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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Obama worries the lefties, who think he's too interested in appealing to independents and Republicans.
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They're really stupid enough to see the difference between a sales pitch and his actual voting record? Or are they so ideological they can't abide getting the best Dem candidate into office by bullshitting Independent and moderate Republican swing voters?
My guess is the rabid left is most upset by Obama not because they think he'll be a centrist if elected, but because his election would prove the country is trending centrist. The Jesus crazies on the Right have always known they were a minority and would only get their views into the political debate by manipulating the political system. These idiot Lefties really believe there's a left-leaning "progressive" majority in the country. They actually think the country is turning quasi-socialist.
Peripherally related rant here:
The funniest thing about these soft socialists is that if they get enacted their current marquis issue, universal health care, it will draw the brightest line between haves and have nots in the history of the country. All the best talent in medicine will follow the market forces and service the people who can afford it.
In theory, I agree with universal health care, as a moral issue, but another more important moral issue - allowing docs to have freedom to practice where they want and control their economic destinies - trumps it. What is the Left going to do? Force docs to work for government money? Tell the insurers they can't offer insurance packages to those who can afford it to stop the insurers, well-off consumers and profit-oriented docs from developing a whole different tier of health care service which would suck up all the best talent in medicine? In the realm of services, particularly something like health care, collectivist = substandard. What the govt gives at C+ quality the private sector always delivers at an A level.*
And who will John Edwards sue? There isn't any universal health care coming without some sort of tort immunity or govt-backed slush fund which would pay out severely statutorily capped awards. And Uncle Sam's a bitch to litigate against. He gets extra time to answer complaints and motions and he has all those pesky sovereign immunity defenses.
*With the exception of Halliburton and Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan.
