elmoor's Comments (157)

“What plan? He's simply adding more troops to what was Bush's plan.”

“If you were paying attention instead of defending O regardless, you would have noticed that, yes, many people with expertise have considered whether the escalation will work and have deduced that NO it won't.”

“Nope.”

“Silly Elmoor:

Of course....­but positive articles would not receive such a prominent spot on HP. Only ultra-negative, "end of the world" type articles will be posted here.

"Obama is high on the intoxicating conceit that he can talk himself into anything and out of anything. His one strong conviction is that he is smarter, and superior all around, to us lesser mortals."

Did Charles Krauthammer ghost write this? Unbelieveable. Disagreement on policy is fine, but statements like this are pure nonsense. Why are Dems so intent on destroying their own leaders?”

“Yes, ...if it eventually gets posted.”

“they don't understand that concept elmoor”

“I agree with you And I really don't like the use of the phrase "a woman's right to choose" in this case. This is about abortion financing, not the right to have an abortion. There are other ways to address the need for abortions to be affordable for poor and low-income women.

So far I haven't seen any information regarding the % of abortions now paid through private insurance. I just don't think that the number is high.

And I haven't seen any information regarding the % of private, employer-based plans now that cover abortion. Again, I don't think that number is high.”

“And passing this poor excuse for health care reform does not hurt women? The Stupak Amendment is far more onerous that the Hyde Amendment. Have you read it?”

“Then way is it a felony to damage a Bald Eagle egg if it is nothing?”

“But your analogy is deeply flawed because the brain dead adult relative will not recover full human function if merely left alone, while the fetus will.

And even using your own standard, you should be opposed to Roe V Wade, since that decision made abortion legal long past any notional date of viability. That date of viability is constantly in flux as well as the science of caring for premature births advances. There are even researchers working on entirely artificial wombs that could in theory be used to gestate a fetus for the entire nine months.”

“Define "viable." Never-mind, I will: capable of living or surviving successfully. So for you it's not a "baby" until it is capable of thought? When is that, precisely? What about later in life when someone suffers a head injury or stroke or Alzheimer's causing them to lose their ability to think. Should we be permitted to euthanize those folks (just call it a REALLY late-term abortion)? So to answer your question, "yes" turning off the machine and ending the life of a brain-dead relative is "killing" (and "NO" we shouldn't be permitted to euthanize a stroke victim or Alzheimer's patient).”

“Yes, there is, and my insurance does.”

“There are many policies that don't cover post-miscarriage D&Cs, because "it's an abortion." I've a friend who works within a Catholic hospital system who's fetus died at 3 months. At 5 months they still wouldn't remove the dead tissue. Thank goodness she had the cash to go to Planned Parenthood.

And now we all have to have our health plans approved by the Council of Bishops.”

“And here's the nut of the problem with passing medical care costs onto the community at large, the community then gets to decide what is and isn't "medically necessary".

Really it's decision that should always be between the patient and their chosen medical advisor, but all that individual liberty nonsense from the founding is just a quaint anachronism in this enlightened age.”

“Love this comment.”

“Agreed!”

“Exactly. When the words "Yes we can" were chanted, WE was the operative word. Right now, it looks like WE are sitting on the sidelines, listening to the nonsense of the far right and conservatives, unfortunately. This day, being an election day, is a day that WE can make a difference, that we can continue the message that WE are going to make the difference, that WE are going to further the message of CHANGE! How is my hope? My HOPE is still intact. WE will get there as long as WE continue to get behind OUR PRESIDENT, as WE did when WE elected him. WE didn't elect him with the purpose of sitting on our butts and watching him struggle against an ineffective
Congress. WE can make a difference by voting out those that are standing idly by and obstructing progress and change.”

“precisely”

“Obama has had the most successful first year of any American president since LBJ revolutionized America in the mid-60's, and made the victory of an Obama possible. The carping about Obama is par for the course for the dumb, spoiled, whiny perfectionism that has characterized "left" youth culture since the 60's. No wonder the disciplined, focused, and effective right wing of this country has crushed the wimpy left for FORTY years. UNTIL Obama. Obama's already brought America out of the Great Recession and saved us from the Great Depression II. He's going to get a strong healthcare bill in the end--and if enough "progressives" get as active as the right is and FRIGHTEN the wavering Democrats into voting for it, a public option to boot. He's wisely taking his time to get serious about Afghanistan, a war of NECESSITY, as Obama has wisely always said it is. And he's done more for black Americans symbolically--which is huge in our culture--than anyone since King. Plus lots of small improvements to boot. Those "disappointed" in him are totally unrealistic. "Disappointed" compared to what president? Do they think they'd have been totally satisfied with Lincoln or FDR in their first years?”

“The Obama administration is better than the Bush Jr. administration was and the McCain administration would have been. Granted. But that simply isn't enough.”

“elmoor, I agree that the Obama administration is lots better than the Bush administration was. However, I think AAKAlan's post is excellent. These are forceful promises made by candidate Obama, which led people (including me -- no youngster) to work and vote for him, which led to his election. I'm disillusioned and much less inclined to work so hard or vote so eagerly for Obama again. A shame.”

“I don't accept your premise that ONLY the privatre sector creates jobs. It is easily disproved by looking at the US budget allocated to the military industrial complex which employs lots of people and the gov't is responsible for 100% of that employment. Add the military, homeland security and all the other gov't jobs and you can account for alot of employed people. The private sector has been shedding jobs for decades as investments and entire industries have been globalized elsewhere. So if capitalism is the savior, why has it not worked over the last few decades since Raygun. The simple truth is that greed trumps what's good for America. And chasing the profits by outsourcing to other countries is good for capitalists and bad for Americans.”

“NOT ONE??? I opened a small business in 2002 and personally put 30 people to work. Am I not private sector? Where do you get your "facts" from? How can you boldy state such obvious c-r-a-p??”

“No. Suicide is a selfish act.”

“Is there any evidence to support this statement / conjecture?”

“Sorry. I don't buy it.”

“"I'm not gay, but I'd like to be." - LOL! :-) Yes, I think it is indeed "valdi" (valid)...”

“It's not that elmoor. That we very disappointed BARACK OBAMA supporters expected "he could just blink his eyes" and things would change. It does take time to grind out CHANGE thru CONGRESS. Yet FDR sure did. Lots of it in 100 days. Big policy! Lots of it. LBJ, of all people, did too. But look at the people FDR worked closely with. Not folks from the HOUSES OF FINANCE, the propagators triggering the '29 Great Depression, promoting buying market on margin. No money to back up bottom out. No reserves. Sound familiar? What it is that kills us about our current President is the people he chose to surround himself with. For advice! Daily. From the time he gets up to going to bed. Aside the Pentagon stars and military munitions people, war hawks, the majority he hires to work out our in house domestic turmoils, are from MONEY and WALL STREET, that network etcetera. Problems not solutions. Burning the midnite oil to aright our ruined, sinking ship of State. Should be a joke. But these folks are deciding our economic/democracy future pretty much. The same. That ruined us in the first place, back operating handsomely. But far as the regular folks benefiting right now, like MONEY did, kidding me? It's that OBAMA is behaving like he is one of them! That's kind of cousin ain't exactly acting behalf the family raised him on high.”

“Which is why we need a public option. Good old-fashioned competition will drive those prices down.”