[Mishmash] Obama? Oh, Please!

[Hugh Gigante]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Flewelling" <kmm at nucleus.com>
To: "Mishmash" <mishmash at mishmash.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Obama? Oh, Please!


> At 07:02 AM 1/25/09, you wrote:
>
>>And we should pay for those things (other peoples healthcare and reduced 
>>taxes and retirees reduced taxes) because?
>>
>> Look, I am now representated by a senator hand picked by an un-elected 
>> governor . . . why not have a bunch of people without experience have 
>> their hands in my pocket?
>
> From the getgo I found it disturbing that Obama claims to be black when in 
> actuality he's a mulatto - he rushed open armed to embrace the heritage 
> and color of a muslim father who abandoned his family when Obama was 
> young - he was brought up by white grandparents because his mother was 
> mentally ill - and suddely he's the first black president of America?   If 
> these facts are correct, doesn't anyone find it disburbing on some level?

Yeah . . . its like my kids with a mother who has Finnish ancestors and a 
father with Italian picking only one . . . kind of insults the other, no?

> As for free health care, lower taxes, etc. - I live in a country that has 
> all these and it is bleeding us dry.  We have one of the largest tax bases 
> in the world and still there's not enough money to go around.  All this 
> sounds good in theory, but it doesn't work - someone pays for all this 
> "free" health care and that's the man on the street.  In this system of 
> free health care, I have a friend diagnosed with lung cancer in November - 
> she has a TENTATIVE date for surgery in February - there's everyone on 
> "free" running to doctors for every ache and pain and no money left to pay 
> for enough hospitals or people to staff them.  And once you're 65, the 
> entire system works on the theory that the sooner you shuffle off this 
> mortal coil and make room for another tax payer, so much the better. 
> This is no "first come first served" system - older people are left to 
> wait for care when younger ones are given priority.

I have British friends who attribute their bad dental condition to the 
British system. But then again some of the most vocal supporters of the 
socialist healthcare systems in Europe do so from a US job with US 
healthcare.
>
> As for diplomatic outreach to the Middle East - the taliban, hamas, etc., 
> want a muslim world - they don't now, nor did they ever, want peace. 
> We've got Liberal (akin to Democrats) politicians here in Canada saying 
> the same thing - time they gave their heads a shake and faced reality - 
> peace is not what the terrorists want.
>

Look, many call Iraq the "bush War" . . . at best it is the "Bush Battle". 
The first battle was at the World Trade Center (the "clinton battle").

While it is very sad having US youth killed in Iraq, even they would agree 
it is better there than here.

Bets on when the first guy released from Gitmo blows something up?

Hugh