<<Obama wants our government to take over running health care. If our government can't handle education what will it do to our health care? >>
Right now your health care is run by private enterprise and although you SPEND more per capita for it than any other country on the face of the earth, it sucks big-time.
<<Do you want a government worker standing between you and your doctor?>>
You'd probably be way better off than with an insurance adjuster standing there, focused on the bottom line and a healthy profit at year-end for the owners of the company, but it's a meaningless question, because I live in Canada and I've had a lot of dealings with the government health plan but I've never met a government worker yet. Long story short, the government PAYS my doctor for me, it does not stand between me and him. I select my own doctor and he orders the treatment I need and the government pays for it from money that we contribute.
<<I hear McCain saying less government, less taxes and less spending. I hear Obama talk about raising taxes and spending more money on more government programs. Clearly government doesn't run as efficient as private business.>>
Your health care is in private hands and it sucks. The whole system is broken. 47 million Americans don't even have health insurance and aren't covered.
<<Clearly education is broken. We have stupid children that have grown up to be stupid adults. >>
That's because of evolution being taught in the schools instead of Bible Studies.
<<I want our government out of our lives as much as possible. The more they give me the more I own them.>>
Me too. I think any manufacturer should be allowed to make any product no matter how poisonous or dangerous and if it kills hundreds of people, let the market punish the guy by sending him into bankruptcy. Let insiders trade shares of their own companies all they like, and if the investors aren't smart enough to see what's happening, they
deserve to lose their life savings. Let kiddie porn flood the internet and if you don't like it, don't watch it. Legalize dope! Abolish federally mandated health and safety laws in the workplace! Save the taxpayers' dollars. Kramer, you're a political genius. You oughtta run for office.
<<We have a choice between drilling for more oil and an energy plan that covers all the bases over Obama's plan that is pie in the sky and based on technology that doesn't exist yet.>>
Ruin the environment and the land now, dammit. We need that oil. Won't come in from the drilling for twenty years but we'll need it then. Obama's plan? Don't read it, it's pie in the sky!
It's based on technology that doesn't exist yet - - possibly the dumbest thing that Kramer has written to date, which is really saying a lot.
Can you imagine if FDR, after reading Einstein's letter about the potential of nuclear fission to make an atomic bomb, had told his people, "Forget that crazy shit! It's based on technology that doesn't exist yet?" And while you're at it, ask yourselves if FDR assigned the task of making a nuclear weapon in the shortest possible time to private industry or to the U.S. government.
<<John McCain understands we are in a war with Muslim extremists. >>
That is
exactly the problem. These oversimplified comic-book portrayals of the real world are possibly all that John McCain
CAN understand, keeping in mind that this is a guy who graduated
fifth from the bottom of an
800-man class in a
military school. (This is a way of saying this guy is really, really, really
DUMB. You probably have no conception of how dumb this guy really is until you make him the President of the United States. George W. Bush can give you some idea of the potential consequences of this kind of choice.) The real world, unfortunately, is NOT a comic book, and despite the preferences of the idiot class for simple solutions to simple problems, the sad fact is that none of the country's current problems are simple, and that sophisticated,
proven brainpower is needed to deal with complex and nuanced problems, particularly in international relations, which the Republicans have already screwed up beyond belief.
<<A Russia that is now flexing muscle because they are rich on energy profits. McCain has the experience to deal with these dangers. >>
REally, how? He was an ambassador? A diplomat? A student of international relations? His "experience" consists of flying a jet fighter-bomber, getting shot down and held in a prison camp for five years. And this is useful because . . . ?
<<Obama is a young man with a thin resume and little real world experience and lacks good judgment.>>
ROTFLMFAO. OBAMA was one of the ONLY politicians who saw from the beginning that the invasion of Iraq would turn into the disaster that we can all now recognize. Bush and his cronies bought bad intelligence (they didn't really, they CREATED the "bad intelligence" but let's indulge Kramer and sirs in their pathetic excuses for now) and entered a disastrous war, Obama alone held back and said not to go. So . . . so WHO'S got the "bad judgment?" OBAMA of course. Just remember these conservative nut-jobs live in Bizarro World, where "hello" means "goodbye" and "good judgment" means falling for bad intelligence and deciding to invade Iraq and "bad judgment" means foreseeing a disaster that actually does happen.
<<The choice is clear.>>
Well, you got THAT right, at least.
<< I wonder if the failure of our education system is what might get Obama elected.>>
Don't be silly. It's what got Bush close enough for a little fraud and a crooked Supreme Court to pull him over the top and it's what keeps a clown like John Insane still in the running as a serious contender.
<< Now we have all the under-educated kids that just turned 18 voting. They are buying into the slick ads for Obama. Falling for pop culture . . . falling for the ONE, the messiah Obama. They will be severely harmed if they get their way.>>
Yeah. Kramer's gonna spank 'em. Talk about the politics of fear. Avoid harm to yourselves, vote for Insane.
