This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for this country that we love.
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that...
this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless;
this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal;
this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.
This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals.
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Obama 332
McCain 206
Obama 54%
McCain 44%
@ Jim,
Did you go through every state to get those numbers?
Vince:
Yes. It's not too hard:
http://www.270towin.com/
To help you out, choose 2004 as the year and change the map as you wish.
This is the moment:
we begin to ration healthcare.
we begin to replace personal responsibility with government regulation.
we begin to pay higher taxes (at least those of us who work for a living).
we cede world primacy for the next great nation, China.
I guess every great nation must rise and FALL….
This is not 1988 and Obama is not Dukakis.
Despite all its problems, the Clinton years demonstrated that a democratic administration (and a republican congress) can balance the budget, expand investment in research and technology, and stimulate a strong economy.
Specific points...
Since so many can't afford healthcare including people "streamlined" by outsourcing companies, aren't we already rationing healthcare? Take a look at your premiums, you are already paying for the healthcare of people who can't afford it.
Government regulation? like terror watchlists and phone tapping?
Considering wages have gone up slower than inflation in last eight years, what was the value of the tax cuts for Amgen's CEO?
Four more years of a republican administration will guarantee your prediction about China, seen the value of the US dollar lately?
Isn't it time for us to have a government that we are proud of, and not one we just accept.
Look, Bush isn't my guy and neither is McCain.... Obama is going to sweep the election (a solid 310+ electoral) and the Democrats are going to hold both sides of the legislator....
I've always been worried about creating more bureaucracy in attempt to fix a problem. For example the IRS got a budget increase to collect taxes owed… they ended up spending more on enforcement than they collected.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/04/14/ST2008041403087.html
It seems to me that the theory that the government can do better that the private sector isn’t true. I’m aware that one can sight examples on both sides of this argument, but how are you going to restrain healthcare cost by providing healthcare… insuring the uninsured doesn’t control cost. Regulating what is covered and who should get what does, and that my friend is something I never want to see.
PEOPLE SHOULD BE TREATED AS INDIVIDUALS, NOT STATISTICS. I see no way Obama can control the cost of healthcare from the Oval Office. If you think so… I think you should come to California where it’s legal to smoke that stuff.
Talk to people from England, Canada, or even Germany for that matter… and I think you’ll see where Obama will take us. My guess is that you don’t want that, maybe I’m wrong, but actually talk with people with nationalized/socialized healthcare.
The government will not fix your problems. Change starts with “YOU”. When people change the government follows. The Civil Rights Movement came from great citizens, not from the government. The thing that makes America great is the people that live here and the can-do attitude in which they possess. The government is nothing more that a barometer of the people, try not to forget it… We lead. Obama follows. I lead my own life, not the life dictated to me from the Oval Office.
Morning Edition, December 6, 2007 ·
"When you talk about Europe, and you talk about a British system where the hospitals are owned by the government and the doctors are directly employed by the government, then you might say that's socialized medicine," Oberlander says.
But that is different from what most single-payer proposals would do. "There, you would essentially have government financing, just like you do with Medicare, but you would continue to have private practicing physicians and private hospitals," Oberlander says.
None of the leading Democratic candidates, however, has proposed anything like a single-payer system, much less a fully government-run program like Britain's National Health Service.
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