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To: JDN who wrote (8195)9/3/2007 7:12:39 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25737
 
It's called "blame the messenger," a basic strategy of the coward to blame the one who warns us... in 1938, Winston Churchill's political status was very much like Bush's today... Churchill was considered a nut job and a laughing stock for trying to warn Europe about hitler...

I find it interesting that the liberals don't blame clinton for refusing to take bin laden when he had THREE opportunities to get him, the Sudanese government offered him up on a silver platter three times, but clinton was too busy in the Oval Office with monica lewinski to pay attention the our national interests... but these same liberals now blame Bush for not being able to find bin laden hiding like a rat in the mountains, how illogical and silly...<g>

Grub 8200...

GZ



To: JDN who wrote (8195)9/3/2007 7:29:15 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25737
 
John Edwards' Universal Health Care Plan Would Make Regular Checkups Mandatory
Monday , September 03, 2007

TIPTON, Iowa

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

"It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system, you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK."

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.

Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

"The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death," he said.

The former North Carolina senator said all presidential candidates talking about health care "ought to be asked one question: Does your plan cover every single American?"

"Because if it doesn't they should be made to explain what child, what woman, what man in America is not worthy of health care," he said. "Because in my view, everybody is worth health care."

Edwards said his plan would cost up to $120 billion a year, a cost he proposes covering by ending President Bush's tax cuts to people who make more than $200,000 per year.

Edwards, who has been criticized by some for calling on Americans to be willing to give up their SUVs while driving one, acknowledged Sunday that he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacificia, which he said he has had for years.

"I think all of us have to move, have to make progress," he said. "I'm not holyier-than-thou about this. ... I'm like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction."

foxnews.com

GZ



To: JDN who wrote (8195)9/5/2007 12:17:46 AM
From: RMF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 25737
 
Yeah, I agree about an "uninformed" electorate. How else could George W. win 2 terms?

I don't doubt that it takes very little to AMAZE a small parochial mind like yours...