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[crazynezumi]

WHew.

Who are you voting for?  Not that I plan to follow everyone else's vote, but in light of the upcoming primaries, I'm going to post perspectives on each candidate.

When I have the time, it'd be fun to make a sonnet about the candidates.

Upcoming post on issue topics

I mean, this whole fiasco is really humorous in a way, if it didn't have to do

Comments

[thetruebard]

True universal health care would be using tax money to provide everybody with free health care. Like, you never pay for anything, you just go, because taxes have already taken care of medical expenses for the entire country. I've said in the past I'd happily pay twice as much in taxes each month just to know me and anybody else could get health care--free--at any time.

Hillary's plan simply makes you get health insurance. This seriously lowers the cost of your health care, but as Obama points out, this means if you don't get health insurance you'll have to be punished or garnished so people don't just opt out of the plan.

I don't care much for Obama's plan either, given that I'm all for a socialized health care system in this country, but at least I couldn't be fined for not buying a health insurance plan if his went through.

Who am I to judge Hillary's emotions? A media consumer. The impression I have gotten from watching her speak in public is that she is a smooth operator, just as much a politician as her husband. I will grant, re-watching the moment where she broke down on Youtube, that it seems genuine. The fact she tried to return to that well after Obama took the lead in the polls makes me question the whole shebang.

You're ridiculously partisan/non-impartial for a Journalism major

Most Journalism majors are extremely partisan. It's perfectly fine to personally partisan, provided you're objective in the coverage you publish. And while I certainly act like a hyperbolic asshole when posting on livejournal, ever a font of political enlightenment if the Internet has one, I am perfectly willing to listen to the other side of things as well. It's just that Op-Ed--particularly drunk op-ed--is not objective journalism.

I'm sure she wants to do well for this country. But she won't admit wrongdoing with Iraq, her "Universal Health Care" basically just makes everybody use the system we currently have, she won't write up a timetable for withdrawal, she will unify the Republican ticket against us, she refuses to speak to "problem states" like Iran (because that worked so well during the Cold War!!!)...

There, I just named a bunch of problems I have with her that don't involve the "ice queen" stereotype.

[thetruebard]

Who doesn't want health care? Presidential candidacy shouldn't be about whether or not you think someone's crying for real or not. What's her relationship with Iraq anyway? What the hell do you want out of her, a penitance and ten Hail Marys for some random statement (note: WORDS, not action) that she may or may not have made about Iraq? Iraq happened during the Bush administration. By "problem states" you mean a nicer term for "axis of evil"? "HEY ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG, IRAN ISN'T A PROBLEM STATE! ADMIT YOUR WRONGDOING!" Seriously, this is ridiculous.

[thetruebard]

What's the "Well" she returned to?

If there was less government spending on healthcare, there would be more funds reallocated to more constructive policies. I read that Obama's rejection of an individual mandate would make it more difficult to reform the system: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080205/cm_huffpost/085144

[thetruebard]

The Bible annoys me in its black and white portrayal of good and evil. " 22Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart"

Evil desires of youth? Excuse me, what's wrong with living life?

I disagree with it villainizing LGBT too why am I doing work I'm ideologically opposed to

[thetruebard]

I, uh...agree with you?