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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 01:50 AM
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Sick Bastards (Mike Schmuckabee gets spanked - a good read)
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All of them, every single one of them, are like a house that has already burned down, according to Mike Huckabee and the sick bastards who cheered his comments. All of them, every single one of them, are not worthy of health insurance because they had the misfortune of getting sick before they got insurance. All of them, every single one of them, therefore, are not worthy of health care in any real form, unless, of course, they are wealthy and able to afford the staggering cost of ill health in America.

All of them, in short, every single one of them, can basically just go die in Mike Huckabee's world. They are not worthy of coverage, treatment or consideration. The five diseases I listed account for well over a third of the American population, and if Mike Huckabee or someone who agrees with him somehow becomes president someday, those millions of people should just dig their own graves and lie down in them.

Yeah, that's why I'm not polite to these people. My wife has multiple sclerosis, and Mr. Huckabee this weekend compared her to a burned-down house. My wife is a vibrant, active woman who deals with a terrible, terrifying disease that costs upwards of $50,000 a year to treat. Thankfully, my wife was already insured through work when she was diagnosed, but there are many thousands of people out there with MS who have no insurance, or who won't have insurance when they get diagnosed. If Huckabee has his way, people with pre-existing conditions will be treated as burned-down houses and essentially left to die.

To hear a man who gets treated like a legitimate voice in American politics basically consign my wife and millions of other Americans to suffering and death is to hear nothing more or less than flat-out hate speech from a presidential candidate. What Mike Huckabee suggested is tantamount to eugenics, to the extermination of "weaker" people simply because they are ill.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 01:52 AM
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1. Kinky.
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:01 AM
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2. K&R
That's a powerful rebuttal! :herocks:
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HillbillyBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-23-10 02:26 AM
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3. delete,, i should not be writing at this hour.
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