tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post6048273696846230977..comments2024-03-25T10:22:04.995-07:00Comments on Ed Gorman's blog: Health reformEd Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-34406604216454838742009-09-16T12:27:31.633-07:002009-09-16T12:27:31.633-07:00It amazes me how some people are actually willing ...It amazes me how some people are actually willing to fight for the right to be gouged by insurance companies. You've got to figure insurance companies are watching that and thinking, "Wow, and here we were thinking maybe our premiums were a little high. These people are begging us to strip them to the bone. Our shareholders will be happy, anyway."Kenneth Mark Hooverhttp://kennethmarkhoover.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-2359520691817702932009-08-21T16:06:05.942-07:002009-08-21T16:06:05.942-07:00I hope you overcome your current health problems. ...I hope you overcome your current health problems. You're an intelligent, passionate writer.Peter L. Winklerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16005846686173676213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-40495502570079618132009-08-21T13:10:02.681-07:002009-08-21T13:10:02.681-07:00I've said this in other places, so I'll ke...I've said this in other places, so I'll keep it brief here:<br /><br />Without the continued existence of the preposterous and outdated Electoral College system, Al Gore wins the 2000 election by 500,000+ votes - and we know about it the same night.<br /><br />As to Obama: if by "in over his head" you mean "too decent a man to do the job", no argument. It may just be that our politics have been in the hands of bastards for so long that nobody else can do it any more. <br /><br />Still, it would be nice to see somebody <i>try</i>...<br /><br />I think I'll take some Covidram and go to bed.mike dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-29084495756782684472009-08-21T07:33:08.975-07:002009-08-21T07:33:08.975-07:00"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the i..."Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." He sure was right about that. I still think most of this has to do with the fact that Obama is black. They just can't or won't deal with it. <br />----------<br />Love your fiction, Ed, and your non-political postings, but when you let loose your leftist viewpoints and include that kind of absurd generalized hyperbole, it's disappointing to see. For the overwhelming -- vastly overwhelming -- majority of those who disagree with Obama's politics and policies, his race has nothing to do with it. By suggesting that it does, you diminish your own argument in the minds of rational-thinking people on both sides of the political landscape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-78178201229084628672009-08-21T07:23:42.590-07:002009-08-21T07:23:42.590-07:00Ed, I'm with Todd on this one. The Democrats ...Ed, I'm with Todd on this one. The Democrats have been shooting themselves in the foot since Ted Kennedy upended Carter. Until those in favor of equal rights for all, national health insurance and getting the hell out of Iraq & Afghanistan pronto start voting for people like Nader, the two major parties will have us by the balls forever.<br /><br />I'd love for someone to explain to me the difference between them since Obama won. They bashed Bush for 8 years (deservedly so), then went right along with his bailout mentality (hell, they embraced it),and whatever happened to the <i>wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time?</i> We're still there (until 2011--a year before the next presidential election--shades of Nixon). <br /><br />We need to vote both parties out of office and that can't happen so long as we worry about the lesser of two evils. Usually it's gotta get worse before it gets better and if that means the Dems blow it yet again, so be it. I'm no longer willing to vote for a party that doesn't have the balls to demand equal rights to gays across the board or stand up for national health insurance. In the end it won't be Republicans who block health reform, it'll be a group of blue dog democrats. Whatever color they come in, they're still democrats blocking what they were voted into office to deliver.<br /><br />Obama needs to hang those bastards out to dry publicly. What's the difference if they lose their seats? They're voting with the Republican ticket anyway.<br /><br />I understand how you feel about Nader, but I agree with Todd, Gore let Saturday Night Live beat him. He changed his tactics week to week and looked dumb for doing so. Bush already looked dumb, but nobody expected it from Gore (what I think turned many independents off).Charlieoperahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876755029099726686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-23407894900797703572009-08-20T21:15:36.782-07:002009-08-20T21:15:36.782-07:00Health care nuts are driving me nuts. I recently ...Health care nuts are driving me nuts. I recently blogged about how mad the whole thing is making me.<br /><br />There is no honest debate going on right now. The argument is bankrupt. People with health care arguing about who gets to have health care.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911230635293326933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-26267550256968093802009-08-20T19:51:58.903-07:002009-08-20T19:51:58.903-07:00Nader didn't stop Gore...Gore stopped Gore, wi...Nader didn't stop Gore...Gore stopped Gore, with a big assist from Sandra Day O'Connor and her fetish for what she chose to see as a Dignified process, vs. an undignified one. I sure as hell wasn't going to vote for one of the most rightwing of Democratic Senators, who had been Clinton's neoliberal buddy in selling the poor down the river with a smile rather than the Reagan/Bush stern face and wagging finger, particularly after he tapped damned near the only Dem Senator to his right (Gore's reinvention as the Savior of the Environment has been pretty much all post-Giving Up Despite Winning).<br /><br />But it sure is important to too many Democrats that somehow Nader "stole" the election, rather than actually looking at who was responsible (and irresponsible) in 2000...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-55432245748242551252009-08-20T19:05:02.741-07:002009-08-20T19:05:02.741-07:00Yup. If you don't agree with Obama, you must b...Yup. If you don't agree with Obama, you must be a racist.Periclesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-33662107892617061402009-08-20T18:54:26.646-07:002009-08-20T18:54:26.646-07:00Todd-we wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq if N...Todd-we wouldn't have gone to war in Iraq if Nader had foregone is vanity run in 2000. Gore would have won and he'd never have invaded Iraq. To me Nader's got a lot of blood on his hands.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36271824.post-2637828699584881852009-08-20T16:01:28.982-07:002009-08-20T16:01:28.982-07:00"On the other hand I'm now convinced that..."On the other hand I'm now convinced that Obama is Jimmy Carter, a slick self-salesman without any true vision or guts."<br /><br />Not quite as Christian nor quite as conservative as Carter, not quite as much a neoliberal as Clinton, but yes, and this has been obvious to me as long as I've been aware of him. I didn't vote for him, even if I did prefer his slickly vague politics somewhat to McCain's (after all the better Democrats inevitably failed, and Clinton was not among those, my vote went with Nader--the Arab in the race, not the best candidate but the one on the ballot with the best platform).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com