At the Foothills of the Smokey Mountains, Obama Assails McCain Attacks

Ted....

I'm assuming that you're talking about this article?

"Unhealthy Solutions: Private Insurance, High Costs and the Denial of Care"

Excellent reading, looks like I'll be spending some time there and getting acquainted with what they have written.

May I take a moment and recommend that anyone concerned with the future of our healthcare head on over to MULTINATIONAL MONITOR and do a little reading...it's only a suggestion.

A THANK YOU goes out to Ted for his recommendation.

As for the Health-Care plan comparison between O. and Mc., I would recommend everyone goes to "MULTINATIONAL MONITOR" which is published by the Not-For-Profit organization. It can be better to rely on the field's experts rather than voicing-up our own opinions.

McCain said that he hates war but wasn't going to wave a white flag of surrender. If we did that, then we may as well give up America and our freedom.I feel that McCain is the better man for this job of president. He has more experience. What kind of experience does Obama have except talking? You talk of the lesser evil, well, I feel that McCain is the lesser evil. I don't care for either person, but I'm picking McCain. Obama sounds to much like Hitler.

Okay, points take.

So I take it you'd rather then be involved in a war we'll never see the end of? Because the last time I checked, before our economy had gone south of the toilet the majority of the country, Republicans as well as Democrats had grown sick and tired of this contrived war all brought about by one man and last I heard McCain was more than happy to remain there unless he's said something that I'm not aware of. At least with Obama we have some hope of finally seeing an end in Iraq.

I've got news for you...if McCain does get elected you're not going to be very happy with the healthplan you think you're going to get with him as President. I'd rather have the lesser of two evils and considering what we've gotten from our dictator over the last eight years I'm surprised that anyone would be voting for McCain. But hey, you're entitled to your vote.

All of you better hope that this so called bail-out plan works and works fast or healthplans will be the last thing you'll have to worry about.

Obama is only getting the stones thrown back at him that his campaign and the democrats started throwing six weeks ago when John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate! The democrats started this war! People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones! They will get the stones thrown right back at them and their glass house will shatter around them!

Hansi: Obama is not so smart! He only THINKS he's smart! The fact that he's Harvard educated doesn't mean a thing to me! I know many people who didn't go to college at all and are smarter than he is! Barack Obama is just a fast talking con man who goes around making promises that he knows he can't keep! He has a lot of people fooled, like you, but not me. I see him for what he really is!

Okay so I was a little off on my response on healthcare. I still think McCain's plan is better and I do believe that we will be taxed out the rear but, I think more so on Obama's health plan. I need more than just basic healthcare. I want to be able to choose the plan I want and need to have.
I also feel that Sarah Palin will fight to help the middle class.

Oh, I was a Democrat but I'm voting for McCain.

McCain/Palin 2008

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

This is for "Hansi" and "me":

Do you think that Obama is going to give you free health insurance?? Or McCain for that matter? Nothing is free or cheap anymore. Everyone is going to be taxed out the butt for all of it in the very end. Then everyone will wonder 'where the heck did my money go?'
AND in that case, I would rather choose my own health insurance. Like one of you said 'not everyone's health problems are the same'. Some people have special Doctors that they see that does not come under "basic healthcare".
I, for one, like McCains health plan better than Obama's. AND I WAS A DEMOCRAT. NOT ANYMORE.

truthbetold......

I'm sorry, my post wasn't meant for you....it was meant for "me".

You of course were correct with your post!!

Take care and apologies...Hansi

truthbetold....you wrote this in your post:

"People need to pay more attention to what is being said or you might regret who you vote for." Although it may have been well intentioned you're wrong. Something I'm seeing a lot of coming from the Republicans....

Mr. McCain (I have to say it that way...I have been censored now twice by someone on this blog who has that power to do so but doesn't have the decency to e-mail me telling me so) isn't going to give you $5,000.00 for healthcare. He wants to give you a CREDIT....A big difference between the two. Here is just something that I pulled from somewhere, kind of what you did but incorrectly. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, there is just so much out there that is being said by so many people it could take years to go through.

"Let's start with the one hard proposal McCain has made: he would tax employer-sponsored health insurance and create new tax credits--$5000 for a family and $2500 for an individual--for people who buy their own insurance. This means that workers would have to pay taxes on the value of health benefits they received from employers. This is explicitly an attempt to kill the existing system of employer-provided care by dramatically increasing taxes on workers.

How would this work out for the typical worker? Consider this information from the most recent Kaiser Family Foundation study of health care costs:

In 2007, for a family the average total premium for a health care plan was $12,106, with $8824 paid by the employer. Let's say the McCain plan is enacted. What would happen to that average family if the employer continued to provide coverage (Scenario 1)? For a married couple filing jointly with income $63K-128K, the marginal tax rate is 25%, so they would face a tax increase of $2406 (25% of $8824).

But of course the intent of the McCain plan is to kill the employer-provided system. So let's say the McCain program is adopted and your employer drops your family's coverage (Scenario 2). What would happen? You would now have to foot the complete $12,106 bill for coverage, a $8825 increase over the employee-portion you're currently paying. This would be offset by a $5000 tax credit. So net, you would end up paying $3325 ($8825-$5000) more for your health care."

See how things can be taken out of context. Could you imagine how much money we're talking about if he wanted to give $5,000.00 to married couples and $2,500.00 to singles.

Obama/Biden 2008

To older woman for change: McCain is wanting to give $5,000 healthcare to all families, not to companies. You, among others, are obviously not paying that much attention to what he is saying. His healthcare plans are 100% better than Obamas healthcare plans. With Obama's plan you WON'T be able to choose what kind you want to have; it will just be the basics. With McCain's plan you will be able to choose the kind of health insurance you want or need. Not everyone's health is the same, so you would want to choose which would benefit you better.
Sarah Palin is of Middle class, just like all of us. Their income last year was under $167,000 and the year before that was under $125,000. So yes she is out to help the middle class people unlike Obama. Obama's family income is at about $400,000or more. THAT is NOT middle class. That is rich. People need to pay more attention to what is being said or you might regret who you vote for. As for medicare or medicaid, I heard that Obama is the one who wants to cut that. Obama wants to "raise taxes on companies/peopl who make over $200 or &250 thousand. Well, the ones who may make that might be just barely getting there and they will lay off people to make up for it. That will make the economy worse, not better. Obama is just a better speaker and that is all people hear. I believe that McCain/Palin really care about the people and America. Obama is just Obama; always wanting more to benefit himself.

Obama is attacking McCain's character because he has no good solutions to offer the American people.
He has hurt his chances by being involved with Ayers and is desperately trying to ignore that fact
and so is fighting dirty now.
Barack Obama, a true american hater and liar, is thinking of himself first and is already planning on what he will do for himself with our money.
True christian and faithful people will be stupid to vote for Obama who is for raising taxes on everything to benefit himself.

Barack Hussein Obama actively sought and received the stamp of approval of a Marxist third party that operated briefly in Chicago between 1992 and 1998.

The New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials -- most often Democrats. The New Party's short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.

Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America and the militant organization ACORN. The party's Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

I feel sorry for the lowly Republicans and the Christian hypocrites that are holding on for some sort of miracle from the old fart and the mouthpiece in pumps.

They are like fish out of water; flopping around on land using smear tactics to try and discredit Obama. They've got nothing else and besides, it's what they do best!

carlyonsue....the Democrats won't have to wait until the next morning to know that Obama has been elected President. What is it that bothers you most about Obama? Is it the fact that he's a Democrat and is much smarter than anything the Republicans could come up with? Or, is it the fact that he's a Democrat, an African American and is much smarter than anything the Republicans could come up with? Obama must really frighten the Republicans...finally we have someone who will stand up to the Republican B.S. machine who will not cower in the corner with his tail between his legs. Only people who are in fear of losing start resorting to cowardly smear tactics and the Republicans have the perfect mouthpiece for it...

I can hardly wait until the morning after the election when all of you Obama supporters will be crying in your Cheerios! You think that Obama has this election tied up and won already but I think you are in for a awful shock when the votes start rolling in on election night! We Christian conservatives are a very large, formidable group and we will be voting in record numbers this time! We are not about to let the most unqualified, inexperienced, liberal, far left senator in the US Senate be elected president!

McSame is attacking Obama's character because he has no solutions to offer the American people.
He has completely wrecked his chances by putting Barbie Doll Palin on his ticket. McCain is desperate
and so is fighting dirty now. This is exactly what Bush did to him in 2000. It won't work this time.

John mccain a true american traitor putting himself first before his own country.
ask american pows they have nothing but having shame and be offended by him while knowing that he was cracked and
gave up his country to communists playing in movie against his own country.
american enemy may want this coward and crook as president but real american heroes not.
true christian and faithful person will be stupid to vote for mccheater who has admitted adultery, since voting for him as same as endorsing adultery.

CAREFUL PALIN WHEN YOU ATTACK, YOU BETTER INCLUDE HUBBY !!!! YOU LIED ON OBAMA, BUT THE COMMENTS ON YOUR HUBBY IS THE TRUTH. THE POT LYING ON THE KETTLE AND KETTLE COMING BACK WITH A BITE OF THE TRUTH !!!!
TODD PALIN, THE FIRST DUDE IS APART OF AN TERRORIST PARTY. SARAH PALIN THE DENSE LIAR AND IDIOT.
Todd Palin was apart of this Alaskan Independence Party up until 2008. Sarah Palin recorded a video showing Todd being apart of this group this year. During the 1970s, Vogler founded the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) and Alaskans For Independence. He also claimed to have organized the meeting which led to the formation of the Libertarian Party in Alaska. The AIP and AFI, as Vogler explained, were intended to function as strictly separate entities — AIP primarily to explore whether the 1956 vote by Alaskans authorizing statehood was legal, and AFI primarily to actively pursue secession for Alaska from the United States.
The Alaskan Independence Party quotes Vogler as stating "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."[1] [2]
Todd Palin first registered to vote in 1989. From 1995 to 2002 he was registered to vote as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.[11] In late August 2008, The Politico reported that Palin was registered to vote as an independent ("undeclared"), and had never registered as a Republican.[12]

FRESH OFF THE PRESS AND THE TRUTH !!!
TODD PALIN, THE FIRST DUDE IS APART OF AN TERRORIST PARTY. SARAH PALIN THE DENSE LIAR AND IDIOT.
Todd Palin was apart of this Alaskan Independence Party up until 2008. Sarah Palin recorded a video showing Todd being apart of this group this year. During the 1970s, Vogler founded the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP) and Alaskans For Independence. He also claimed to have organized the meeting which led to the formation of the Libertarian Party in Alaska. The AIP and AFI, as Vogler explained, were intended to function as strictly separate entities — AIP primarily to explore whether the 1956 vote by Alaskans authorizing statehood was legal, and AFI primarily to actively pursue secession for Alaska from the United States.
The Alaskan Independence Party quotes Vogler as stating "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."[1] [2]
Todd Palin first registered to vote in 1989. From 1995 to 2002 he was registered to vote as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party.[11] In late August 2008, The Politico reported that Palin was registered to vote as an independent ("undeclared"), and had never registered as a Republican.[12]