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From the Politico 9/30/08:
RENO, Nev.— Barack Obama on Tuesday stepped up his advocacy for the Bush Administration’s endangered $700 billion bailout plan by making a round of calls to rank-and-file Democrats in the House and casting congressional inaction in dire, real-world terms. He also massaged his pitch, no longer using the word “bailout” to describe the bill.
In a speech laden with warnings about the impact on average voters, Obama made his strongest push yet for the financial package rejected Monday by the House, saying the upheaval was “no longer just a Wall Street crisis – it’s an American crisis, and it’s the American economy that needs this rescue plan.”
Obama is as out of touch with the needs and lives of middle class Americans as McCain. The Demopublicans want us to settle for the less evil of two plutocrats.
I'll wrap up by quoting the most famous gay atheist in US history, James Baldwin.
There is no such thing as the lesser of two evils.
Thanks for doing what you do!
Do you support Barack Obama's push for universal health care, even for gays who have coverage but their lovers don't, and so the lovers go without access to medical care?
Do you agree that if we could get the insurance companies out of the mix (they might just become bankrupt like Wall Street, with everyone's money, and then need a bailout), then getting insurance companies out of the mix and providing care directly would be more efficient?
After all, does having "insurance" really "ensure" you very much of anything, except bureaucracy, aggravation and arguments, when it comes to health care?
If you support universal health care the please post the Afrosphere Action Coalition "National Health Care Now!" widget, which informs and leads your readers to a petition in support of universal health care.
It also shows the insurance companies the "high esteem" we have for them, by proposing a system in which they have no role at all, and never once using the word "insurance" in the entire text. In my opinion, Americans don't want "insurance". They want the assurance that they can access quality medical care when the need it, and they've been told that paying for "insurance" is the only way they can see "assured" of seeing a doctor and getting medicine when the need it.
I would be a rich man if I could find a way to earn thirty cents for every dollar that is spent at American supermarkets. How about "supermarket insurance"? You pay me to "cover you" when you are hungry, and then if I believe you are hungry enough, I will give you permission to go to the supermarket? And for this you pay me thirty cents of every dollar that you otherwise would have spent on food.
Of course it requires an enormous bureaucracy to review each American's decision to go to the supermarket, but that's what I'm hear for! That's why you pay me thirty cents on the dollar for all of the money that is spent on food in America!
If that doesn't make any sense to you at all, then please adopt the Afrosphere Action Coalition's National Health Care Now! EasyWidget that takes you and your readers to the Petition demanding National Health Care Now!
Unfortunately, some few "progressive" whites may be reluctant to support this effort because it is led by Black people whom they don't like. Those "progressives" don't realize that unless everybody works together we are never going to get universal health care in this nation. And so, we progressives will be compelled to break the color line, if only on this issue, whether we like it or not.
When you show your support for national health care right before the election, you are reminding people why it is so important that Barack Obama and not John McCain be elected president. Like the "economy", health care is about 20% of the American economy and it' s really in just as much of a "crisis" as Wall Street. But because the crises in your wallet and in your child's aching tooth don't have any lobbyists in Washington, Wall Street gets a bailout long before your high blood pressure or mammogram do.
Is it early to start worrying about national health care. Well, aren't the lobbyists already paying our representatives in Washington to assure that it never happens? If we want universal health insurance, we'll have to work for it as early and as diligently as the lobbyist who are rallying to oppose it.
Please post a widget leading to the petition.
Ahh. Yes. "plutocrats." That's a word that needs to get more air play... along with "plutocracy."
Libhom, I have to disagree with that, after a reading of the Audacity of Hope. I think Obama knows very well what the deal is.. I've been trying to read objectively, but I will say, he is impressing me on most issues.
I have to disagree with James Baldwin.