DISQUS

Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago

George Bush and the K-Street Lobbyists have made America the laughing stock of the world:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-euromood2...

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

Senator McCain enjoys the government health care he keeps attacking. He has coverage through the Veterans Administration, which is government run, socialized medicine. He’s covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefit System, which is government paid for, regulated private insurance. And as a senior citizen, Senator McCain is eligible for Medicare which is government health insurance. All these allow McCain to “see [his] doctor fairly frequently” as he told reporters in March.

Obama needs to pound McCain on this over and over. McCain is well insured and he could care less about anyone else.

Another thing Obama needs to get out there is that McCain wants to privatize Social Security; letting the stock brokers handle it. This should really scare all the senior citizens out there along with the fact that McCain is enjoying such great insurance coverage at taxpayer expense. Too many senior citizens favor McCain because he is one of them! He is NOT one of them. The average senior citizen is a whole lot smarter than McCain.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Don't forget, even better, he also could have Cindy's corporate health care plan. But he doesn't bother with all that bullshit form-filling and bureaucratic gatekeeping. No, McCain can go into any hospital, passing the wallet biopsy with ease by paying cash $ on the barrelhead. And sail right into the doctor's office or operating theater.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

My husband is retired from the military. My father was retired from the military and both were told when reenlisting that the benefits we get would be free health care for the rest of our lives and that was one of the reasons we stayed in. Am glad we did. Now we have to pay for medical care and its not free any longer. Now we have to travel to visit a civilian dr. that takes tricare insurance over an hr away. Military hospital care isn't that great. The VA hospital isn't either. People have to wait so long for an appointment and wait some time to see the doctor. But you bet your bottom dollar that McCain is doing very well. If he is retired from the service and wounded which he was he gets 100% of his retirement pay. He ain't hurting.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

If Obama and Biden can't make hay out of this one for the next 45 days.... This should be the feature of a DAILY 30-sec ad. Repeated, Goebbels-like, until even the stupidest, most racist voter "gets" it.

dad · 1 year ago

you're worth the gamble.

McCainUnable · 1 year ago

"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

In that one sentence, McCain is:
1. Advocating possibly the worst health care idea ever;
2. Asserting that deregulating the banks has proven to be a smart policy; and
3. Claiming at least partial authorship of that policy ("...as we have done over the last decade...")

McCainUnable.blogspot.com

BorninUSA · 1 year ago

OT Pat Buchanan is on MSNBC now telling what McCain and Obama need to do to win!! What they need to do in the upcoming debate. Did know-it-all Buchanan win a campaign that I forgot about??

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

I'm surprised NBC doesn't put cameras in the mens restroom and cafeteria so we can access Pat whenever he's on the GE clock for talking points fresh from the fax printer.

katiec · 1 year ago

With the destroying of America by the republicans, do not know
how any plan to help middle class America will be able to
be enacted.
Not only are our politics a sham, the world is laughing hysterically
about Mccain/palin politics.
Mccain has thrown all creditbility out the door.

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

Just get ready for the "cut/privatize social security", reduce YOUR RIGHTS push, etc. all in the name of "you-are-gonna -pay-for-it, shut-your-mouth fascism.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

OT

Finally, someone has addressed the issue of why Obama is not further ahead of McCain. It is the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about====race..

http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-politi...

JohnInTexas · 1 year ago

He's actually as much white as he is black but our backwoods hillbilly mentality in most of this country just ignores that part, all they think is BLACK MAN....it's sad things are still this way after all these years.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

I still say that way back when the reason Bill Clinton was in a snit is because, being the ultimate politician, he realized there may be a chance for Obama to lose. I mean 3 out of 10 non voters is a large chunk of the party.

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

For real. I do phone banking work in Macomb County Michigan and I've actually had people tell me, "I'm afraid to vote for Obama because he will bring everybody over from Africa". To which I reply, "But George Bush didn't let all the patients out of the mental hospitals". Not really. I have said, "I really think it is the other guy you have to worry about hurting you more, but hey, good luck with that! and hung up.

aquarius2 · 1 year ago

Just realized this is an AP story by Ron Fournier, yeah that Ron Fournier. I want to say the article is eye opening but considering who wrote it puts a new light on things, like is it honest or were facts cherry picked.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

Well win or lose, Obama will have moved us forward. If he wins, people will see that color is irrelevant, particularly if he does a good job. If he loses, people will wish they had voted for Obama after they see the mess McCain makes of our government (actually Bush has left us a pretty good mess, too). Also, after Hillary and Obama, race and gender will matter a little less. Best of all so many of our children could care less and don't see that race is at all a factor in voting. There'll always be a few hate-mongers, they don't ever leave us. Maybe someday someone will develop a cure for them.

devlzadvocate · 1 year ago

Hmmm, my last comment evaporated????

Now watch the push from republickans for cuts/privatization of Social Security and reduction of YOUR RIGHTS, etc. in the name of you-are-paying-for-it, shut-your-mouth facism.

Check out new five thirty eight poll numbers:http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

djcelts · 1 year ago

"as we have done over the last decade in banking"

Ummm, I thought he didn't have anything to do with this? Flip/flop much?

phildutra · 1 year ago

That is what this quote is about. Tying the deregulation of the banking industry to McCain. Reinforce that he is a liar when he claims to want more oversight. This shouldn't be about the healthcare debate. This is about what the electorate is focused on (for good reason). Blame McCain and the Republicans for deregulating the financial world.

threeaces · 1 year ago

Just another great political ad that writes itself.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

Everybody needs to forward/email this to everyone they know.

This is FREE advertising for the Obama campaign.

What more could you want.

Send this to everyone.......

Just think of the million of dollars the Obama campaign can save by having us spread the word.

threeaces · 1 year ago

Just another great political ad that writes itself.

MNUSA · 1 year ago

McCain's plan shows just how out of touch he is. Does he honestly think people working at minimum wage jobs can afford health insurance because he'll give them a $5,000 credit off their income taxes? A couple earning minimum wage gross about $27,000. If they have children, they have day care expenses. Add to that a roof over their head, transportation, food, clothing and I'm betting there's nothing left over. So even if they could get health insurance for $1,000 per month for a family policy what on earth are they supposed to use to pay for it? There are solutions: (1) living wages; (2) affordable day care; and (3) universal health care. Those are all pro-life, pro-family policies.

Indigo · 1 year ago

In many ways, our health care system already is much like the banking system.

SouthernYankee · 1 year ago

I know the first thing am going to do monday morning is to call Peliso office and let them know I hope they won't fly with that comment. This is the time for another new deal to help the american people. They must push for the american people. Everyone call your representatives and let them know how you feel. This is so important now.