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Fellow Clintonistas Take no Comfort in McCain

by hypopg, Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 11:05:56 AM EST

Well I don't even want to state the obvious. We were out- campaigned, out-played, out-gunned, and out-smarted by the best campaign in modern times. Hats off to Senator Obama and his whole team. I have problems with the process but absolutely none with the candidate. The chasm in vision, policy and ethics between Barack Obama and John McCain is staggering. Perhaps John McCain was a maverick once upon a time but he has become a Bush sycophant over the past eight years. If ever tomorrow was fighting against yesterday it is now, it is this election.

It is not John McCain's age which puts him at a disadvantage. It his pursuit of one failed policy after another in defiance of all the contrary evidence that makes him so vulnerable. His politics are backward looking and prey on dividing the American people.
I think Barack Obama is uniquely suited to bridge many of the artificial divides put in place by successive Republican regimes.

Now is a time for both healing (the Party) and harnessing the just anger of the American people. We have been duped into a war and a facile notion that we can create democracies with a checkbook. Dare I say the account is so overdrawn that the infrastructure of the nation has been sorely neglected. I can't really see the practical difference between death by terror or death by bridge collapse.

I do hope that Senator Obama takes the brave step towards truly universal mandated health care. It would be a generous nod to the Clinton people and it would be the right policy.

I have no doubt that Hillary will be gracious and helpful in the campaign. And Barack Obama will be the recipient of some real money bombs now!!

The guiding meme in this campaign will be tomorrow verses yesterday and I think there is no question that we have the man
and we are the party of tomorrow.

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Well said! Recommended. n/t (2.00 / 3)

Even John McCain lusts after teh engels.

by sricki on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 11:08:26 AM EST

Re: Fellow Clintonistas Take no Comfort in McCain (2.00 / 3)

About Health care, Obama has always stressed the process and acknowledged the details of final plan will be subject to negotiation. What isn't negotiable are the goals and there is no difference between the Edwards, Clinton, and Obama plan in terms of goals: affordable, subsidized plans open to all with no pre-conditions. He doesn't think mandates are necessary but has acknowledged they might be. He doesn't think single payer is achievable now, but acknowledged he would be for it. So that's where we are. This allows him to place Hillary in a central position in Health Care Reform as a strong advocate for mandates without changing one iota from what he has articulated.

by Piuma on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 11:37:27 AM EST

Thanks for Your Comments (2.00 / 2)

The biggest allure to physicians may well be the single payer approach. Currently physicians contend with a confusing patchwork of payers, all different, and all with one single motive, profit. The savings in paperwork alone would be enormous, not to mention the predictability of revenue streams.

Currently the HMO system takes from both the doctor and the patient, and interferes with that relationship, at a tremendous cost to the entire system, not to mention the capricious provision of care.

Only truly universal single payer health care closes the door on these vultures!

by hypopg on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 11:45:41 AM EST

Re: Thanks for this (none / 0)

What a lot of people who compare the two plans do not realize is that Obama's is a reasonable starting point based on what can be done now. It's an evolutionary process, eventually leading to single payer - the ideal system.

I am in favor of HRC playing a central role in this effort, but what has to be realized is that employers have to get on board as well.

There is no reason that Obama and Clinton cannot come to a starting point they both can understand. What is going to be key for everyone who truly wants this is one thing - it's apparent that the Republicans have ZERO interest in this.

They've had the the better part of 30 years to show what they can do. They reverse the progress of the Clinton years and get us into a needless war.

We are going to have to be relentless in keeping people who represent basic HUMAN goals - healthcare, liveable wages, education - in office. Nothing else will do.

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by LtWorf on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 12:11:52 PM EST
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Here here! He is trying to flirt, but no-can-do! (none / 0)

To late for McSame ver.2008.

Tipped and rec'd!

To kill one person is murder. To kill thousands is foreign policy." - Chinese writer Moh-Tze

by ILean Left on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 12:52:53 PM EST

Re: Fellow Clintonistas Take no Comfort in McCain (none / 0)

winning election by caucus means: it it outgunned?

Welcome to a Landslide without white Working class, Latinos, Women, Seniors and holding-on sweeties

by engels on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 02:20:31 PM EST

Take a Lesson From Tony Soprano (none / 0)

Fogettaboutit!
We lost. Now we can win.
Hey I really, really admire Hillary.
She was my gal. But what's done is done.
Barack isn't exactly chopped liver!

Now let's work on turning the clock forward, getting our kids home and rebuilding the country. I don't care who leads as long as it gets done.

by hypopg on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 02:33:32 PM EST
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