Comments on: Stay classy, Cynthia Tucker

By: drjay

drjay — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:22:39 +0000

cnn was basically my only news source for the past week, when i bothered to watch any tv at all and this theme was being expressed there as well-i’m not a believer in any vast conspiracy from either the right or left wing–bu this does appear to be a talking point tactic from the left–who i think are surprised by the strong emotion this, mostly healthcare stuff, seems to be arousing…

By: Doug Deal

Doug Deal — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:53:05 +0000

They are idiots because they are letting themselves be played by the administration to paint the entire opposition as crazies. They are idiots because there is no hope for their plan to succeed. They are idiots because if Obama had an R next to their name and the Democrats were raising this issue, they would be on the other side.

By: GOPGeorgia

GOPGeorgia — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:01:15 +0000

You are throwing the race card just as much as Mathews and Tucker are. You are just playing down the numbers. You can’t prove that a single one of the people showing up at health care forums care one bit what race the President is.

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:12:54 +0000

Hey, I tried to show some love for Cynthia but now she’s in the Dog House.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyduncFpzl4

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:44:54 +0000

Well looks like I “took the bait” with race and politics. DOOOH! But, yeah, there’s some shock value to having a black President, but not as much as some would think. Personally, for example, I think there may be more shock value with a city’s first black Mayor or a State’s first black Governor. It’s a barrier that exists. CM is correct overall, but probably has no basis for her numbers.

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Bill
I’ll have to admit, over in the Paul camp, we’ve had some “strange bedfellows” which also included Keith Olbermann. Looks like “Dubya” caused some strange alliances. In fact, the big concern for a while (out here in the real world) was the possibility of a Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton scenario which, if your an average American, is simply a big slap in the face.

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:24:02 +0000

Do you have some empirical evidence to suggest the idea that birthers are idiots? Because as far as I know, having a particular opinion on an issue doesn’t necessarily meet the qualifications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical

By: Game Fan

Game Fan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:14:00 +0000

Plenty of Constitutionalists showed similar concern for McCain’s eligibility, having been born in Panama. Of course your garden variety CORPORATIST shows no concern whatsoever for the CONSTITUTION. In fact it simply gets in the way many times, for many items on the corporatist agenda. This has led to an interesting development: the RWBTBs (Republicans who bemoan the birthers.) Interesting. Very interesting.

By: Bill Simon

Bill Simon — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:58:16 +0000

I cannot figure out who is the bigger turd, Chris Matthews or Cynthia Tucker.

By: Technocrat

Technocrat — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:27:33 +0000

Since drug companies take your money for their products they have an obligation to be truthful.
Since drug companies take your money and other’s money via Medicare Part D, since drug companies sell to States via Medicaid, since drug companies sell to Military.

Sometimes a temporary dictator does good by jailing a few hundred business executives and shooting a few just for drill.

By: macho

macho — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:49:01 +0000

Why should a drug company be responsible for educating people about vitamin D? You probably think it makes sense for a electric companies to teach conservation and cigarette companies to teach about the dangers of smoking.

By: macho

macho — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:46:09 +0000

So if you goto one of these “townhall” and tell your Congressman you support the administration; everything is cool. But if you goto a “townhall” and voice disproval with something on the administration’s agenda, that will have the biggest impact on our lives since the New Deal, then you hate the President because he is black; makes a lot of sense. Sounds like the Democrats expect gameshow contestants to come to their “townhall” meetings.

By: Technocrat

Technocrat — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:23:49 +0000

“The entire “sick care” industry (including Big Pharma) actually depends on widespread nutritional deficiencies in order to create repeat business. Vitamin D deficiency, of course, figures prominently in this equation: It promotes cancer, bone loss, obesity, depression and heart disease. It’s no coincidence that these are some of the biggest profit earners for drug companies.”………………….
“The sunscreen industry also shares some blame in all this, as it thrives on the silly idea that sunlight is bad for children and that all kids need to be smothered in sunscreen lotions before venturing outdoors. (Of course, they never admit their own sunscreen products are filled with cancer-causing chemicals in the first place…)

Above all, the medical establishment is to blame for vitamin D deficiency. Rather than teaching parents and children about the importance of vitamin D, they seem to have declared a blackout on most useful information about the nutrient, preferring instead to prescribe toxic pharmaceutical drugs to treat the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency. Osteoporosis drugs, in particular, are made virtually obsolete by vitamin D alone. That’s why you don’t see any drug companies talking about vitamin D — it would destroy osteoporosis drug sales!”

By: Rick Day

Rick Day — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:35:36 +0000

I think her number is conservative.

By: macho

macho — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:30:48 +0000

Completely agree with you. This idea that private insurers will be able to “compete” with the taxpayer subsidized federal plan is ludicrous.

By: Doug Deal

Doug Deal — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:21:18 +0000

So I guess it is here that you will pretend that there is not anything “peculiar” about his history. The birthers are idiots, but it is not like he was born to 2 American parents who lived in the US like pretty much every other President in our history.

Be intellectusally lazy and cast insults on people all you want, and let’s be clear this is exactly what you did, but you and your brethern are the only ones breathing race into this.

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:18:47 +0000

You’re entitled to your opinion. I just disagree.

By: Terran1212

Terran1212 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:56:01 +0000

Even most of the other countries that have universal care don’t have nationalized systems, I really doubt it.

By: Terran1212

Terran1212 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:55:17 +0000

It’s pretty obvious why this is the first President ever where there’s a camp of people obsessed with the idea that he’s not born in America…

By: Jason Pye

Jason Pye — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:36:37 +0000

No one is talking about nationalizing health care.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I do believe it’s the end goal. It will incrementally take us towards nationalization.