You choose to cite the odd and rare occurence of a man dying in the ER waiting for a bed in Canada, to compare with the US where millions of Americans have no health insurance and are not waiting for a bed, but are turned away from a bed because they cannot affoard medical care.

You are going to compare the quality of American health care, which studies show, that despit costing multiple times more, still has poorer peformance than Canadian as well as other social health care programs.

You are going to compare people selling their homes (if the bank hasn’t yet foreclosed) so they can pay for a required operation or procedure.

Don’t believe the hype. Social health care, while not perfect, is far superior to private health care which provides little or no security to the average person. Take a look around the world. Every other developed nation has social health care…..America is the only one without. An average person is entitled to fuller health care in Cuba than in America. Look beyond your borders. Look beyond your media. CNN is not the be all and end all of news.

it went down this way
1. bush makes war, no facts
2. removes police/military infrastructure, doesnt want old regime
3. war movement collapses
4. Bush, on his knees, no makes deal to preseve legacy (yah, right!)
5. Patreus invites local talke with…who?…those Bush forced out of the police/miliary infrastructure.

WIN???…we bring back those we fought against because we are losing, and call it a win, as the terrorism slows…BECAUSE they are running the show again…can anyone say….DDDDUUUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!

She is playing high school debate tactics in the auditorium with Katy Couric, who is having a hard time avoiding showing disdain in her face.

If I were the Rep party, I would find a way to cancel the debate with Biden (which I think they already did, but voters did not buy into it, so McCain will show up in Ol’ Miss with lipstick and egg on his face). It is one thing to be “freshman” and another entirely to have the appearance of attempting to bamboozle voters with sophomoric, insulting, poorly contrived strategies, comments and formulations. Did she think these up in the car on the way over?

This is not about Sarah Palin, but the condition of America, and having people in place to lead knowledgably and remain steadfast at the helm. Nevermind how she would respond to Putin, how would she respond/collaberate the those on the Banking and Finance committee handling the congressional talks with Wall Street…seriously…try to picture that. Barney Frank (committee chair) would thank her, and shut the door in her face, not wasting crucial time on “lipstick, shoes and Quale-esque moments” of importence.

It’s been ten minutes since I watched and I’m STILL uncomfortable.

How can you get behind that? There’s enough chance, even if minute, that McCain won’t live through his first term, that you have to consider the possibility of this woman meeting and negotiating with the world’s leaders. “Um, yea, I’ll get back to ya!”

Oh…my…gawd!!

I was optimistic that although Sarah Palin lacked any formal education or apparent exposure to broad national or international issues, that she would be able to speak coherently on those topics. Instead, after viewing her interviews, I was chilled to the core and afraid for America. Palin’s interviews made is abundantly apparent that not only did she lack any view of her own on the topic, but that she was able to do little more than repeat talking points.

Perhaps there is some merit to Typical Republican’s assertion that someone “who was planning on making a living by announcing semi-pro hockey scores for a small town sports program [should] start calling the shots around here,” but do you honestly think it’s Palin who is drafting her talking points? She can’t answer simple questions posed by Couric; how can we expect her to “call the shots” when she lacks a rudimentary understanding of the issues?

The reason that experience matters is that time generally yields wisdom with which a candidate will draw on in making decisions, but experience is not the only way that a good leader makes decisions. Obama may lack McCain’s experience, but no one can argue that he doesn’t understand the issues. Likewise, after seeing her interviews, no one can argue (convincingly) that Sarah Palin does.

I hate these fancy Harvard Law School educated liberal know-it-alls. They are always paying attention to the issues for years and then say what they think is the “best” plan.

It’s about time that we got someone with a community college education, who was planning on making a living by announcing semi-pro hockey scores for a small town sports program to start calling the shots around here.

Even Pelosi would be a better choice as being one heartbeat away from the president than Palin. You may not like her, shoot, I don’t like her, but she knows the issues, has equated herself well in head to head battles with republicans, she has corraled the far left of her party, and she can handle any interview thrown her way.

With that argument you are now official grasping at straws

I second the poster who resents the people who are voting for Palin because she is “just like me”. First with GW and now with Palin, anti-”elitism” is really anti-intellectualism. Too many Americans are so arrogant and self-centered that every one of their attributes must be elevated into a virtue, while every quality they lack is demoted to a vice. As Bill Maher said, “Barack Obama can’t help it if he’s a magna cum laude Harvard grad and you’re a Wal-Mart shopper who resurfaces driveways with your brother-in-law.”

I tried, I really tried to identify with and understand “values voters” for a while. I thought Mike Huckabee spoke eloquently on life issues and the second amendment. But they went with Palin because they want to practice the politics of resentment, cultural class warfare. It is base political calculus; it is easier to appeal to people’s irrational instincts than their rational faculties. My hope is that the narcissism of the typical American voter that leads them to seriously consider Palin also leads them to consider that, in the end, it does benefit them directly to have someone competent at the helm. I think declining poll numbers for McCain and favorability ratings for Palin are indicative of a slow and steady shift

That said, I might be inclined to feel sorry for her if she didn’t support shooting defenseless animals from airplanes for fun.