Obama like George Meade talks a good line but it was Grant that fought the war. When you compare all Presidents to Harry S Truman they all seem secondary. Only history will decide.

With all due respect back to you, this is my blog. I pay for it. That means that I get to choose what the content of it is. If you didn’t like my post, that, with all due respect, is your problem and not mine.

If you don’t like a post, skip it. If that’s not acceptable to you, then feel free to skip my blog altogether.

Eric

I’d hope that whoever’s in office does well (which usually means that they govern in ways that I would hope they would.) I just don’t see this individual (Obama), who was one of the most far leftists when they were in Congress, doing that. I’m also concerned that he wasn’t properly vetted by the media, that he won on a campaign slogan, and that I can’t really point to any accomplishments he had in Washington other than getting elected.

Thank you for keeping it civil.

Eric

No, of course, no attacks – just vigorous disagreement and debate, which is healthy for our republic. I just left my parents’ home – both liberal Democrats and Obama supporters. We agree to disagree.

Best,
RGW

People on this list are smart enough to judge for themselves what the limiting nature of our Founding documents mean, and what sort of government they were intended to create.

If you really want to live under a socialized medical system, then it blows my simple mind away.

be well

tps

Ted: If you truly believe that freedom and equality cannot be compatible, how on earth do you read or teach the Declaration of Independence, Gettysburg Address, or recite the Pledge of Allegiance without wincing? Do you tell your students to ignore them on the grounds that they, and thus the foundations of our republic, are worthless? “Once the government controls it, costs and resources become more important than your individual health.” And when private companies control something, the opposite is the case? Again, for every anecdote of someone having trouble with one of the socialized health care systems, there is one of someone who put off treatment or were denied treatment due a lack of insurance or the road blocks insurers put up to care. (Again, we get back to the “we pay people to cover us when we are sick when their economic interests demand they resist providing the coverage we are paying them to provide.”) For every person who comes here from Canada for care, there is an American who crosses the border to get health care needs met that are not by our system. We are talking about apples and trees. There are bad apples (anecdotes) on every tree (the system). The question is the health of the overall tree, and I yet to hear a counter to facts that are indicative of the respective merits of the systems. Namely, that we spend far more per capita on health care and get worse results than almost every other modern society. That is a systemic issue (the tree), not mere anecdote (the individual apple).