us politics

If You Compare Obama to the Nazis You Need a History Lesson

August 25, 2009

I’ve listened to and read some of the rhetoric that’s been pushed out by opponents of the healthcare reform program and I become more disgusted each day. And I’m not an American. I read posts on Twitter, I watch video clips and I read news reports that are deliberately highly personal attacks on your President. [...]

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Trying To Have an Argument…

August 20, 2009

“..Trying to have an argument with you would be like trying to argue with the dining room table..” That’s one of the best put-downs I’ve heard for a long time and it comes from Barney Frank at a Town Hall meeting where some woman compares Obama to Hitler and the Health Care Reform proposal to [...]

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The US Health Care Debate

August 18, 2009

I’m not an American, so I feel a little uneasy at sticking my nose into what is essentially an internal issue for the US to sort out. It shouldn’t concern me. But it does. It’s not so much the details of Obama’s proposed plan, or the impact the current system has on the US economy. [...]

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