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September 20, 2004

MOCKing the MOB

Having Mondays off, I get to enjoy and catch up on reading, some housework, listening to the radio and surfing the web. I got to listen to Dennis Prager live this morning (and where Charles Johnson was interviewed) and now on Michael Medved I'm learning about a new group, Mothers Opposed to Bush. Do visit the site and read the "list" of their points on which oppose Bush. It's actually amusing.

We deserve a president who protects us with vision and through intelligent strategies aimed directly at combating terrorism, rather than through a misguided war that has caused America to lose respect and support around the world.
Translation: Saddam should have been left in power. Infact, one of the speakers on Medved's show just said that Saddam would probably been dead in ten or fifteen years any way so there was no reason to go there.
We deserve a president who will not gamble away our savings on tax cuts for the wealthy and an unjustified war that is leaving our descendants with an overwhelming deficit.
Translation: F**k the "rich." Again, I heard one of these women actually say "the rich should pay a bigger share." Medved asked them several times (upon the claim of one of the women that she was a "fiscal conservative") "Should the government consume more, less or the same percentage of the total economy?" They refused to answer the question.
We deserve a president who manages a budget that leaves no child behind, hungry, uneducated or impoverished.
Translation: "To each according to his need, from each according to his ability."
We deserve a president who believes sick people need equal access to quality healthcare, and that benefits for the elderly should not dwindle.
Translation: Healthcare is a right.

Oh my. I gotta stop for now. This is just too rich a dessert.

This Mother Opposing Characterless Kerry will return to [leftist]MOB in the next post.

Posted by Darleen at September 20, 2004 01:20 PM

Comments

Darleen,

Linked here from A Small Victory after reading your comments there.

Just wanted to give you a big thumb's up. Your responses to BB et al were comprehensive and very persuasive to anyone not completely in love with their own point of view.

Keep up the fine work. :)

Posted by: krakatoa at September 20, 2004 07:54 PM

Darleen, I'm not sure why you have to "translate" the statements, but at least you quoted them.

You know, if getting Saddam out was the point, we could have done it without this war, without spending $200 billion, without getting our troops killed. For example, through black ops assasination, for one. We're not that incompetent, you know.

But then, Halliburton wouldn't have gotten our money. And the PNAC guys wouldn't have established our military in the mid-East like they've been wanting to do for so long.

And Bush wouldn't have a war to use as an excuse to let the government peek through our library records and tap our phones.

I sure wouldn't mind having health care considered a right, but you can always stick with HMO's and inflated drug prices if you want.

Posted by: Binacontenda at September 22, 2004 08:20 PM

Scott

You are assuming we haven't been trying since at least 1998 (Iraq Liberation Act signed by Billy Jeff) to "black ops" Saddam. I'm sure you remember his extraordinary security measures, including never sleeping in the same palace more than one night, at least two or three "doubles", always carrying his own sidearm, and his ruthless murder of anyone he even suspected of not being quite right with him.

It's kinda like chiding FDR for going to war with Germany (which never attacked us, and probably never would have, Hitler just wanted Europe, kinda like the Islamists) when he could have just had Hitler assassinated. Or bombed.

And, and healthcare is no more a "right" than food, or a house, or a care or an X-box. One does not have a "right" to a thing that must be provided at another's expense. My right to my life doesn't create a responsibility for YOU to keep me alive. And you have no "right" to a thing that creates a blank check on my abilities.

Once you get beyond this fundamental issue, then you can address the real problems in why the healthcare industry is in the state it is in, and propose real, workable solutions.

Posted by: Darleen at September 23, 2004 06:31 PM