Reply #31: She will unveil a UNIVERSAL health plan next month [View All]

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Universal health care is also a black-and-white vote. One senator's vote on a 77-23 resolution makes no difference; a president leaving at least 15 million Americans uninsured does.

In your book. Obama supporters think only their standards, tailor-made for Obama (notice all the votes deemed major are the ones Obama never had to cast a vote on?), are valid. Others think funding the war, voting against K/F, opposing Murtha, financing the surge, etc. matter.

==does one play chicken over our troops with an insane president? While I think this catastrophe should have been defunded, it's not crystal clear to me.==

Ask Obama. He voted against funding when running for prez but never could bring himself to do it from 2005-2007 (he voted to finance the surge).

==he's the only one that's not obviously bad news.==

Only because you dismiss all the contrary evidence that he is not what you "hope" he is. Ask Wall Street (guess who is #1 there?). Ask the banking industry (isn't the bankruptcy bill a big one for you?). Guess who their favorite is? Ask CEOs who named him their favorite Democratic candidate. Or look at corporate America's "tort reform" bill that * and the Republicans passed in 2005. Obama voted for it along with Holy Joe, Nelson, Bayh, and other DLC luminaries; Clinton against it (along with Durbin, Feingold, Harkin, Kennedy, Kerry, and other progressives). No Republican voted against it. Look at other segments of corporate America. Or just look at his platform, which is identical to Hillary's. :)