| TheRealMafoo said: Oh, and I went to Obama's site, and read a few things. Not a real fan. Here is one thing that down right scars me: Mandatory Coverage of Children: Obama will require that all children have health care coverage. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/ What does that mean? If you don't cover your kids, you go to jail? Get fined? What? Why does the government get to make that choice? Scary. |
You know the Senate was trying to expand free healthcare coverage for kids until Bush vetoed the bill? We have a lot of problems with poorer kids not getting adequate healthcare in this country, and our infant mortality rates are downright bad.
Seriously, this is the kind of thing I mean by fear tactics. Do you honestly think that the House and Senate or the American public would let him do something that reasonable (which is of course assuming you interpreted what he meant correctly in the first place)? People contort a noble goal into something out of 1984.
If anyone has turned the government into an authoritarian monster it is the Bush Administration, who threw transparency out the window.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
