{"id":595,"date":"2008-02-07T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=595"},"modified":"2008-02-07T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T19:25:00","slug":"mccain-obama-dedicated-to-our-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"McCain &#038; Obama dedicated to our destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=black><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">http:\/\/opensourceactivist.org\/2008\/02\/06\/bill-to-improve-health-care-in-mexico\/#more-30 <br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Bill to<br \/>\nimprove health care\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6in Mexico!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">February<br \/>\n6th, 2008 \u00c2\u00b7 <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ngtvt_posts[30] = {url: \"http%3A%2F%2Fopensourceactivist.org%2F2008%2F02%2F06%2Fbill-to-improve-health-care-in-mexico%2F\", title: \"Bill%20to%20improve%20health%20care&#8230%3Bin%20Mexico!\", category: \"corpocracy\", desc: 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health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters.<br \/>\nToo many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to<br \/>\nprovide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear<br \/>\nthat an illness might leave them destitute. Too many Americans spend years<br \/>\nsacrificing to pay skyrocketing premiums only to discover that, when the need<br \/>\narises, their policies offer protections that are next to worthless.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Most of us agree that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply<br \/>\nnot right that so many Americans, sincerely trying their best to provide for<br \/>\ntheir families, are at the mercy of a phalanx of greedy insurance companies,<br \/>\nmedical malpractice lawyers, health care corporations, and other profiteers<br \/>\nthat have used decades of influence in Washington to institutionalize their<br \/>\nchomp hold on the public jugular.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">What would Americans think, then, of<br \/>\na member of Congress who introduced legislation, not to improve health care in<br \/>\nthe United States, but to improve health care in Mexico?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Insane? Drunk? Unworthy of public<br \/>\noffice?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">What would Americans think, then, of<br \/>\na bill introduced in Congress that required federal agencies to come up with a<br \/>\nplan, not to expand health coverage in the United States, but to expand health<br \/>\ncoverage in Mexico?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Impossible? Unthinkable? Wildly<br \/>\nirresponsible?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">What would Americans think, then, of<br \/>\nthe motives of a senator, who not only introduced a bill to improve Mexico\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<br \/>\nhealth care system and extend coverage to a growing population of 120 million<br \/>\npeople, but gave health insurance companies the right to help devise the plan?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Blatantly corrupt? Grossly<br \/>\nindifferent to the well-being of the American people? Downright treasonous? <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Unbelievable as it may seem, the<br \/>\nSecure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 contained a provision giving<br \/>\ninsurance companies the right to help devise a plan for extending US health<br \/>\ncare to Mexico (<a href=\"http:\/\/opensourceactivist.org\/content\/legislation\/S1033\/text.php#sec1004\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sec. 1004. BINATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH<br \/>\nINFRASTRUCTURE AND HEALTH INSURANCE<\/span><\/a>). <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Even more unbelievable, the senator<br \/>\nwho sponsored the bill is not on the verge of being thrown out of office for<br \/>\nthis odious piece of legislation. No, the senator who introduced the bill,<br \/>\nSenator John McCain of Arizona, is on the verge of locking up the Republican<br \/>\nnomination to be our next president.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Damn! How come you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know that <em>before<\/em><br \/>\nyou voted for John McCain on Tuesday, you ask?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been watching the<br \/>\nall-day-every-day TV news coverage of the primaries. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been reading your local<br \/>\nnewspaper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daily coverage of the races for the parties\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 nominations. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You are an above-average-informed<br \/>\nvoter.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">You know that <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: bold;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">large<br \/>\nmajorities of young people and black people support Barack Obama,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">a<br \/>\nmajority of white women over the age of 40 support Hillary Clinton,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">a<br \/>\nmajority of Christian evangelicals support Mike Huckabee,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">John<br \/>\nMcCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Republican supporters are moderates,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Barack<br \/>\nObama has doubled his support among southern white males since South Carolina,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Mitt<br \/>\nRomney has financed much of his own campaign,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Iowa<br \/>\nis lily-white,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Fox<br \/>\nNews cable television didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have enough room in its studio to include<br \/>\nRepublican candidate Ron Paul in a debate between the Republican<br \/>\ncandidates it televised,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Republicans<br \/>\nhope Hillary wins,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">McCain<br \/>\nis the only Republican who can win in November, and everyone, even<br \/>\nDemocrats, respects his history as a POW,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Rudy<br \/>\nGiuliani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strategy to skip the first few primaries and focus on Florida<br \/>\nwas a bad one,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Oprah<br \/>\nWinfrey supports Barack Obama, and not just because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s African-American,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Arnold<br \/>\nSchwarzenegger supports John McCain, but his wife supports Barack Obama,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Robert<br \/>\nDeNiro supports Barack Obama because Obama makes him &#8220;believe,&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Ron<br \/>\nPaul raised a record amount of money one day a couple of months ago,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">large<br \/>\nmajorities of Latinos support Hillary Clinton,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Mitt<br \/>\nRomney unhiply riffed on &#8220;Who Let the Dogs Out,&#8221; and<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">the<br \/>\ntop vote-getting position for an American presidential candidate this year<br \/>\nis to be for &#8220;change.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">But you <em>didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/em> know that the<br \/>\nonly clear front-runner in the race to be our next president proposed, in the<br \/>\nlast session of congress, a bi-national health care system to be devised by<br \/>\ninsurance companies. <em>To be devised by insurance companies<\/em>, <em>for crying<br \/>\nout loud<\/em>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Eight years of George W. Bush, Karl<br \/>\nRove, and the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/04\/30\/AR2005043001147_3.html\" title=\"Washington Post, April 30, 2004, Untangling a Lobbyist's Stake in a Casino Fleet\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">GOP stalwart<\/span><\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jack Abramoff, have <a href=\"http:\/\/projectusa.org\/ezine\/2005\/04-28-wsj_burns_gop_delay.php\" title=\"WSJ wing of GOP shoots self in foot; Dems sieze opportunity to call for stricter gun control\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">left the Republican Party in such a tattered mess<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nthat its future is in doubt. But (and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll know this if you are a<br \/>\nwell-informed voter), anti-Bush Republicans are supporting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6John McCain!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. Maybe we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re too stupid<br \/>\nto have a democracy.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><font size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\">Oh, and, by the way, all you Barack<br \/>\nObama supporters\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbefore you start feeling all superior: while no one can deny<br \/>\nhow exceedingly important it is to elect a president who supports<br \/>\nchange\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially one that has the ability to make Robert DeNiro <em>believe<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere<br \/>\nmay be one characteristic Senator Obama possesses even more salient, if you can<br \/>\nimagine, than the incidental fact of his father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s skin color: Barack Obama<br \/>\nco-sponsored John McCain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health care for Mexico legislation<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"3\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/opensourceactivist.org\/2008\/02\/06\/bill-to-improve-health-care-in-mexico\/#more-30 Bill to improve health care\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6in Mexico! February 6th, 2008 \u00c2\u00b7 The health care mess in the United States is a top concern of voters. Too many Americans find that, despite their best efforts, they are unable to provide quality health care for their families. Too many Americans live in fear that an illness might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain &#038; Obama dedicated to our destruction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presidential-candidates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}