Obama's Accomplishments in 2014

[RobDownSouth]

Nothing "free" about health-care provided in fulfillment of the contractual obligation specified in an employment contract.

"contractual obligations"? El Oh El.

The amount paid out by medicare far exceeds any amount the racist vettebigot might have paid in (thanks in large part to Dubya's unfunded Medicare D drug benefit).

Spin it however you like but Medicare is socialized medicine, which the racist Vettebigot uses, just like #ThosePeople, and he continues to demonize them for availing themselves of the same gummint paid benefit made available to him.

Of course, when he does it, that...That...THAT'S DIFFERENT!

 

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[Adre]

National health care, single payer is a communist idea. See how well it works in Cuba, it's where we're going unless Congress wakes up.

I'm still waiting to hear from a Canadian who hates it. (We're a little more advanced than Cuba in case that slipped by you and your Cold War mentality.)

 

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[Adre]

Canada is paying to take care of 320,000,000 million people, there's a difference,, and people in Canada do complain about and come here for certain kinds of care. Cuba, run by communists, has a disastrous health care system, notwithstanding the propaganda to the contrary. All of this has been supported in posts over the years.

Blah, blah, meanwhile you're well taken care of with your socialized coverage. Hypocrite.

 

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[Que]

Split hairs any way you like, it's socialized medicine. You guys just don't like admitting it, though he's happy to use it while calling other people Communist. (But then he is a moron still fighting a nonexistent Cold War.)

It isn't splitting hairs. Healthcare for those that paid into it, or earned it per contract are not the same things as taxing the general populous and providing something that the recipient neither earned nor contributed to.

But keep repeating the nonsequiter for the left in your totally independent way.

 

[Disgustipated]

Fuck you, I have to follow the law, whether or not. A majority of Americans feel like I do, so sneak off.

You could always move.

 

[Sean]

National health care, single payer is a communist idea. .

No it isn't, you fucking retard.

 

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[Sean]

Like hell it isn't.

Where is it in the Communist Manifesto? And are you saying countries like Switzerland and Israel and Taiwan are communists?

 

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[KingOrfeo]

National health care, single payer is a communist idea.

So what? That would be no argument against it. The Interstate Highway System was a Nazi idea first.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I asked for a list of his accomplishments, not examples of his incompetence or his attacks on the civil society. Tell us how he's benefited America's civil society, not how he's expanded government or wasted the taxpayer's money. Get a grip, toss the folklore.

Let's take these one at a time:

Increased infrastructure spending after years of neglect. http://******/f77aOw

Objections?

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

It's been a plank in the CPUSA platform for a hundred years.

How many CPUSA politicians have been elected to national office?

Would you say more or less CPUSA members than say, known white supremacists?

 

[phrodeau]

Let's take these one at a time:

(Increased infrastructure spending)

Objections?

Why should we repair those Nazi Interstates?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Heh heh heh.

Lookit Comrade Vette squirm around his socialism/communism hypocrisies. Living fat like a hog under all these fully integrated socialist and communist ideas. He's like a bargain-basement version of Eyer with his so-called red-blooded patriotic American convictions.

Squirm like a worm!

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[Adre]

Fuck you, I have to follow the law, whether or not I like it . A majority of Americans feel like I do, so sneak off.

You are well within your rights to reject Medicare and pay for your doctor and hospital visits. We're not stopping you from expressing your hatred for government assisted healthcare.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Here's your problem, vette:

As I said earlier, despite their different contexts, the NYPD’s cold war with de Blasio, the Tea Party movement and the not-entirely-fictional American fascism of “It Can’t Happen Here” all have the same philosophical roots. It’s not just about race, although America’s racial divisions play an inescapable and central role. (In Lewis’ novel, Windrip’s movement seeks to suppress blacks and Jews, and revoke female suffrage.) At root it’s also not about police-state policies and tactics, even if those might seem to be the desired outcome. (Tea Partyers claim to oppose those things, with varying degrees of sincerity — except when Muslims or other varieties of dark-skinned immigrants are involved.) Rather, these worldviews rest on the idea that America is not defined by its democratic institutions, but by a mystical or spiritual essence that cannot be precisely described — but is understood far better by some of its citizens than by others. If those attuned to this patriotic frequency overwhelmingly tend to be white males, that is not evidence of racism (they might say) but of the clarity and selflessness of their political vision.

In this view, Lincoln’s “government of the people, by the people, for the people” takes a distant second place to John Winthrop’s vision of America as a transcendent “city upon a hill.” This vision does not have to be specifically religious or Christian (though it sometimes is) to be infused with a puritanical sense of manifest destiny, and of the unbridgeable gulf between the elect, who perceive the true nature of America, and the damned, who do not. (I would argue that this kind of American exceptionalism is an inherently religious idea — but that’s a topic for another time.) Democracy is only valued insofar as it produces the “correct” results, and comes to be seen as debased and perverted when it does not. So for the committed patriot of the Pat Lynch/Buzz Windrip/Ted Cruz persuasion, only some democratic outcomes are legitimate expressions of “America” (see Bush v. Gore, 2000), only some elected leaders are worthy of respect, and only some exercises of authority require deference.

I’m no defender of the Democratic Party in general or of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama in particular, a pair of Wall Street flunkies and national-security ridealongs who are both to the right of Richard Nixon on most meaningful issues. But the concerted and unceasing campaign to depict both men as criminals and usurpers, whose spurious claims to the White House could magically be undone with a stained cocktail dress or a Kenyan birth certificate, provides one of the clearest manifestations of America’s proto-fascist disorder. The central issue was never whether Clinton should be impeached for lying about a sleazy affair, or whether Obama qualified as a “natural-born citizen.” (Which he probably would have, even had he been born overseas.) Those things were headline-grabbing expedients, symbolic fictions from the Leo Strauss playbook (Benghazi!), meant to stand in for an esoteric truth the benighted public was incapable of grasping: Those guys were not real Americans. The Force was not with them; they had no right to the throne; any method used to defeat them was justified.

 

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[Sean]

It's been a plank in the CPUSA platform for a hundred years.

So what? I'm pretty sure freedom of speech has been a plank in the Republican party for as long, that doesn't mean it was their idea.
National healthcare isn't communist, you fucking retard, it's civilised.

 

[larrycando]

So what? I'm pretty sure freedom of speech has been a plank in the Republican party for as long, that doesn't mean it was their idea.
National healthcare isn't communist, you fucking retard, it's civilised.

By definition the Affordable Health Care Act is a socialist idea. Nothing wrong with providing health care for the general public. When fully implemented, it will be a game changer for this country.

I voted for Obama and proud of his record.

Go Seahawks!