"only an idiot" would fail to support the health care plan proposed by her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
Teresa, I don't want you raising my taxes to provide more health care subsidies. If history is any judge, most of these taxes would be wasted on administration instead of going to help us pay high medical bills. Instead, let's reduce our high medical bills by simply protecting them from trial lawyers like John Edwards.
At the same time Teresa Kerry was attacking my intelligence, a professor on the right also called me an idiot if I could answer yes to even one of his twenty-five questions. Unlike Teresa, Mike Adams was using humor to make a point. However, I think he was also serious. I must admit, some of his questions would probably serve their stated purpose. But then he blew it.
19. Have you ever nodded during a speech by Jesse Jackson?Yes. Yes I have. On November 27, 1993 I fully agreed with several of Jesse Jackson's points. In a rare showing of common sense, Jackson anticipated Bill Cosby's honest appraisal of some of the social problems African Americans cause themselves.
There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery and then look around and see it's somebody white and feel relieved. How humiliating.I'll cut Mike some slack though – back in 1994 I think Adams was still a liberal and he probably wants to suppress some of those memories. And I haven't heard Jesse Jackson say anything so refreshingly true in years. But I expect Mike to admit he was wrong and apologize for calling me an idiot. I'd like an apology from the Ketchup queen too, but I don't expect to get one from the likes of her.We got the power right now to stop killing each other, to stop abandoning our babies and give them the dignity of our names.
I was so impressed with this speech I still have a summary of it that was published a few months later. You can obtain a copy from your library (US News & World Report, January 17, 1994, pages 38-39).
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If you want to start a "cost of health care thread" I have a lot to say (when do I not?)
The main problem with the way US Health Care is paid for (as opposed to quality, medical education, distribution of health care between urban and rural areas etc) are:
A) the people who provide the health care, receive the health care, pay for the health care and set the price for the health care are four different groups of people (try to buy food under that sort of system)
B) (a result of A) some groups get health care at a price far below the cost to provide it, and some get health care at a cost far above. IE some groups are heavily subsidized by other groups.
After having been called all kinds of nasty names by the likes of Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh as well as having my patriotism and sanity questioned by conservatives, "idiot" is really not one of the worst things to call someone.