We've ALL got to be on top of our game now.

[Ken Burch]

The GOP/Talk Radio hate/smear/lie machine is at full throttle.

The MSM is following the machine's orders blindly.

The next two to three weeks will be where we live or die.

All of us have to be in the fight, heart and soul.

Where there's a lie, we have to silence it.

Where there's a smear, we have to discredit it.

Where there's a bully on the stump or the airwaves, we have to stand up to her or him.

The country and the world are depending on us.

This time, we have to make sure that every second, every minute, every hour, we fight the monster.

And we have to make sure our party's "leaders" don't once again go into their familiar comfy defensive crouch.

It's on us.

We have to say, with deed, with word, with heart and soul

"Not This Time"!
"NOT This Time!"
"NOT THIS TIME!"

[Eric J in MN]

1. To use HTML at DU, we need to use brackets...

...instead of "<" and ">."

[Maccagirl]

2. And on November 4-we have to vote.

That is the only concrete way to make a difference.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You have said it so damn eloquently!

K&R

:patriot:

[BlueIdaho]

4. Agreed.

NOW can we start attacking their presidential candidate instead of their diversion?

Its About

The Economy

The War

Heathcare

Energy Independence

Civil Liberties

Hope

Change

Leadership

[FreakinDJ]

5. Healthcare ???

McCain wants to Tax Healthcare Benefits?

Some one just alerted me to this so I looked it up

Source : The New England Journal of Medicine

McCain and Obama Plans for U.S. Health Care Reform

Its centerpiece is a change in the tax treatment of health insurance. Currently, workers do not pay taxes on health insurance premiums paid by their employers.

Nobody knows how effective repealing the tax exclusion would be in controlling costs, but if it turns out not to be a magic bullet, the plan lacks other mechanisms for reliably slowing spending. Prevention, better care for chronic conditions, and enhanced competition represent aspirations rather than concrete policies for controlling costs.

It would deregulate the insurance market (Geez - deregulation has worked out so well in the S&L, Banking and Mortgage markets)

The McCain plan could consequently trigger a move from comprehensive insurance toward thinner coverage policies that shift costs onto sicker patients. Moreover, some employers, particularly smaller businesses, might stop offering insurance if the tax benefits of employer-sponsored insurance were eliminated. As a result, some currently insured workers could lose coverage.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/8/781