Clinton didn't get impeached because of what he did with his cigar but rather he was impeached for lying about what he did with his cigar. There is one more detail in that Presidents can lie all they want, they just can't do it in sworn testimony. That detail is what gets Obama off the hook as he has lied relentlessly but never under oath.
Cadillac Man and I were talking about Obama's administration and he's rather more sympathetic toward Obama than I. While the Affordable Care Act is, in my view, a good thing, it doesn't go anywhere near far enough toward balancing his repeated crimes against humanity in drone killing, failing to close Guantanamo and keeping people there without cause, extraordinary curtailments of anyone's right to privacy, etc, etc. Obama was in charge when Occupy Wall Street was crushed more relentlessly than could ever have been hoped by the head-cracking Chicago cops from the Days of Rage in the sixties.
The Affordable Care Act is a good thing but it's not a great thing and specifically because there is no public option. The biggest symptom of the inadequacy of the American medical system is still untreated. Without medical insurance, the poor have no alternative other than going to an Emergency Room for care as that's the only place they won't get turned away without money. That's an incredibly wasteful way to provide doctoring to anyone and yet it is still not fixed.
In trying to attack the Affordable Care Act, people sometimes say it is socialised medicine but this is utter rubbish from people who don't even know what the word means. The ACA is not even close to socialised medicine under which care programs are administered entirely by government organisations, medical staff are on government salaries, etc, etc. The ACA is instead managed by one of the most crooked industries in the U.S.: health insurance corporations.
People have complained about being forced to buy medical insurance but that's a lot of rubbish hype as it's not the government forcing the need for medical insurance when fear of death does a handy job of it. They also scream about being forced to buy insurance from this company or that one but Americans have typically had very little choice in insurance carriers anyway. For most there would be a selection provided by your employment and you took whatever they had. There was no choice. In fact it appears there is more choice with the ACA than there was previously, not less.
In my view, none of what the Affordable Care Act gives or does comes anywhere close to absolving Obama of his failures. None of the banksters responsible for the financial collapse were prosecuted. Heroin production in Afghanistan has skyrocketed. The rate of drone killing was vastly higher under Obama than even the previous worst President of all time: George Bush. And all of it was for nothing as there is more terrorism around the world now than there ever was.
Cadillac Man and I were talking about Obama's administration and he's rather more sympathetic toward Obama than I. While the Affordable Care Act is, in my view, a good thing, it doesn't go anywhere near far enough toward balancing his repeated crimes against humanity in drone killing, failing to close Guantanamo and keeping people there without cause, extraordinary curtailments of anyone's right to privacy, etc, etc. Obama was in charge when Occupy Wall Street was crushed more relentlessly than could ever have been hoped by the head-cracking Chicago cops from the Days of Rage in the sixties.
The Affordable Care Act is a good thing but it's not a great thing and specifically because there is no public option. The biggest symptom of the inadequacy of the American medical system is still untreated. Without medical insurance, the poor have no alternative other than going to an Emergency Room for care as that's the only place they won't get turned away without money. That's an incredibly wasteful way to provide doctoring to anyone and yet it is still not fixed.
In trying to attack the Affordable Care Act, people sometimes say it is socialised medicine but this is utter rubbish from people who don't even know what the word means. The ACA is not even close to socialised medicine under which care programs are administered entirely by government organisations, medical staff are on government salaries, etc, etc. The ACA is instead managed by one of the most crooked industries in the U.S.: health insurance corporations.
People have complained about being forced to buy medical insurance but that's a lot of rubbish hype as it's not the government forcing the need for medical insurance when fear of death does a handy job of it. They also scream about being forced to buy insurance from this company or that one but Americans have typically had very little choice in insurance carriers anyway. For most there would be a selection provided by your employment and you took whatever they had. There was no choice. In fact it appears there is more choice with the ACA than there was previously, not less.
In my view, none of what the Affordable Care Act gives or does comes anywhere close to absolving Obama of his failures. None of the banksters responsible for the financial collapse were prosecuted. Heroin production in Afghanistan has skyrocketed. The rate of drone killing was vastly higher under Obama than even the previous worst President of all time: George Bush. And all of it was for nothing as there is more terrorism around the world now than there ever was.
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