[Newsbot]

Title: Palin says Obama's plan to overhaul nation's health care is 'downright evil'
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: bootlegga
Date: 2009-08-08 08:07:55

[Guy_Fawkes]

All she is doing is running the circut, trying to drum up money so she can run. All the power to her though, the more popular she becomes with the hard right the more moderates will be pushed left.

[Dayseed]

Sarah Palin knows it's evil because she can see it from her backyard. McCain probably didn't know what evil he unleashed when he offered her the other spot on the ticket.

[Bacardi4206]

God, I thought she was gone already? If not done with politics put somebody should have shot her to make sure she never gets back into politics. Nobody's done that yet? Blah, wheres those trigger happy yanks when you need them.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I like it when Palin speaks. Every time those lips of hers start flapping, she sounds even dumber than the last time her lips flapped.
Apprently(despite her knowledge of foreign affairs cuz she lives next door to Russia ) socialized medicine means communism.

[Guy_Fawkes]

I think its funny how people try to scare their countrymen with the "death pannel". You know the whole reason they want universal heath care is to make sure that people who are denied by private health care get some sort of coverage.

[Canadian_Mind]

I don't see why more people aren't playing the game the American right-wing is trying to start. They say that a medical system that is more universal and government funded would lead to "government death panels."

So the question the right should be asing is, would you rather be judged by a "death panel" that is trying to win votes, or one that is trying to make money? It is far more benifitial in the way of votes for the government to approve care then it is benifitial in the way of making money for insurance corperatios to approve care.

[Proculation]

Well she has her style. It is not "downright evil" but it is certainly not a good thing specially now.

[LightStarr]

Speeches like that really grind my gears; especially when they try to relate them to the system of Canada. It's not the best up here, but it's not the worst and of course it has a few kinks; every system does. All of this fear mongering is doing no one any good down there. There is a guy, Rick Scott: I saw him on CNN the other day and I'd have to say he is one of the worst. The guy is pretending to be on the side of the American people, but I have serious doubts about his position. He was a part of the largest health conglomerate in the world and was outed on charges of fraud. He defrauded the American government and it's people of, and I'm trying to remember here so I could be off but bear with me, something like a billion dollars through over charging the government funded medicare program. And now the guy is trying to act like he is helping the American people. I have my doubts.

Of course Ms. Palin is just in it for the attention. If she wanted to release a proper press story she would have done so to a legitimate outlet and not Facebook. She reminds me of those people who have status messages screaming for attention. She is best ignored.

[herbie]

If I was on a "death panel" I'm afraid I'd have to conclude Sarah Palin isn't worth more than two weeks of amoxicillin.
Generic.
Those sulfa drugs are twenty-five, thirty bucks. Way too much to spend on a malcontent reactionary like her.

[N_Fiddledog]

LightStarr LightStarr:

Of course Ms. Palin is just in it for the attention. If she wanted to release a proper press story she would have done so to a legitimate outlet and not Facebook. She reminds me of those people who have status messages screaming for attention. She is best ignored.

Actual she did release an opinion in "a proper press story". She took a lot of flak for that too. I think it was the Washington Post. I think it concerned energy. The left didn't think she should be allowed to speak from a platform they considered theirs. That's the gist I got from the comments anyway.

I can explain where she's coming from with this one, if you like. Might as well have some actual info to go with the vitriol.

Actually, you're probably right in thinking it's most likely at least a little bit paranoid. You're wrong if you're thinking it comes out of nowhere.

Here's Republican rep Michelle Bachman saying pretty much the same thing.



The stuff she's quoting concerning the president's advisors is coming from an Op-ed in, I think it might have been, the Wall Street Journal. (Something like WSJ anyway. It was reputable. I remember that much.)

I read the critique of it from the left. The guy made a strong argument for the idea the thoughts of the advisor were taken out of context. According to him the advisor's specialty is medical ethics, and he was talking more about the ethical problems with different solutions. The critic claims the quotes are incomplete.

The controversy comes from a passage in the Health care bill. Don't try this link unless you have a strong computer, but I believe it's on page 425 of this PDF of the bill.

I couldn't get the link to run myself, but Rachel Maddow says the passage only concerns living wills, and it was a Republican who added it. I've read little bits about it elsewhere though, and it would seem to concern more than that. The language seems a little ambiguous, and it could possibly be warped by either side to mean what they want it to. On the other hand, if that's true, and say the party in power did want to abuse it there's the same problem of tricky language which could mean whatever the abuser wanted it to.

[xerxes]

First off, the Washington Post isn't a left wing rag.

Moreover, she shouldn't be allowed to speak for a few reasons.
1. She mangles the English language more than GWB ever did (which is no mean feat)
2. Everything she says is an affront to people with a level of education higher than primary school.
3. She never knows what the fuck she is talking about. All of her speeches are nothing more than a mish-mash of hastily memorized platitudes and catch phrases with no meaning whatsoever.

[N_Fiddledog]

xerxes xerxes:

First off, the Washington Post isn't a left wing rag.

I didn't say it was. I said there were many comments following the article (I believe it was in Washington post, but maybe not) which objected to right wing opinion being there. If you want to pressure me for an opinion though, I do believe the more repeated tendency in WaPo is to lean liberal, and Pro-Obama (so wouldn't that be left).

Speaking of mangling the English language though, another critique that turned up in multiple comments to Sarah's Op-ed on energy, was the allegation it was too well written to believe Sarah wrote it. They called foul, and claimed it was the work of a ghost writer. I didn't read the Facebook one. Are you saying it was badly written?

[GreenTiger]

What has thi twit been smoking?

If McCain had won the election I wouls be very concerned about his heath. The thought of this wacko running the US would scare the hell out of anybody, eccet Bin Ladin, Chavev, Kim Il Sung, Putin and Raul Castro.

Even her slutty flight attendant look isn't worth that.

It good she reigned as Governer before she fouls up Alaske.

[xerxes]

Not this particular article. I mean more in general wehn Palin speaks.