It's Over, Right? Okay, sorta.
Right out of the chute, Hillary won hands-down for having the better sense of humor and maybe she should get herself a real job, like on Saturday Night Live! Obama was always a gentlemen displaying his respectful side, right down to helping his elder in and out of her chair at debates. (It made Elvis king didn't it?)
Hillary committed to modern scientific progress by endorsing ethical embryonic stem cell research. Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer, brain trauma, and the like have no political agenda. That devastation strikes across party lines. It is likely that even some people on the far right pray that the long-snubbed research will be revived with adequate government funding to leave the legacy of cure to their children and grandchildren.
The ideology of ethical reform by Obama had an airy ring. A google-like internet search engine so that Americans can discover how their tax dollars have been spent struck some people as missing the mark. Generally speaking, finding out how money is spent after the fact isn't the problem. Good leadership to determine how to spend is on target.
Economic purview by Obama focused on capping loan interest rates for overreaching financial institutions. He also urged reform of bankruptcy laws to protect families in medical need. Johnny Come Lately seems to have missed the boat here. The bankruptcy code was drastically (almost traumatically) overhauled in September 2005 and frankly, medical needs families deserve protection designed to help them before winding up in a bankruptcy crisis.
Health care plans by both candidates carried haunting uncertainties. Among other things, Hillary suggested that small businesses might carry the load. In truth, small businesses are strapped to keep doors open. Some employment income for families, even without fringe benefits like health care, is decisively better than not having a job or having to live on government subsidies. Her plan would give small business a tax credit. Theoretically it works out fine but cash flow is an actual daily concern and how a small business keeps going until it receives the tax credit (no matter how big it may be some day) wasn't in her plan.
Requiring Americans to purchase insurance based on a percentage of their income sounds similar to the existing Medicare program. So similar in fact that Hillary proposed that the common Joe should have the option to be covered by Medicare. That image is luring until the reality of the medicare bureaucracy is appreciated. Nevertheless, at least Hillary was grabbling with a difficulty she had first recognized and intended to work toward resolving.
Obama thought the government should make our citizens carry health insurance, period. If someone failed to do so, he would stick them with a fine. Even with a magic wand, isn't there a logic glitch in assessing a fine against a person unable to afford the required product in the first place?
Obama proclaimed that he would immediately begin to remove troops from Iraq and would complete the withdrawal within sixteen months. Hillary said she would began troop withdrawal within the first two months of her Presidency, but she was vague on how long it might take her to bring all of them home. She did deserve big points for toting a twenty-first century GI bill. Updating and revising a system that takes care of our military members and their families is long overdue.
Still, it does tickle the brain a little, though with pride, to imagine our military Commander-in-Chief wriggling into a pair of panty hose minutes before saluting her troops. It would, however, be deadly dangerous to underestimate a fierce mama bear leading the charge to protect her own.
There is something that both candidates promise us that will definitely be delivered. Change. Obama has made that a central talk-a-thon in his campaign. Americans are ready for change, but not just any change. In our top cat we need freshness, stability, and maturity. Both Hillary and Obama could make good on all of that criteria.
It is a win-win with either candidate. Each candidate reflects very well on the values of the democratic party as a whole. They are both progressive, professional, and independent thinkers looking for ways to protect our future.
It was undeniably a hard decision for Texas Dems to make this time around, though. It may have boiled down to who they trusted more, Hillary or Obama. Here we go, onward and upward to see who Ohio wants.
Boy! The super bowl had nothing over these two. Popcorn, anyone?
© Coninc., TheDownsideUp.Com 2008
Hillary committed to modern scientific progress by endorsing ethical embryonic stem cell research. Multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer, brain trauma, and the like have no political agenda. That devastation strikes across party lines. It is likely that even some people on the far right pray that the long-snubbed research will be revived with adequate government funding to leave the legacy of cure to their children and grandchildren.
The ideology of ethical reform by Obama had an airy ring. A google-like internet search engine so that Americans can discover how their tax dollars have been spent struck some people as missing the mark. Generally speaking, finding out how money is spent after the fact isn't the problem. Good leadership to determine how to spend is on target.
Economic purview by Obama focused on capping loan interest rates for overreaching financial institutions. He also urged reform of bankruptcy laws to protect families in medical need. Johnny Come Lately seems to have missed the boat here. The bankruptcy code was drastically (almost traumatically) overhauled in September 2005 and frankly, medical needs families deserve protection designed to help them before winding up in a bankruptcy crisis.
Health care plans by both candidates carried haunting uncertainties. Among other things, Hillary suggested that small businesses might carry the load. In truth, small businesses are strapped to keep doors open. Some employment income for families, even without fringe benefits like health care, is decisively better than not having a job or having to live on government subsidies. Her plan would give small business a tax credit. Theoretically it works out fine but cash flow is an actual daily concern and how a small business keeps going until it receives the tax credit (no matter how big it may be some day) wasn't in her plan.
Requiring Americans to purchase insurance based on a percentage of their income sounds similar to the existing Medicare program. So similar in fact that Hillary proposed that the common Joe should have the option to be covered by Medicare. That image is luring until the reality of the medicare bureaucracy is appreciated. Nevertheless, at least Hillary was grabbling with a difficulty she had first recognized and intended to work toward resolving.
Obama thought the government should make our citizens carry health insurance, period. If someone failed to do so, he would stick them with a fine. Even with a magic wand, isn't there a logic glitch in assessing a fine against a person unable to afford the required product in the first place?
Obama proclaimed that he would immediately begin to remove troops from Iraq and would complete the withdrawal within sixteen months. Hillary said she would began troop withdrawal within the first two months of her Presidency, but she was vague on how long it might take her to bring all of them home. She did deserve big points for toting a twenty-first century GI bill. Updating and revising a system that takes care of our military members and their families is long overdue.
Still, it does tickle the brain a little, though with pride, to imagine our military Commander-in-Chief wriggling into a pair of panty hose minutes before saluting her troops. It would, however, be deadly dangerous to underestimate a fierce mama bear leading the charge to protect her own.
There is something that both candidates promise us that will definitely be delivered. Change. Obama has made that a central talk-a-thon in his campaign. Americans are ready for change, but not just any change. In our top cat we need freshness, stability, and maturity. Both Hillary and Obama could make good on all of that criteria.
It is a win-win with either candidate. Each candidate reflects very well on the values of the democratic party as a whole. They are both progressive, professional, and independent thinkers looking for ways to protect our future.
It was undeniably a hard decision for Texas Dems to make this time around, though. It may have boiled down to who they trusted more, Hillary or Obama. Here we go, onward and upward to see who Ohio wants.
Boy! The super bowl had nothing over these two. Popcorn, anyone?
© Coninc., TheDownsideUp.Com 2008
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