Less from this President. He has said he has a Health Plan but refuses to show it because he has none and he continually defends it. It's just surreal.

Yes. I would like to hear more from the President. He has been criticized from the start of his term, and hasn't been given a chance. We're all back seat drivers riding on hype. - There is a lot of misinformation out there. It's pretty confusing for most of us. - I heard the President on a night show last night, and if what is says is true, the new Health Plan has a lot to be worked out, but everyone will have coverage, including those who still want their private health plans.

Less!!!

I am tired of listing to his political B.S.

On September 25, a gathering of 50,000 Muslims are expected at the Capitol in Washington for some hours of prayer.
Obama was not in Washington during the tax day march. He was not in Washington during the Sept 12 March. He ignored the American National Day of Prayer.
Let us wait with baited breath to see if he shows up for the Muslim day of prayer.

American people put us in same Lying Govt tail as the last president. We need a President that is fair minded , Tough of illegals make Join U.S Military when caught, penalizing welfare that don't wanna work $ 100 a month , for every month not working. everyone gets there own social security accounts , medical/ insurance Policies.kids that decide to drop out of school must do community service clean road sides , river fronts , clean streams, until back in school and receive a deploma.

More of Obama??? We've already had a serious case of Obama overload, while he has been auditioning for a spot as a game show host, all over the liberal media since his 8 month debut as president has been an unequivical disaster.

"OutFoxed": How Rupert Murdoch Is Destroying American Journalism
A review of Robert Greenwald's new documentary investigating the Fox News Channel. / July 10, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/5wwwr
As "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore's powerful indictment of the Bush Administration, is influencing millions of Americans in the heartland, "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," a devastating new documentary that exposes Bush's biggest cheerleader opens this week in New York and San Francisco and will be featured in thousands of house parties across the country, sponsored by MoveOn.org on Sunday, July 18th.

"Outfoxed" demonstrates in painful detail how one media empire, making full use of the public airwaves, can reject any semblance of fairness or perspective, and serve as the mouthpiece of right-wing conservatives, fully relishing its role. Media critic Jeffrey Chester describes the Fox News operation most succinctly in the film: "Fox News Channel is a 24/7 commercial for the conservatives and the Republican Party."
http://www.alternet.org/story/19199/

LESS!!!

Time for Obama to stop campaigning.

Although I don't think he can stop himself ... he believes he's a celebrity; I don't think he knows what it means to be President.

You know we should have LESS if even liberal RNN is asking the question!

(Did anyone else notice that when asked about Obama Caspian still makes comments about Bush? Good grief: July 10, 2004! Poor, poor Caspian, he's living in a time warp.)

Maggie, you keep those blinders on. Look forward, yesterday doesn't matter. The past never influences the future, and what we do today means nothing.

"Comment from: Carol Nissem [Visitor]
American people put us in same Lying Govt tail as the last president. We need a President that is fair minded , Tough of illegals make Join U.S Military when caught, penalizing welfare that don't wanna work $ 100 a month , for every month not working. everyone gets there own social security accounts , medical/ insurance Policies.kids that decide to drop out of school must do community service clean road sides , river fronts , clean streams, until back in school and receive a deploma."

REALLY!!

Butttt, Kathy, it doesn't matter which way I look because the messiah now resides in the White House so for the CHANGE YOU WANT we only need to look to him.

"Did anyone else notice that when asked about Obama Caspian....."

Sure we noticed Maggie Mama. Caspian is in left time denial as usual and he longs for the days when Republicans were behind the eight ball after eight full years of holding the Whitehouse. He can't believe that it's over for the left after only eight months of their re-doing America into the image of the old Soviet Union and defensively as vulnerable as a wet paper bag.

What is Single-Payer Healthcare? / http://tinyurl.com/9hayzp
Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. It refers to one entity acting as administrator, or “payer.” In the case of healthcare, a single-payer system would be setup such that one entity—a government run organization—would collect all healthcare fees, and pay out all healthcare costs.
In the current US system, there are literally tens of thousands of different healthcare organizations—HMOs, billing agencies, etc. By having so many different payers of healthcare fees, there is an enormous amount of administrative waste generated in the system. (Just imagine how complex billing must be in a doctor’s office, when each insurance company requires a different form to be completed, has a different billing system, different billing contacts and phone numbers—it’s very confusing.)
In a single-payer system, all hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers would bill one entity for their services. This alone reduces administrative waste greatly, and saves money, which can be used to provide care and insurance to those who currently don’t have it. / http://www.healthcare-now.org/hr-676/whats-single-payer/

The United States National Health Care Act, H.R. 676
Brief Summary of the Legislation / http://tinyurl.com/dhvvmw
The United States National Health Care Act establishes a unique American national universal health insurance program. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered healthcare system that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all U.S. residents, and all residents living in U.S. territories. The goal of the legislation is to ensure that all Americans will have access, guaranteed by law, to the highest quality and most cost effective healthcare services regardless of their employment, income, or healthcare status. With over 45-75 million uninsured Americans, and another 50 million who are under- insured, the time has come to change our inefficient and costly fragmented non-healthcare system.
http://www.healthcare-now.org/hr-676/

Why the Public Option is Doomed To Fail, and What Can Be Done About It.
09/23/2009 / http://tinyurl.com/lzj8r2
The generous, expansive public option on the lips of Congressional progressives, which would be open to all and compete to lower insurance prices is largely imaginary, while the president's stingy, divisive and means-tested version is all too real. But what about the third version of the public option? What is the Congressional Progressive Caucus doing to promote it, and to allow states to pursue single payer on their own?
To begin with, there are no less than three versions of the public option.
Some highly profitable and job creating industries simply cannot be reformed. Slavery and child labor cannot not be made humane and reasonable, not with kind and solicitous masters or school and limited hours for the kids. Allowing souless and greedy corporations to collect a toll for standing between patients and doctors is immoral, uneconomical, and just plain wrong. But it's not illegal. Not in the US, at any rate, not yet.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/why-public-option-doomed-fail-and-what-can-be-done-about-it

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/342659/Bernanke-Is-Wrong!-The-Economy-Is-Getting-Worse-Not-Better-Schiff-Says

The rules murdering our troops:

September 24, 2009

When enemy action kills our troops, it's unfortu nate. When our own moral fecklessness murders those in uniform, it's unforgivable.

In Afghanistan, our leaders are complicit in the death of each soldier, Marine or Navy corpsman who falls because politically correct rules of engagement shield our enemies.

Mission-focused, but morally oblivious, Gen. Stan McChrystal conformed to the Obama Way of War by imposing rules of engagement that could have been concocted by Code Pink:

* Unless our troops in combat are absolutely certain that no civilians are present, they're denied artillery or air support.

* If any civilians appear where we meet the Taliban, our troops are to "break contact" -- to retreat.

These ROE are a cave-in to the Taliban's shameless propaganda campaign that claimed innocents were massacred every time our aircraft appeared overhead. (Afghan President Mohammed Karzai and our establishment media backed the terrorists.)

The Taliban's goal was to level the playing field -- to deny our troops their technological edge. Our enemies more than succeeded.

And what has our concern for the lives of Taliban sympathizers accomplished? The Taliban now make damned sure that civilians are present whenever they conduct an ambush or operation.

So they attack -- and we quit the fight, lugging our dead and wounded back to base.

We've been through this b.s. before. In Iraq, we wanted to show respect to our enemies, so the generals announced early on that we wouldn't enter mosques. The result? Hundreds of mosques became terrorist safe houses, bomb factories and weapons caches.

Why is this so hard to figure out? We tell our enemies we won't attack X. So they exploit X. Who wouldn't?

It isn't just that war is hell. It's that war must be hell, otherwise why would the enemy ever quit?

This week's rumblings from the White House suggest that we may, at last, see a revised strategy that concentrates on killing our deadliest enemies -- but I'll believe it when I see the rounds go down-range.

Meanwhile, our troops die because our leaders are moral cowards.

Over the decades, political correctness insinuated itself into the ranks of our "Washington player" generals and admirals. We now have four-stars who believe that improving our enemies' self-esteem is a crucial wartime goal.

And the Army published its disastrous Counterinsurgency Manual a few years back -- doctrine written by military intellectuals who, instead of listening to Infantry squad leaders, made a show of consulting "peace advocates" and "humanitarian workers."

The result was a manual based on a few heavily edited case studies "proving" that the key to success in fighting terrorists is to hand out soccer balls to worm-eaten children. The doctrine ignored the brutal lessons of 3,000 years of history -- because history isn't politically correct (it shows, relentlessly, that the only effective way to fight faith-fueled insurgents is with fire and sword).

The New York Times lavished praise on the manual. What does that tell you?

A few senior officers continue to push me to "lay off" the Counterinsurgency Manual. Sorry, but I'm more concerned about supporting the youngest private on patrol than I am with the reputation of any general.

As a real general put it a century ago, "The purpose of an Army is to fight." And the purpose of going to war is to win (that dirty word). It's not to sacrifice our own troops to make sad-sack do-gooders back home feel good.

We need to recognize that true morality lies in backing our troops, not in letting them die for whacko theories.

The next time you read about the death of a soldier or Marine in Afghanistan, don't just blame the Taliban. Blame the generals and politicians who sent them to war, then took away their weapons.