Letters to the Editor
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Compelling gamemanship Amity!!
Surely now you can come up with the electoral math that shows a decisive victory for the Nobama over John McCain - y'know the stuff that will decided the election that so far, none of yer all obnoxi cohorts and trolls have yet to produce.
See that's the problem with you poor dimwits. The election ain't going to be decided on the talkboard of a leftie-lefty website. George Soros learned that very expensively in 2004.
Do catch up.
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The Audacity of Hypocrisy
certainly something the Nobama's demonstrate, but this is on the man himself.
www.audacityofhypocrisy.com
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To ljwalker:
On the fact check email you mention in your 7:46:
Part of it was originally from Dick Morris. Some idiot named Jaben plagiarized it and posted here at salon here:
http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2008/02/06/clinton/view/index16.html
This person actually got a red star on this plagiarized BS but it is not surprising to see that this apples and oranges comparison of Clinton's senate record to Obama's has been all over the internet.
People are just sponges for misinformation, especially if it props up their favorite -- even if they get their info from plagiarizing Republican trolls.
Jaben still has the red star, but it seems he/she has retired in shame.
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I don't understand...
...why we're still talking about her. How is Hillary still relevant? Shall we next have a conversation about Huckabee's tax plan? Or debate Chris Dodd's foreign policies?
Answer: who cares? The Democratic race is over. On to November.
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The Past is a Bad Place to Live
It's dead there. It already happened. Even if it was wonderful, it's already been done. The past only traps us and keeps us from what's known in some circles as progress, as in the old southwestern American Indian saying: "If we don't turn around we might just get where we're going." The future lies ahead. Only in places like the Capitol Beltway can one keep going and wind up at the same spot over and over. Our nation (as many DC residents can attest) has been trapped inside the beltway thinking just as everything has, for 44 years, been defined as "inside the Beltway."
Choosing the past as a guide to the future is, once again, driving with one's eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror. Sooner or later a tree, a cliff or a body of water is going to show up in front of us. Hell, it already has!
Freedom from the past, "Freedom from the Known" (Krishnamurti), is the only way we can truly move forward. It's great to know where we've been, where we come from, but it's where we are and where we're headed which are real. The past is a dream, and we are awake and blindfolded.
This compaign strategy, along with other similarly desperate measures (such as Ms. Clinton labeling Obama a Liberal for God's sake, and charging that he wants people to "stop voting") foretell that inevitable sudden stop at the end of a free fall descent.
This is becoming difficult to watch. Public self-destruction usually is.
We'll soon enough learn how much truth there is to the "Pennsylvania-Alabama Border" aphorism.
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Ha!
Read here where chhabili claims that it is all but traitorous to the Democratic Party to make fun of Obama:
http://letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/04/02/factcheck_obama/view/index.html
Oh dear. Obama supporters can call Hillary cold, calculating, witch, bitch, -- any insult that they like, but no one is supposed to stick a pin in the Obama balloon. No freedom of speech for Clinton supporters.
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beppe78 on why Clinton is still relevant
I don't understand...
...why we're still talking about her. How is Hillary still relevant? Shall we next have a conversation about Huckabee's tax plan? Or debate Chris Dodd's foreign policies?
Obviously Clinton's situation is not the same as Dodd's or Huckabee's. Neither of the latter could possibly win their party's nomination, no matter what, for mathematical reasons — whereas Clinton still could. Comparing them is disingenuous at best.
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Obama's record on medical malpractice
Last night, I read an excerpt from an Atlantic article which upset me quite a lot. But first, the back story:
In 2005, several weeks before Katrina hit, my husband underwent emergency surgery in a small town in northern IL and came within hours of dying from horribly botched colon surgery (which may well have been unnecessary). Though a surgeon at UW Hospital in Madison WI thankfully subsequently saved his life through a series of ghastly surgeries stretching over five months, my husband ended up with chronic health problems. When we returned New Orleans in mid-January '06, he had to take early retirement from his job as a New Orleans firefighter after 26 years, in the process losing a huge part of his pension. We then had to move out of New Orleans, having lost three-quarters of our income.
The IL surgeon and hospital (which it turns out had a notorious reputation) were horribly inept and I wanted them stopped, so I tried hard to find a plaintiff attorney to take his case. Though plaintiffs need to meet only one and we met all five criteria for medical malpractice in IL, I could find only one attorney who would even talk to us. Though the attorney admitted ours was pretty much a slam dunk, he eventually declined because of considerable up-front costs, which we couldn't afford.
Two and a half years down the road, my husband just recently had what will hopefully be his last major surgery stemming from this ungodly mess.
Would you like to know who has helped put untold numbers of Illinois medical malpractice plaintiffs in this bind? Read the following, please:
"LIMITING NON-ECONOMIC DAMAGES:
These seemingly unusual votes wherein Obama aligns himself with Republican Party interests aren't new. While in the Illinois Senate, Obama voted to limit the recovery that victims of medical malpractice could obtain through the courts. Capping non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases means a victim cannot fully recover for pain and suffering or for punitive damages. Moreover, it ignored that courts were already empowered to adjust awards when appropriate, and that the Illinois Supreme Court had previously ruled such limits on tort reform violated the state constitution.
In the US Senate, Obama continued interfering with patients' full recovery for tortious conduct. He was a sponsor of the National Medical Error Disclosure and Compensation Act of 2005. The bill requires hospitals to disclose errors to patients and has a mechanism whereby disclosure, coupled with apologies, is rewarded by limiting patients' economic recovery. Rather than simply mandating disclosure, Obama's solution is to trade what should be mandated for something that should never be given away: namely, full recovery for the injured patient."