER because she would lose her benefits. After the 90 day wait, she started getting tests, but her healthcare said, “OH! You wanted to be covered for that too? We forgot to mention….” and they changed her coverage, slapping another 90 day wait on her. 180 days to get care, at crippling insurance prices; she’s lost her apartment, her car, plus more to pay the insurance, and her full time shift at work because her seizures are growing, and she can’t do more than 3 hours a day.
Now, across the ocean, I have another friend. She got ill; her universal healthcare in her non-socialist country had her into the doctor in the same day plus her medications in her hand. And she asked me why, in the “best country on the planet”, as we Americans bill ourselves, was our friend slowly being destroyed having to wait SIX MONTHS just to get tests let alone see a doctor and get help.
So I point out the statements like above: we fear paying some more money to help out those in need. We need to spend billions on war, not in helping each other out.
“And Obama? He shouts “I’m for change!”, but has no details or plans.”
Sorry, I guess I missed the part where Hillary has a plan other than soundbytes. Sorry, I guess I missed the part where she supported the same war Bush did. What? I didn’t miss that?
Now, to cut it off at the quick: I’m not an Iragi War supporter, and I think the economy since pre-Carter has been screwed up (trickle-down economics and NAFTA go hand in hand). Bush and Reagan don’t have the monopoly on borking the economy, Clinton and Carter are helping to carry the banner at the front of the parade, too.
Socialism is the transferring of the ownership and control of the means of production from private ownership to the government (nominally the government). Universal health care is, by definition, socialism. Governmental policies, per FDR, brought about during the Depression were NEVER supposed to be permanent entitlements. Yet, presidency after presidency, right and left, have added to that system of entitlements. What’s the biggest portion of the budget after the war? Entitlement programs.
Want to fix the health care system? Vote your people and my people out of office, as both sides are under health care PACS.
I don’t fear paying more money to help those in need. I fear paying more money to established politicians like the Clintons, the Kennedys, the Bushes, that clearly have no clue how to spend my tax money. McCain isn’t an improvement? Mayhaps not, but Hillary sure isn’t, either.