Giving Obama the benefit of the doubt? ...

Based on his choices of people to carry out his vision I wonder that anyone can assume that Obama ever cared about providing health care for all Americans. Certainly Rahm Emmanuel has subverted real changes for health care at every turn. Is Obama so isolated that he doesn't know this? I don't think he is. Is Obama so dense that he fails to understand the art of negotiating from strength? I find that hard to believe. Yet he gave the show away even before he started.

MOORE: And that may not. Well, of course not, because any time you don't fight for the thing you want, any time that you start off compromising, you're never going to get what you want. He started off with a compromise position -- let the private insurance companies still sit at the table, have a public option. He should have started with what he truly believes in, what he believed in, what he said in 2003, a single payer, national health care system, like all other Western countries have. We should have the same thing. [emphasis added]

Now Obama desires that we support him in giving away more of our hard earned cash to another corporate entity; this time the Robber Baron Insurance Industry [even as the Robber Baron Bankers are still rewarding their own incompetence with what Obama so willingly handed over to them]. Really, how could there be so little enthusiasm in supporting Obama's efforts to increase the profits of the murderers in the insurance industry?

A very disappointing side of our so called 'Christian' America ...

Crooks and Liars is having a conversation with Michael Moore.

Comment 365 Michael Moore Says:

George @ 300:

The amazing thing about how our economic system is how expensive it is to be poor. I have been on both sides of the door, and it is really amazing how much more efficient it is to be on the better side. About the only counter example to this are the expensive hotels, which don’t tend to provide free breakfast or phone service.

If you can’t pay your credit card debt, they raise your rates (on everything.) If you don’t have insurance the procedures cost more. If you don’t have transportation be prepared to pay outrageous rates at the inner city store. If you don’t have your own home, you will pay more in rent, and if you can’t afford rent you will pay even more at flop hotels. If you don’t have a bank account, you have to go to a rip-off check cashing place.

Once I retired I relied on catastrophic medical coverage, so I never bothered to turn my bills in to the insurance company. Then my much smarter wife suggested that we do so, and in most cases our bills were halved! One expensive procedure was reduced from somewhere around $5000 to less than $800.

That is the difference between solvancy and bankruptcy for many people.

Let me be blunt. We Americans get some pathological kick out of beating up those who are less fortunate than ourselves. We do indeed punish the poor for being poor. We have structures in place that guarantee that they will never climb out of their poverty. It’s not an accident. And it is a very black mark on our soul.

A very black mark indeed perpetuated by all those wonderful 'Christian' politicians of ours.

A nurse, Micheal Moore, and an ingrate ...

The $12,000 Question

Is it my imagination ...

... or is it Larry King's purpose (see video clip) to inhibit any real discussion between Michael Moore and Sanjay Gupta?