Doodles of Dreams

Who cares about Doodles?
How about a story about McCain’s direct connection to the right-wing terrorist group USCWF?

Wow Sarah Palin lying…again.
Its starting to become dog bites man at this point.

Obama needs to keep his day job

Hi,
I am not as angry or passionate as some of you guys are, but I I will say this:
Palin and McCain seem to stand for hatred and bigotry
and that is not the world I want my children to inherit.
We need to look towards the future for our economy and our children.

the doodle is telling in that palin and McCain are cartoon characters
fixin to fix things!
those mavericks!

Sarah, you can worry all you want about USCWF and Iran Contra, at least they weren’t terrorists bombing the US and telling kids to kill their parents.

Why won’t Barack Obama just answer questions about his associations in an honest manner?
If he were truly innocent, and had nothing to hide, he simply just state the truth and that would be the end of it. Instead, he has lied to us about his relation to Ayers and others.
Clearly there is something there. How bad it is I don’t know. But reguarly speaking with and conversing with (there are email and phone records) and kicking off your political career at the house of an unrepentant domestic terrorist isn’t a good thing.
This alone should have disqualified Obama.

Sarah Palins husband was anti-American secessionist, and why was she palling around with them?

I will take a “doodle of dreams”
Pitbull Palin Bites Obama on his Ayers
over
“I seek daily to imitate his faith” ~ Obama in a letter 5 Feb 2007
On Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s Father Figure

“A critic of Sarah Palin’s is suing to make sure any government-related e-mails Palin sent from private accounts get saved.
A former state worker filed the lawsuit against Palin in Anchorage Thursday. Palin’s gubernatorial spokeswoman says she can’t comment.”

wow jake — really awesome journalism here… now back to real issues please!
ps. palin is a talking head, and unqualified as most americans already know… hence, obamas lead in the polls

CrystalD: more like “junk yard dogs”.

“what leader emails any professional email to their spouse?
can anyone think of any job related emails that you would copy to your spouse”
People flipped when Hillary was appointed to lead the health care fight in the Clinton White House.
This guy doesn’t even have an official or sanctioned role in government.

Funny that Palin listed one of her qualifications as “taxpayer” when she may owe thousands of dollars in back taxes for the $25 grand the state gave her for her husband and kids to stay at home. I think “tax evader” would be more fitting.

John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 years to the government programs
But Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain’s senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to fund the tax credits, in part, with savings from Medicare and Medicaid. Those government health-care programs serve seniors, poor families and the disabled. Medicare spending for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 is estimated at $457.5 billion.
Mr. Holtz-Eakin said the Medicare and Medicaid changes would improve the programs and eliminate fraud, but he didn’t detail where the cuts would come from. “It’s about giving them the benefit package that has been promised to them by law at lower cost,” he said.

Because most people don’t understand how local politics works, should the article mention that the city council sets pay, not the mayor. The mayor is not king of the town and doesn’t vote on resolutions or ordinances (even those involving pay) – it’s the town council that has that power.

This is one independent woman who will be voting for Obama and am I am proud to be his supporter. McCain and Palin are dividing this country and when Obama becomes president he will have to work diligently to promote our healing.

“Because most people don’t understand how local politics works, should the article mention that the city council sets pay, not the mayor.”
Palin claims to have taken a voluntary pay cut.
So is she lying or can she set her own pay?

Ryan C – McCain’s “health care plan” is to give a tax credit to people that would allow them to purchase their own health insurance – this means a person would not be dependent on his/her employer to choose their health care plan for them. This would make insurance easier to obtain, less of a burden on small businesses and cheaper (more competition = better prices). It would also result in fewer people NEEDING Medicare/Medicaid, which is the ultimate goal – those programs need to be replaced with something better and everyone in this country knows that.

Several tax experts said they believe Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is required to pay federal taxes on $25,000 in reimbursements from the state of Alaska for her children’s travel expenses.
The Alaska governor released her 2006 and 2007 tax returns on Friday, sparking a lively debate on tax blogs and among tax professionals over whether reimbursements and per-diem meal payments from the state should be subject to federal taxes. Since taking office in December 2006, Gov. Palin, whose state salary is $125,000 a year, received reimbursements totaling $43,500 for travel and lodging for her family in connection with state business. Of that total, $25,000 was for her children’s travel and the rest was for her husband, Todd, the Washington Post reported.
While several tax experts have raised serious questions about whether the payments to Gov. Palin are taxable income, they said the case was clearer cut for treating the reimbursements for the children’s expenses as taxable income. “The kids are a slam dunk problem,” said Robert Spierer, a partner with the accounting firm Perelson Weiner LLP in New York City. “The husband you could make an argument that he had to be there because it was required for spouses to be there.”
But not the children, he said. “I don’t think I would ever claim that on my clients’ returns. I can’t think of a real strong argument for it.”

“AIP = Domestic terrorist group.
Sarah Palin sleeps with our enemy.”
Old Woman, please remove the tin foil hat and try to absorb this. Trying to equate Todd Palin’s membership in the AIP, a bunch of moose hunters sitting around the keg complaining about “big government”, with domestic terrorism is both sad and laughable.
Every American can relate to the image of bombs and the Pentagon, bombs and the Capital, bombs and a NYC police precinct. They cannot and will not relate to a moose lodge with a policy paper.
Tell me, why does Obama support the Akaka Bill. If you don’t know, the Akaka Bill would grant “special status” to so called “native Hawaiians” over all other citizens. Even it’s author understands it is a precursor to secession from the Union. This is a real bill in the Senate that is being held back for vote until after the election.
Could Obama still be President if the state he is from leaves the Union?

Mccain doesn’t worry about health care…
he married his.

What kind of “respectable” journalist digs thru people’s trash? “On a recent reporting trip to Alaska” my a$$ !!! More like a dirt-digging expedition, worthy of the National Enquirer.
This seems to be the best you leftists can come up with … how about something with real implications and importance like Obama’s at best questionable sources of funding? and don’t pretend there’s nothing there.

Woody
Todd Palin belonged to the party that wanted to NOT BE PART OF THE US.
and now he is going to be 2nd dude?
this is the worst Presidential ticket
that we have seen in our nation’s history.
Period.

Ryan C – She did take a pay cut in her first year. Again, the mayor does not have voting power when it comes to anything the council decides, including pay. The mayor works for the council – just like you don’t control your employer’s payroll decisions, a mayor doesn’t control their’s either. The question really is this – since the council overrode her desire for a paycut, what did she do with the money? Did she donate that money? Did she somehow give it back to the community? The question of what the council did doesn’t matter – it doesn’t reflect on her as mayor (if Palin had voted for a pay raise, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion, but she didn’t).

You should have mentioned… I’m suprised you didn’t… that the city VOTED on the new sports complex. Just a minor detail in your Palin details.
I can’t wait to see what else you can come up with, surely there is something to be found in her child hood!

debra…just because the city votes for it doesn’t mean it is right…please…
You can have all the Reps push it and the poor taxpayers end up paying for it.
Votes mean nothing. And what was the vote anyway? Do you have the numbers?

“Ryan C – She did take a pay cut in her first year. Again, the mayor does not have voting power when it comes to anything the council decides, ”
But she could have refused the pay increases.
Otherwise it looks like her voluntary paycut what just a political stunt.
Which makes sense when you look at how she operates.

“that the city VOTED on the new sports complex”
You mean the city council loaded with Palin cronies?

I see another four years of the same crap with McCain/Palin. I am tired of working and having nothing to show for it, as I have in the last 7. Republicans are running the economy as well as the country into the ground. Help us Obama!!!

Woody,
Please explain how the Akaka bill is different from rights we grant to Native Americans on the mainland in terms of self governance.

dl:
“Todd Palin belonged to the party that wanted to NOT BE PART OF THE US.
and now he is going to be 2nd dude?”
Your point is well taken, he was a member of a party that did not want to be part of the country. And then he wasn’t. Do you disagree with my assessment that it was and is an all bark, no bite party?
For years in RI we had the Cool Moose party. The leader ran for governor and got 20% one year on a platform of “A strange man for a strange job”.
Please answer my question on Obama’s support of the Akaka bill. This isn’t a bunch of moose hunters screaming into the wilderness, it’s a real, live bill.

Rick…ok let’s did. Where did that story come from originally? Tell me…

rick
rick rick rick58
“Obama’s at best questionable sources of funding?”
lol
nothing like the 120k or so plus plane flights and vacations Mccain took the first time we lost a trillion dollars
you remember when he was flying around and hanging out with the guy that raped our economy the first time we had to bail out the deregulators that mccain is so fond of whipping to the back of the room.(..like he is trying to do with healthcare…)
so mccain learned his lesson from the whole deregulator thing and Keating?
oh that’s why he hired the deregulating lobbyists not only to RUN his camapign (Davis and Black and the 23 other deregulating lobbyists in his inner circle) but had them write the future economic plan for all of us…
Gramm
oh and did we mention the Enron Loophole that gramm wrote before McCain hired him to plan our economic futures.
this is a joke
the worst ticket our nation has ever seen.
period.

ricky…does this sound familiar? Isn’t this how we got in this mess, on Wall Street, in the first place, by letting them ” do their thing”?

Woody…I think you better back track a few steps and take your foot out of your mouth and also those fingers out of your ears.
If you want truth of the AIP connection just go to you tube and type in Palin AIP member…
Now, that is only if you really want the truth but then again, you may think not knowing is your truth.
Look at the rest of the vids there as well, very enlightening.
She supported that group all the way into this year.
Obama/Biden ’08

“Palin is one of the most corrupt governors ever. As mayor she put Wasilla in 30m debt and as governor she has been involved in several corruption investogation. Something stinks in Juno.”
Hey genius, it’s “Juneau”, “investigations”, and I think “$30M” is a better abbreviation for 30 million dollars.
More exaggerations, lies, and bad spelling from the elite leftist intelligentsia …
(Hey guys, I’m just having a little fun here. Vota for Obama, I don’t care. I think all sides should just cut the crap and discuss the issues. We’re all smart enough (even you) to listen and decide for ourselves without all the name calling, trash talking, garbage digging stuff that this race is becoming reduced to.)
America is better than this.

Crystal, you are incorrect, under the McCain plan, all health care benefits will be subject to taxation. YOu get taxed for what your insurance covers. In order to pay for his plan, McCain will cut medicaid and medicare. His entire plan will, at best, cover an additional 5 million more people. Obama’s plan covers 28-40 million more, costs less and offers more choices. The reason why McCain is not talking about the issues is because he has already lost on all of them.

The McCain plan transforms the current tax code to provide all American families – including the self-employed and the uninsured – the same tax benefit, a $5,000 refundable tax credit ($2,500 for individuals) that was previously only available to those with employer coverage. Families can use this credit to purchase insurance of their choice, including keeping their current coverage.
This is an approach supported by Barack Obama’s own Senior Economic Advisor Jason Furman who wrote that “we could scrap the current deduction altogether and replace it with progressive tax credits that, together with other changes, would ensure that every American has affordable health insurance.”

“I think “$30M” is a better abbreviation for 30 million dollars.
More exaggerations”
You’re right.
Palin left Wasilla “only” $22,000,000 in debt.
Basically $2500 per resident of Wasilla.

Look for all of her populist rhetoric, I am one of you, Joe six pack, Shinny City on a hill, she is still a politician, a Republican at that.
The scary part is she is totally unaware of the world outside of Alaska.

“In some European countries (Britain for one) McCain and Palin would be charged …” OMG, let’s turn the USA into a frickin’ nanny state like Britian !!!
If you like it so much, MOVE THERE !!!!!

MrBear
also
you do realize that your explanations for the lies of the last 8 years are the same things Bush and Cheney said…
lol
you know after they lied to us.
excuses and more lies are what it adds up to…
same team
same tactics
and if you can’t see that you are getting lonelier by the day
idiots got us Bush Cheney
now the same “logicians” is arguing for McCain Palin.

BD,
The tax plan Obama proposes puts more money in my pocket, his health care plan makes that more affordable, his education plan makes it possible for my kids to go to college if I can’t pay cash for it. Yeah, Under Obama, I think things will be better. Under McCain, my son will be drafted, my company will stop offering insurance, I’ll pay more since the ins companies will have $5K promise from the GOP and not provide much in the way of coverage. Schools will get worse as it becomes more about the tests and less about getting the best people to teach.

“The McCain plan transforms the current tax code to provide all American families – including the self-employed and the uninsured – the same tax benefit, a $5,000 refundable tax credit ($2,500 for individuals) that was previously only available to those with employer coverage.”
I am a non smoker in his early 30′s with no preexisting conditions.
$2500 would pay for about 7 months of healthcare based on what my employer currently pays in a group plan.
So basically John McCain would tax my remaining 5 months of healthcare as income.
My coworker whose wife and he are in their 50′s? Well the combined credit would pay for about 5 months of their health care leaving them to be taxed on the remaining 7 months of healthcare as income.
Thanks to John McCain, many people would be getting the same healthcare for more of the cost.

Rick58: “…elite leftist intelligentsia.”
For someone with such deep opinions about spelling, I am quite amused that you seem to have your own personal definitions of words like “elite” and “intelligentsia.” I guess in your world the worst person imaginable would be Albert Einstein – if he also a Navy Seal.
Selecting leaders on the basis of them NOT being better leaders, and NOT being intelligent does not make a whole lot of sense.

(a) Reaffirmation- The delegation by the United States of authority to the State of Hawaii to address the conditions of the indigenous, native people of Hawaii contained in the Act entitled `An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Hawaii into the Union’ approved March 18, 1959 (Public Law 86-3, 73 Stat. 4), is reaffirmed.
(b) Negotiations-
(1) IN GENERAL- Upon the reaffirmation of the special political and legal relationship between the United States and the Native Hawaiian governing entity, the United States and the State of Hawaii may enter into negotiations with the Native Hawaiian governing entity designed to lead to an agreement addressing such matters as–
(A) the transfer of lands, natural resources, and other assets, and the protection of existing rights related to such lands or resources;
(B) the exercise of governmental authority over any transferred lands, natural resources, and other assets, including land use;
(C) the exercise of civil and criminal jurisdiction;
(D) the delegation of governmental powers and authorities to the Native Hawaiian governing entity by the United States and the State of Hawaii;
(E) any residual responsibilities of the United States and the State of Hawaii; and
(F) grievances regarding assertions of historical wrongs committed against Native Hawaiians by the United States or by the State of Hawaii.
(2) AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING LAWS- Upon agreement on any matter or matters negotiated with the United States, the State of Hawaii, and the Native Hawaiian governing entity, the parties are authorized to submit–
(A) to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives, recommendations for proposed amendments to Federal law that will enable the implementation of agreements reached between the 3 governments; and
(B) to the Governor and the legislature of the State of Hawaii, recommendations for proposed amendments to State law that will enable the implementation of agreements reached between the 3 governments.
(3) GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY AND POWER- Any governmental authority or power to be exercised by the Native Hawaiian governing entity which is currently exercised by the State or Federal Governments shall be exercised by the Native Hawaiian governing entity only as agreed to in negotiations pursuant to section 8(b)(1) of this Act and beginning on the date on which legislation to implement such agreement has been enacted by the United States Congress, when applicable, and by the State of Hawaii, when applicable. This includes any required modifications to the Hawaii State Constitution in accordance with the Hawaii Revised Statutes.
(c) Claims-
(1) DISCLAIMERS- Nothing in this Act–
(A) creates a cause of action against the United States or any other entity or person;
(B) alters existing law, including existing case law, regarding obligations on the part of the United States or the State of Hawaii with regard to Native Hawaiians or any Native Hawaiian entity;
(C) creates obligations that did not exist in any source of Federal law prior to the date of enactment of this Act; or
(D) establishes authority for the recognition of Native Hawaiian groups other than the single Native Hawaiian Governing Entity.
(2) FEDERAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY-
(A) SPECIFIC PURPOSE- Nothing in this Act is intended to create or allow to be maintained in any court any potential breach-of-trust actions, land claims, resource-protection or resource-management claims, or similar types of claims brought by or on behalf of Native Hawaiians or the Native Hawaiian governing entity for equitable, monetary, or Administrative Procedure Act-based relief against the United States or the State of Hawaii, whether or not such claims specifically assert an alleged breach of trust, call for an accounting, seek declaratory relief, or seek the recovery of or compensation for lands once held by Native Hawaiians.
(B) ESTABLISHMENT AND RETENTION OF SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY- To effectuate the ends expressed in section 8(c)(1) and 8(c)(2)(A), and notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, the United States retains its sovereign immunity to any claim that existed prior to the enactment of this Act (including, but not limited to, any claim based in whole or in part on past events), and which could be brought by Native Hawaiians or any Native Hawaiian governing entity. Nor shall any preexisting waiver of sovereign immunity (including, but not limited to, waivers set forth in chapter 7 of part I of title 5, United States Code, and sections 1505 and 2409a of title 28, United States Code) be applicable to any such claims. This complete retention or reclaiming of sovereign immunity also applies to every claim that might attempt to rely on this Act for support, without regard to the source of law under which any such claim might be asserted.
(C) EFFECT- It is the general effect of section 8(c)(2)(B) that any claims that may already have accrued and might be brought against the United States, including any claims of the types specifically referred to in section 8(c)(2)(A), along with both claims of a similar nature and claims arising out of the same nucleus of operative facts as could give rise to claims of the specific types referred to in section 8(c)(2)(A), be rendered nonjusticiable in suits brought by plaintiffs other than the Federal Government.
(3) STATE SOVEREIGNTY IMMUNITY-
(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law, the State retains its sovereign immunity, unless waived in accord with State law, to any claim, established under any source of law, regarding Native Hawaiians, that existed prior to the enactment of this Act.
(B) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to constitute an override pursuant to section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment of State sovereign immunity held under the Eleventh Amendment.

GoUSA247: “I am so offend..”
Yes, I’m SURE you are. Since the Republicans showed such gallantry to Senator Clinton. She has never, ever been called any even slightly offensive terms during her time in the limelight – not once, even by the most minor of Republicans. Nope, not in “help-I’m-being-oppressed!” Republican world.

Thinking,
And if you stay with your employer based coverage you will be taxed on it.

Jake asks “Do you remember last year when Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., donated a doodle for an auction to benefit The Neurofibromatosis Association and epilepsy research?” No, I don’t. But I remember when the stock market was plunging 800 points and you were writing about pet wigs.

Thinking – the part of the equation that you are missing is that a freer, more competitive market would result in lower prices. Right now, your employer decided what features you need in your health insurance based on the health issues faced by all your coworkers. You might need a more basic plan, you might need a more complex one. The bottom line is you would chose what you need, not your employer. Yes, you’d still pay your share, but chances are, that premium would be much lower.

“the part of the equation that you are missing is that a freer, more competitive market would result in lower prices.”
LOL.
Spoken like someone who has never sought health insurance for themselves or their company.

“The bottom line is you would chose what you need, not your employer.”
And under McCain if you stay with the employer plan you will be taxed on those benefits as income.
McCain plan will force people to drop their employer coverage and get the most basic health insurance that they can afford while waiting for McCain;s tax credit during filing time, hoping it will offset the outlays one has already made.
The McCain plan = Less health care for more money

Does any Republican here think that people should have their healthcare benefits taxed as income as John McCain proposes?

Me again: Ya, not so… Saw an expert on TV on McCains plan… bad… did not recommend it. You will be paying more, really think about it. Common sense…

McCain is just proving with the health care debate
that his policies are from someone who has never had to worry about healthcare
has no clue what the issue is
because he never has had to.
He doesn’t have to worry about Medicare or Medicaid…
or fiinding coverage
he married his healthcare provider.
This deregulated open market system is someone who speaks for the wealthy and doesn’t realize what the rest of America is facing….
just like most of his policy stances…he does not understand the shortage of family practice physicians…and what it is like to not be able to afford healthcare or find health care for that matter.
the worst ticket in the history of our nation.

Howdy Do!: “Universal healthcare is a pipe dream and nothing more. ”
This is nonsense. WE HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE – NO ONE DIES IN THE STREET UNABLE TO GET HEALTHCARE. But as has been pointed out by both Republicans and Democrats, we have very inefficient, stupid health care. It is a better investment to give a kid $20 in antibiotics rather than wait for them to show up septic in the ER and run up a 5-digit bill getting better.
WE HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOW, BUT HEALTHCARE BY EMERGENCY ROOM IS INEFFICIENT, EXPENSIVE, AND BARELY EFFECTIVE.

GoUSA247: If you’re just going to post the same thing over and over, at least take the opportunity to do a bit of copy-editting. Or wait for the official McCain talking point; it should be out any minute now.

To bad you can’t find doodles from Obama it would be nice to see any thing from his days as a sen in the state of ILL.
And Health care is DOA for both party’s more lies

jhw539 – I’m not sure how you’re defining universal healthcare, but no, we do not have it in this country. Millions of people go without basic medical care because they don’t have insurance and can’t afford to pay a doctor. And yes, people DO in fact die because of it (not to mention the lack of preventative care that leads to many deaths). As for people dying in the streets – every now and again, there’s a horrific story of people dying in hospital emergency rooms. ~~ And $20 antibiotics for kids?? where are you buying your antibiotics? The last antibiotic I bought was $4! You need to look for a cheaper pharmacy.

jhw539 – I’m not sure how you’re defining universal healthcare, but no, we do not have it in this country. Millions of people go without basic medical care because they don’t have insurance and can’t afford to pay a doctor. And yes, people DO in fact die because of it (not to mention the lack of preventative care that leads to many deaths). As for people dying in the streets – every now and again, there’s a horrific story of people dying in hospital emergency rooms. ~~ And $20 antibiotics for kids?? where are you buying your antibiotics? The last antibiotic I bought was $4! You need to look for a cheaper pharmacy.

jhw539 – I’m not sure how you’re defining universal healthcare, but no, we do not have it in this country. Millions of people go without basic medical care because they don’t have insurance and can’t afford to pay a doctor. And yes, people DO in fact die because of it (not to mention the lack of preventative care that leads to many deaths). As for people dying in the streets – every now and again, there’s a horrific story of people dying in hospital emergency rooms. ~~ And $20 antibiotics for kids?? where are you buying your antibiotics? The last antibiotic I bought was $4! You need to look for a cheaper pharmacy.

Bishop[
Healthcare can’t be DOA
if we don’t reign in healthcare somehow …whether it be buy focusing in on cost, prevention and universality
our country will go down the tubes.
Obama knows we have priorities on cost
Billing costing more than the actual healthcare.
a lack of family practice docs and nurses and a problem with retention
a malpractice insurance redundancy issue that is getting passed on to all of us.
and pharmaceutical sales and marketing that is still too infiltrated in the system…
Universality helps…but by reducing bureaucracy not increasing it.
the free market and deregulation of the healthcare industry makes a handful of hospitals better but overall it will shrink the market not increase it…
when as it is the overhead of the uninsured and the lack of charitable donation reductions we are about to see are going to make things VERY BAD…
and as more people are uninsured or have higher premiums…and not getting early detection and prevention
the costs are going to sky rocket
and that does not take into consideration the aging baby boom population
so everyone needs to get their heads out of their butts
energy and healthcare are the hurdles and keys to our future.
MccainPalin the worst ticket we have ever seen in our nation.

Meet me here in four or eight years and Health care will still be DOA

If elected, Obama’s cabinet: Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Pfleger, Louis Farrakhan, Fannie Mae CEO, Freddie Mac CEO.,ACORN exec.

Wow….You all are drinking some serious h8trade. I think she is awesome, and I cannot wait to see her as Vice President.
You Rock!

jhw539 – I’m not sure how you’re defining universal healthcare, but no, we do not have it in this country. Millions of people go without basic medical care because they don’t have insurance and can’t afford to pay a doctor. And yes, people DO in fact die because of it (not to mention the lack of preventative care that leads to many deaths). As for people dying in the streets – every now and again, there’s a horrific story of people dying in hospital emergency rooms. ~~ And $20 antibiotics for kids?? where are you buying your antibiotics? The last antibiotic I bought was $4! You need to look for a cheaper pharmacy.

Howdy do!:”jhw539 – I’m not sure how you’re defining universal healthcare,”
Sorry, I thought putting it in caps would help you notice the definition I am using: “NO ONE DIES IN THE STREET UNABLE TO GET HEALTHCARE.” You can expand that to no one is walking around with bone sticking out of their arm because they can’t get healthcare, or a festering wound because they can’t get healthcare (OK, you might argue the lack of mental healthcare may result in such conditions, but that’s a stretch).
“As for people dying in the streets – every now and again, there’s a horrific story of people dying in hospital emergency rooms.”
As there are in countries with good universal healthcare, such as France, Canada, or even Britian. Universal healthcare does little to address local pockets of malfeasance.
” ~~ And $20 antibiotics for kids?? where are you buying your antibiotics? The last antibiotic I bought was $4! You need to look for a cheaper pharmacy.”
Antibiotics are not cheap in the US – even a basic one like Amoxicillian will run you $10, and I was factoring in a few bucks for a nurse to take a temperature and write a script. But that does not impact my argument in any way:
1. The US governments are paying for universal healthcare.
2. The type of universal healthcare they are paying for is very expensive and provides very poor care for the dollar.

Well since they have been saying the same thing about health care since I left home and I am now a grandmother and in the healthfield I say Health care is DOA and the insurance and the DR.

Tonya – WalMart only charges $4 for all generic drugs – they advertise it pretty aggressively.

Ryan:
“Does any Republican here think that people should have their healthcare benefits taxed as income as John McCain proposes?”
I’m not a Republican but I am a conservative so I’ll give it a shot. The answer is an emphatic “No”! However, both health care plans stink because they fail to address the heart of the problem: administrative costs.
We should scrap Medicare, Medicaid and employer based health care and use the Swiss plan as our model. The Swiss by nature are more conservative than liberal yet successfully nationalized their health care system.
The odds of all this happening here are about 1,000,000 to 1 because it’s a radioactive political subject and it makes too much sense.

omg: the difference is that Hilary Clinton is a *****! And she’s married to an impeached president that you people wanted to put back in the White House.

That scan looks like the half-baked musings usually found in a middle-school History notebook.

Bishop it sounds like you are one of the baby boomers.
and if you are in the healthcare field
you have to know that Hospitals as it is (wasteful or not)
are getting subsidized not only from our government but by a team of professionals raising charitable funds…
and as more and more people are losing coverage…you should realize that those costs are getting passed on to everyone.
you should also realize when Obama says “universality” but also says it is about “cost” and that universality may help but unlike other dems he says it is not the answer to reducing costs…
he is right.
He also talks about his awareness of bureaucracy causing more problems…
He gets this…better than any candidate I have ever heard talk about it. (and I saw them all in NH)
McCain couldn’t show you what an insurance application looked like…
never mind how difficult it is to resolve the numbers from yuor household budget with those…
he is not a numbers guy
because he has never had to be.
and it shows.
with the economy…baby boomers…the billing issues and red tape out of control… that the malpractice issue needs to be addressed along with a free market way to address pharmaceuticals.
ignore the spin
this time vote for the smart guy.
not the soundbite team
whose policies are the same ones that brought us…HERE.

and Woody
Obama talks about administrative costs ad nauseum
so you are wrong.
he gets it
Mccain doesn’t.
because in mccain’s defense he’s never had to
and he never will have to.

souther conservative
again
the whole dems want to be taken care of…
no dems want to not have the trashing of our country healthcare standing economy
that we have seen over the past 8 years.

Louis – I don’t know. I was opposed to the bailout, opposed to this expensive war and agree that government priorities are just not in sync with the American public. But given the circumstances, McCain’s healthcare plan is simply more realistic than Obama’s idea for universal health care (honestly, if I thought it would work and if I thought the timing was right, I’d support the idea for universal healthcare too – I just don’t think now’s the time)

Palin accused Obama of exploiting the health care and Social Security issues to win votes among seniors in Florida.
“Our health-care plan will give millions of middle class Americans access to better health-care coverage without costing you a dime,” she said, saying middle class families would receive a $5,000 tax credit to buy coverage.
How can she say that with a straight face?  Has she not read McCain’s health care plan.  It is paid for by taxing employer provided health care plans and cutting funding for Medicare and Medicaid.  And McCain wanted to privatize social security. Thank God that did not happen we would all be in an even bigger world of hurt now that the market is tanking.
McCain, you have been on a US Govt health plan your entire life….but nobody else should have that benefit.

“You people ever heard of Congress? Not to mention all the committees & subcommittees. Last time I looked we have a democratic congress.”
Yes, since Jan 2007 we have had a Democratic Congress.
The 7 years before that it was a Republican House and 5 1/2 years before a Republican Senate.
With a Republican in the White House the whole time.

southern_conservative…not a history major I see…Clinton was not impeached, he served 8 years duhhhhhhhh.
Read much?
Obama/Biden ’08

Is McCain and Palin’s plans is to have clan meetings? McCain and Palin didn’t say a word about what was say. Is this where McCain and Palin want to take this nation? And just WHO is Palin?

I question the patriotism of both Sarah and Todd Palin. It’s no secret that Alaskan’s have no respect for those of us who live in the ‘lower 48‘. But the part that really troubles me is the association and membership that both Sarah and Todd have in the Alaska Independent Party which calls for Alaska to secede from the United States.
AIP founder, Joe Vogler has made the following comments regarding seceding and the United States in general: “The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government,” and “I won’t be buried under their damn flag,”
Sarah and Todd Palin have never repudiated or distanced themselves from those statements.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild mentions the Pumas in a Pennsylvania newspaper:
“One organization – PUMA, which stands for PEOPLE United MEANS ACTIONy – has more than 5 million members across the country, she said. Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of the Clintons and the Rodham family, is serving as national director of Citizens for McCain. Brazil accompanied de Rothschild on her Scranton visit.”
“Barack Obama has never had the mandate of Democrats,” she said. “And Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi ignored the 18 million people that voted for Hillary Clinton. They can’t be surprised at the 5 million to 7 million Clinton supporters who are now supporting McCain.”

If it weren’t for Bill Ayers there probably would not be any Barack Obama in politics.
Was Barack Obama selected and groomed by Ayers (and others in Ayers circle) to be their inside man in political office?
After all:
- It was Ayers that in 1995 had “a coffee” in his house to introduce Obama as the new person running for office in Chicago politics.
- Prior to that it was Ayers who personally selected Obama to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago of a $100,000,000 Annenberg Project (Ayers was also on the board of directors).
- Later between 2000 and 2002, Ayers helped select Obama for the Wood Fund of Chicago. Ayers had been on the Board of Directors since 1999.
Ayers put Obama on those boards so Obama could use the money and power to purchase influence, be very visible and make a name for himself in Chicago.
Again, without Ayers there would be no Obama.
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The question is, how early did Obama know Ayers?
They were both in New York in the mid-1980s. Ayers lived not far from Obama. Both were going to school and/or working in NY.
When Obama leaves NY where does he go?
Chicago. Ayer’s home town.
Obama had never been to or had any connections in Chicago. Of all the cities in America to live Obama chooses the home town of Bill Ayers?
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Did Ayers (and associates) help arrange for Obama to get into Harvard in late 1988?
In mid-1988, Obama traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.
Obama started Harvard in late 1988.
How could Obama pay for all the travel to Europe and Africa plus tuition and living expenses at Harvard? All on the salary of a Community Organizer?
Who was sponsoring Obama? Ayers and associates?
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How far back does the connection between Obama and Ayers really go?
Was Barack Obama selected and groomed by Ayers (and others in Ayers circle) to be their inside man in political office?

Perhaps you never took basic economics.
The goal of taxes is to maximize revenues while minimizng loss of transactions.
When you tax something like sports, you cripple demand and destroy economies. When you tax something inelastic, people hurt less and they benefit more.

There are still going to be probably about 7 million Hillary supporters THAT WILL NOT SUPPORT OBAMA. That being said they are spread throughout the country and not just in the 7 states that determine this election.
THIS ELECTION RESULT WILL NOT BE MALE/FEMALE, BLACK/WHITE……it will be young and stupid voters who have no perspective on life and are being supported by mommy and daddy still. They should not be allowed to vote until 21, and I will work for that after this election is over. Must be 21 to vote, unless you are serving this country or employed full time.
THE YOUNG AND STUPID KOOK AID DRINKERS WILL ELECT THE ROCK STAR DUDE INTO OFFICE. Sad statement about our country.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN
Posted by: hanna | Oct 7, 2008 6:12:17 PM
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don’t embarass Hillary

Maybe she should doodle smething from Joe Vorge or from the Mugee the witch-hunter. “American schools are full of witchcraft and sorcery.”

I thought she said she didn’t belong to the Wassilla Assembly of God??? Its listed on the right toward the bottom.