Fine, but that still doesn't change the fact that Obama's health care plan sucks rocks. He deliberately crippled it in a way that makes it unworkable in order to be able to attack Edwards and Hillary for having a plan for universal health care that would actually be, well, universal. He's being dishonest there, and worst yet, he *knows* he is being dishonest, because he has the exact same health care economist advising his campaign who also advised Edwards and Hillary who told him that his health plan couldn't work, would result in a health funding death spiral and lots of dead people if passed as-is. He didn't care. Any lie is okay if it'll get him votes, apparently.
I'll vote for the man because he's intelligent and competent (unlike the incumbent), but I'll vote for him knowing he's just another sleazy politician. Really, I don't see why people worship him. He's a politician. He's a successful politician, meaning he's a damned good liar, because people won't vote for someone who tells them the truth. Given the current state of politics in America that doesn't mean he'd be a bad President, but it doesn't make him anything other than a lying politician either -- and frankly, I don't worship liars, no matter how necessary the lies may be in order to get a politician elected these days.
Okay, he makes good speech. So effin' what. I remember another politician who made good speech. Who said he would unite America. Who said we needed a humble foreign policy without all this crap of invading other nations and stuff. Who said he was compassionate. Yeah, I'm talking about Dear Leader in 2000. Purty speeches don't mean crap, in the end.
- Badtux the Practical Penguin
I know Obama will disappoint. I know he's a dirty, lying politician. He's no Russ Fiengold, that's for sure. I hate to say I have a litmus test, but the war vote is really important to me. I know it's possible, if he was in the Senate, he would have been swayed to the yes column, but he wasn't, and he came out against it when the political expedient thing to do was be for it.
[and he make pretty speeches!]
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