God Bless America and you all!
Good job! We did it! Now is the time to support Senator Barack Obama programs (Policies).
If times permits, I will write a brief of how Massachusetts "Universal Healthcare" works. -The compromises, the pros and the cons, and how we could adapt the MA prototype for the country. We know it works!
I can write a brief on electronic medical record (EMR) and how we can use it to support "Universal Healthcare". The truth is that we can provide healthcare to the 45 million uninsured Americans, and cut state and Federal budget in half.
Law and Public Policy (Healthcare)
Prank Palin call disturbing a lot… Parts not translated – Damaging to McCain and GOPExactly, we should go try hunting by helicopter like you did, I never did that. Like we say in French, on pourrait tuer des bebe phoques, aussi (we could kill some baby seals, also)the song the comedians refer to "Du rouge a levres sur une cochonne" -- actually means translated "PUT RED LIPSTICK ON A S.L.U.T."
McCain's Foreign policy in times of war! Give me a break!
Wealth redistribution is not a new idea within the legal system. When you study law, the liability charges for wrongs are to compensate victims. David Friedman talks about outcomes and consequences. When you apply common law, a base for economic justice and equity comes up as fairness and justice. Economists focus on outcomes and the legal system goes further by evaluating consequences (interned or un-intended). I have come to understand that there are so many in the media market are illiterates. Someone like Sean Hannity only has a high School level. So is Rush Limbaugh as well. And McCain is just as dumb as well!
The law feels that equity endowment, besides public goods that may need redistribution means that wealth should be created using fair market practices. When an individual enslaves others and accumulates wealth by preying on the innocent, the state has a right to confiscate the wealth. It is no different than seizing the house and boat of a bank rubber.
When we create taxes to prey on the middle class, it is called unfair practices.
In recognizing the Warren USJ decision, Senator Barack indicates that the idea of fairness should be left to the states. Is this socialism? Redistribution and socialism are different. Taxes are an instrument for redistribution. By agreeing to any form of taxes (low or high) we are socialists by McCain and GOP definition.
It is stupid to try to interpret law when dumb McCain has no clue about the economy. I don’t think McCain wants to get into a constitution argument with Senator Barack Obama.
I wonder how those McCain donors are feeling about their checks going straight to a hair and make-up stylist. Who's the celebrity now? $13K to look "pretty" and $150K to look stylish? How many hockey moms shop at Sak's?
McCain said he "knows where Osama is hiding and will capture or kill him ONLY if you elect him". McCain is unpatriotic.
He let us lost so many lives and this SOB couldn't tell us how to get this evil man?
At the presidential debate in Nashville last Tuesday, Senator John McCain made his case for fiscally conservative, smaller government, calling for an “across the board” spending freeze and denouncing what he described as Senator Barack Obama’s “government will do this and government will do that” approach to health care.
But Mr. McCain’s big proposal that night was to spend $300 billion in taxpayer money to buy bad mortgages from banks and refinance them, a plan conservatives quickly condemned as an expensive effort to nationalize the mortgage industry.
The juxtaposition of a hands-off approach to governing with an embrace of intervention — albeit intervention at a moment of national crisis — was hardly unusual for Mr. McCain. Throughout his run for the presidency, he has often proposed policies that appear to be incompatible with one another, if not contradictory.
His foreign policy, for example, calls for ostracizing Russia for its undemocratic ways by expelling it from the Group of Eight industrialized powers, a hard-line position that he took long before Russia’s war with Georgia this summer. But Mr. McCain also calls for fostering closer ties with Russia to negotiate a new nuclear disarmament agreement.
Mr. McCain’s economic policy centers on extending President Bush’s deficit-swelling tax cuts and on cutting even more corporate taxes. But at the same time, Mr. McCain has vowed to balance the federal budget by the end of his term, a pledge he has reiterated even with the fiscal crisis threatening to throw the budget even deeper into the red.
In terms of public policy:
"Healthcare is a right and not a priviledge"
Meanwhile, it is the right who has been identified with a rear-guard action to defend an America where people speak and reason properly, where language doesn't devolve into the lowest common denominator, where phrases born in rap culture, like "shout out" don't find their way into a vice-presidential debate.
So let's play a thought game. Imagine if a folksy, inexperienced black woman was nominated to be vice president on the Democratic ticket. And imagine that instead of coming from Alaska she came from Alabama, and instead of dropping white aw-shucksisms like "Doggone" and "You betcha" into her conversation, she used the equivalent black vernacular.
Imagine, as well, if her sentences didn't come close to parsing, if they were wickedly ungrammatical -- no, anti-grammatical -- clouds of disconnected thoughts and sound bites. The right would rise up in indignation and disgust, and the most vitriolic, the Rush Limbaughs, the Michael Savages, would decry the presence of Ebonics on the national stage.
Were she black, Sarah Palin's performance would have been skewered by the right as undignified and demeaning to the office she seeks. But because she is a culture warrior in heels, she is hailed by the right as a breath of populist fresh air, and her use of what conservatives once sniffed at as "substandard English" is celebrated as a signifier of her glorious everydayness.
There was a time when you could be a progressive and still respect American conservatives, at least from a Burkean perspective. On one hand, intellectual champions like Buckley offered a worthy opposition and admirable erudition. And on the other hand, the left's willingness to become identified with an ideology that sought to warehouse spelling, long division, and Tolstoy, was dumb.
But with their combination of anti-intellectualism and over-injection of religion into the public sphere, as reified by the Governor of Alaska, the conservative movement has abandoned any claim on our intelligence. You betcha.
CLEARWATER -- Constantly under the watchful eyes of security, the media wasn't permitted to wander around inside Coachman Park to talk to Sarah Palin supporters. When reporters tried to leave the designated press area and head toward the bleachers where the crowd was seated, an escort would dart out of nowhere and confront him or her and say, "Can I help you?'' and turn the person around.When one reporter asked an escort, who would not give her name, why the press wasn't allowed to mingle, she said that in the past, negative things had been written. The campaign wanted to avoid that possibility Monday.-- Times staff writer Eileen Schulte
