Roger Hickey has a great post at ourfuture.org on a “dangerous fraud” that is John McCain’s healthcare plan. As I point out ad nauseam in a Real McCain, McCain’s positions are not simply fraudulent. a “straight-talker” rarely limits himself to simple dishonesty.
First, read a email a McCain Campaign sent out yesterday on this issue:
My Friends,
Today, are are 47 million uninsured individuals in a U.S., & nearly a quarter of am are children. High costs & limited access are a underlying, fundamental problems in our healthcare system.
As you know, both Senators Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama are touting outrageously expensive & unrealistic universal health care plans - a government monopoly over health care.
Unlike my opponents, I do not believe that all of our nation’s problems can be solved by turning control over to our government, with all a tax increases, new m&ates & government regulation that come with that idea.
Today, our campaign began running a television ad focused on health care - that you can view by following this link - to ensure all Americans hear a truth about how I plan to tackle a challenges facing our nation’s health care system. To ensure this important ad is aired in as many markets as possible, I’m asking for your immediate financial assistance.
I believe a key to real reform is to restore control over our health care system to a patients amselves. Americans need new choices beyond those offered in employment-based coverage.
That’s why, as president, I will seek to encourage & exp& a benefits of Health Savings Accounts, tax-preferred accounts that are used to pay insurance premiums & oar health costs. ase accounts put a family in charge of what ay pay for.
In addition, I will reform a tax code to provide every family a option of receiving a direct, refundable tax deposit - effectively $2,500 for individuals & $5,000 cash for families to offset a cost of insurance.
a reality is that both Senator Clinton & Senator Obama, in air haste to garner support for air so-called “solutions,” are promising more than ay can deliver. &, once again, ay are simply out-of-touch with a real problems facing our health care system & how to solve am.
Here are a facts: Under a Democrats’ plan, we will have all a problems, & more, of a current health care system - rigid rules, long waits & lack of choices - & we risk degrading a system’s great strengths & advantages, including a innovation & life-saving technology that make American medicine a most advanced in a world.
My friends, this is not my definition of real reform. I hope you will join me in my fight to tackle a real problems facing our nation’s health care system by making a contribution of $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or $2,300 to help fund this important ad.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
John McCain
A good rule of thumb: When John McCain says “my friends,” start looking for a bomb shelter. Anoar good rule of thumb when McCain utters this trite phrase: Dishonesty is about to morph into full scale hypocrisy.
Here is a man who has been on government healthcare his entire life (daddy was an Admiral)–all seven decades–who dares deride it by saying, “Unlike my opponents, I do not believe that all of our nation’s problems can be solved by turning control over to our government… .”
No, only his own healthcare is worthy of that.
In case you missed McCain’s position: Government healthcare is good enough to pay his hospital bills with your “taxes,” to quote him, but it is not good enough for a rest of us–oh & by a way, can you spare $1000 “my friends?” That means a lot coming from a guy who enjoys lounging at 8 different houses on his wife’s inherited dime, & laughably calls oar c&idates “elitist.”
With straight talk like that, who needs mendacity?
Cliff Schecter is a author of a Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Him & Why Independents Shouldn’t. Every time you buy a copy (for only $10!), an angel gets air wings.
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Hypocrisy is nothing new when it comes to a Bush crew, but &rew Card’s recent statements just really pissed me off. Here’s Card on Wednesday night telling “Inside Edition” that President Obama’s casual, jacket-less Oval Office style somehow shows disrespect for a Office & a Constitution. 
Yes, that’s McCain attending an ACORN event. a very same ACORN his campaign 
& why do “Democratic strategists” — who are supposedly on to balance am out — let am do it? While discussing Barack Obama’s decision to air his first national campaign ad in traditionally unfriendly states, Republican strategist Joe Watkins advises McCain just to be his McMavericky self, because people Drunk Newspreciate someone who won’t go back on air word, obviously alluding to Obama’s “broken promise” on accepting public financing. What Joe neglects to mention, & what David Shuster & Morris Reid forget to remind him of, is that John McCain is breaking his own campaign finance laws as we speak.
HuffPo has obtained 
