Just posted a poll in reference to why the middle east hates us. It would seem a lot of people do indeed believe its due to jealously.
These debates will do more harm to the GOP in the general election than they ever realize. The unfathomable tea party reaction to the willful call for allowing the uninsured to die will offend the vast majority of middle class undecided voters. The Dems should use this stuff on endless loops.
what upsets me is the media won't call these guys out or the crowd because of fear of being called liberally biased
did they talk about Muslims in America and/or the building of mosques on American Soil issue? I heard the recap on illegal, er, Latino voters , as well as muslim terrorists and why they hate us. Herman Cain has an ambitious plan to prevent the building of said mosques on a Constitutional basis. it would have been nice for them to expose themselves to a wider audience last night.
deckard sometimes i wonder if you live in texas. if you don't understand by now that texans love the tough stupid rick perry rhetoric i don't think you'll ever get it.
They need to combine that with something about how they'd rather see people did than have the wealthy pay a penny more in taxes.
The most disappointing part about these debates isn't the candidates, surprisingly (I'm OK with Romney, Huntsman, and even Paul on most things)... it's the crowd. The GOP base. They disgust me and every debate find a new way to disgust me further. OK, politicians lie. They say off-the-cuff things that aren't true. They intentionally deceive the listener. That's expected. Some do it more than others. Ron Paul almost never does it, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann constantly do it. It's all expected. The saddest part, to me, is that no one seems to care if they lie. No one thinks "hmm, that doesn't sound right". They just hear what they want to hear and that's that. I know this is nothing new, but this is really the first time I've watched debates. It's astonishing.
I'm willing to bet some of the people that said the uninsured should just die if they can't afford is are uninsured themselves. They'll change their tune when they get sick.
Indeed. That's what saddens me most about the country. These people probably have the highest voter turnout, too. Isaac Asmiov put it best, I think: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
Serious? Did anyone even watch the debate? Or are you all blindly following what the media says? Ron Paul: Thats what freedom is all about, taking your own risk ... (audience applauds) Blitzer: Are you saying society should let him die? (a couple people yell out "yeah") Feel free to watch the clip if you want the facts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irx_QXsJiao
I have a friend who is hardcore Republican. He, his wife, and his 3 small children have no insurance and he likes it that way. I know that he qualifies for SCHIP and could get his children insured but he refuses to look into it. They've managed to deal with the costs of paying the bills for when the kids were born and that's all the evidence he needs that he doesn't really need insurance. With the individual mandate in the ACA, he'd gladly rather pay whatever penalty there is than purchase health insurance. As I watched the Ron Paul clip, I just wondered if there were people like him who would say "yes, I don't have insurance and if I or my family get really sick and we're unable to pay for treatment, the government shouldn't help us and should let us die."
The posts on here are saying when asked if the uninsured should be left to die, the audience said yes. You argue that point by getting into the specifics of the audience saying the uninsured should die? They said it, you even backed it up more than anyone else here.
