As the corporate owned media sleeps, and sleeps with John McBush, great and fearless Americans like Elizabeth Edwards are left to do their work.
Normally journalists point out hypocrisy especially when it comes from the lips of presidential candidates. But not in 2008--at least not as it concerns their darling du jour, John McBush.
This is because the media is totally pre-occupied with Hillary's poor memory of events on the tarmack in Bosnia, and Reverend Wright's sermons. So Elizabeth Edwards--God bless her--is picking up the slack, and doing their work.
The sad wrestling match between Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and their surrogates is allowing lots of important things to fall through the cracks. As the warring camps square off against each other, the real enemy, Mr. McFourMoreYears, gets a free pass to waltz through the gardens of presidential deceit undisturbed and untouched.
Thankfully, we have intrepid warriors like Elizabeth Edwards, to call out and point out that Mr. McSame is a damn, fucking hypocrite lying bastard.
Mr. McFourMoreYears is also a cancer survivor who, if elected, would seek to deny the American people the healthare that's kept him alive.
Last week, Elizabeth gave the keynote address to the Association of Health Care Journalists, she had some choice words for Mr. McSame and his "healthcare plan".
She might have called her talk, It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid. But she didn't because she is far more gracious than I am.
Here's a snippet which I found on YouTube, unfortunately, it doesn't contain her remarks about McSame and his hypocrisy.
Here's an article from the Los Angeles Times on what Elizabeth said on the subject of healthcare for John McBush, members of Congress, etc. and healthcare for the rest of us.
McCain's health plan fails her test:
Neither Elizabeth Edwards, whose cancer is incurable, nor the presumptive Republican presidential nominee would be covered by his policy, she asserts.
Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former Democratic presidential contender John Edwards, said she and John McCain have one thing in common: "Neither one of us would be covered by his health policy."
Edwards lodged her criticism of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's proposal Saturday at the annual meeting of the Assn. of Health Care Journalists.
Under McCain's plan, insurance companies "wouldn't have to cover preexisting conditions like melanoma and breast cancer," she said.
Let's focus for a moment on pre-existing conditions. Mr. McSame has government healthcare, his recurring melanoma is covered and treated thanks to the generosity of the taxpayers. But the nonsense "plan" he is proposing if God forbid he were elected, allows insurers to continue to deny any of us with pre-exisiting conditions the healthcare which has kept him alive.
McCain's plan focuses on offering new tax breaks for individuals who buy their own health insurance. But critics say the Arizona senator's proposal avoids giving insurers requirements on whom they must cover and how much they may charge.
His plan would make it difficult for people with preexisting conditions, but who aren't covered by a government- or job-sponsored plan, to buy individual coverage, Edwards said.
Cancer survivors are routinely denied insurance when they try to purchase it as individuals, health experts say.
It's all so nauseating that I don't want to quote any more, but I do suggest you read the whole piece and what Elizabeth had to say about the man who may be the next president.
What follows might make you even more ill about our dismal possible future.
Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health care system in the world (45% believe the U.S. has the best system; 39% believe other countries have better systems; 15% don't know or refused to answer) and that there is a significant divide along party lines. Nearly seven-in-ten Republicans (68%) believe the U.S. health care system is the best in the world, compared to just three in ten (32%) Democrats and four in ten (40%) Independents who feel the same way.
The stakes couldn't be any higher.
I'll leave you with some food for thought, which I'm sure will aggravate many of you.
Yes, I agree, mandates are at best questionable--both plans are flawed, and the only possible solution is single-payer.
That said, Elizabeth Edwards appears to favor the Clinton Health Plan.
She declined Saturday to make an endorsement in the presidential race. But Edwards said she favored Hillary Rodham Clinton's healthcare plan over Barack Obama's.
"Sen. Clinton's plan is a great plan" that closely resembles John Edwards' proposal, she said. Clinton's plan mandates that every American be insured. Elizabeth Edwards said only universal healthcare would resolve one of the problems plaguing the healthcare system -- its soaring cost.
