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Health/Medical Title: Watch Tea Party Favorite GOP Prez Hopeful Herman Cain Battle Bill Clinton on Health Care In my short profile of Herman Cain, the Tea Party favorite and GOP presidential hopeful, I mentioned his auspicious debut on the national political stage. It came in 1994, when Cain was CEO of Godfather's Pizza and challenged Bill Clinton at a nationally televised town hall meeting supposed to shore up support for Clinton's flagging health care plan. (It didn't.) As I say in the piece, this strikes me as an enormously valuable thing for someone seeking GOP support in 2011, since health care will be a central issue in the Republican primaries. Today, every Republican is critical of the Democratic health care plan. But Cain was fighting the Democratic health care plan 17 years ago! That counts for a lot. Especially when the presumed GOP favorite, Mitt Romney, was, at that very same time, doing his best to outflank Ted Kennedy to the left on the question of who was more vehemently pro choice. The video of Cain's classic confrontation with Clinton was harder to turn up than I expected. But I finally got a copy, uploaded it, and it certainly lives up to billing. If this video goes viral among conservative activists, Cain's candidacy will be even more interesting to watch:
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 14. But Cain was fighting the Democratic health care plan 17 years ago! The Democratic health care plan 17 years ago was very different from the ACA, the ACA is much closer to the alternative Republican plan proposed in 1993. See: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Graphics/2010/022310-Bill-comparison.aspx
#2. To: go65 (#1) The Democratic health care plan 17 years ago was very different from the ACA. True. THIS one flatly states, we'll have death panels. The socialist attitude is, "when we feel you are no longer 'contributing' to society, then we'll just pull the plug." You must be SO proud of oBUMa... he's your savior, yes...? "CHAINS we can believe in..."
#3. To: Capitalist Eric (#2) The socialist attitude is, "when we feel you are no longer 'contributing' to society, then we'll just pull the plug." As I've said before, no facts, just propaganda repeated endlessly for the mindless.
#6. To: lucysmom (#3) As I've said before, no facts, just propaganda repeated endlessly for the mindless. I think by this definition the cuts to organ transplant programs for the poor in Arizona are "socialist", right?
#8. To: go65 (#6) I think by this definition the cuts to organ transplant programs for the poor in Arizona are "socialist", right? The fact that Arizona has a transplant program for the poor is socialist. Ending the program would be an affirmation of the most holy workings of the free market, blessings be upon its profit.
#9. To: lucysmom (#8) The fact that Arizona has a transplant program for the poor is socialist. Ending the program would be an affirmation of the most holy workings of the free market, blessings be upon its profit. right, it's darwinian, kill off the poor and only the rich will be left.
#11. To: go65, lucysmom (#9) Stick to the facts. Check your uncontrollable emotional outbursts at the door, and maybe people will take you seriously (MAYBE).
#12. To: Capitalist Eric, go65, lucysmom (#11) "Going Postal" as modern-day slave rebellions by the hopeless
#14. To: Godwinson (#12) Laissez-Faire Capitalism Has Failed: The financial crisis lays bare the weakness of the Anglo-Saxon model Not worth reading. We haven't had a Laissez-Faire capitalist system in the USA for ~150 years. In the last 97 years, it has been a highly managed economic system. And due to its mismanagement, it is now imploding. Nice try. 8^)
Replies to Comment # 14. #16. To: Capitalist Eric (#14) We haven't had a Laissez-Faire capitalist system in the USA for ~150 years. In the last 97 years, it has been a highly managed economic system. So Laissez-Faire Capitalism does not work and has not for 150 years........ So why would you want to return to an unworkable and antique system?
#21. To: Capitalist Eric (#14) We haven't had a Laissez-Faire capitalist system in the USA for ~150 years. In the last 97 years, it has been a highly managed economic system. Do you think regulation leads or follows mismanagement?
#23. To: Capitalist Eric (#14) We haven't had a Laissez-Faire capitalist system in the USA for ~150 years. In the last 97 years, it has been a highly managed economic system. Miss the days when the snake oil salesman could freely peddle fraud without fear do you?
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