Re: this "election"

On Feb 10, 7:02 am, Black Elk <windriver2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Principle wrote:
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:12:20 -0700, Black Elk <windriver2...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

alohacyberian wrote:
Since the bushies are disgraced and out of power.  It appears to me
that the next presidential election will be a fair one.  Since we all
know it's down to 3 people (Hucklebee can give it a rest), I would
like to ask who offers the best solution to the last 7 years of
American voter irresponsibilty.

Personally, I liked McCain until he folded his own principles to be Hw
bush's favorite son.

Obama, can't quite get a handle on him.  He sounds like Jess Jackson
in a white robe.  (can I say that?)

So now it's down to Hillary for me.

She's a successful businuss person.  She hasn't been bought our by her
supporters.  She's got spunk and she's real.

I can see the strings dictating the motions of the othes, but hillary
moves on her own.

Five years ago I would have sworn by McCain, but now I see he is a
grumpy old control freak, with half a brain, unlike bush, who's
running on empty.

You reap what you sow.  McCain, Clinton, Obama.

I'll take Hillary any day ot the week.
From what I have read I don't care for Obama's healthcare platform, it
appears to be a corporate model for privatizing healthcare.

And you think Clinton's somehow isn't? FYI, she is proposing to require
all Americans to BUY health insurance. Guess from whom we are required
to buy this insurance?

<tap, tap, tap>

Time's up. And the answer is...

The CORPROATIONS that run the big insurance companies, of course. She
would require everyone to buy private health insurance.

There are few real differences between Clinton's health care plan and
Obama's. Both mandate purchasing PRIVATE health insurance.

The main difference is Obama would not extend the mandate to those who
can't afford to buy insurance. But OTT, it's pretty much the same.

Either plan will mean a windfall for insurance companies. Neither plan
is anything like a single payer system, the obvious best choice.

That is the frustrating part. Canada with national healthcare has a
booming economy, the U.S. under the neo-fascist leadership of GW Bush
and his cabal has ruined the economy and further weakened healthcare.

Let's hope that at some point we can institute real reform and not just
cosmetic.





While both plans are an improvement in that health insurance will at
least be available to the 50 million uninsured, I'm not sure how I see
*requiring* someone to buy something they can't afford is going to help.

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Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?

http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
© 1999 by the American Psychological Association
December 1999 Vol. 77, No. 6, 1121-1134

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University

ABSTRACT:
...the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile
on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test
performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the
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It's not going to happen until we stand up for ourselves, like
yugoslavia. Time to take to the steets.

I'd love to see the chicken hawks running around in tar and feathers.

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