Now what scares me about Hillary, is that she seems to have no principles but that Hillary gets to tell everyone else what to do. And she’s good at that, and can get other people to go along with that.

The Fuehrer-Prinzip, ya know?

I hate Illinois Nazis.

No Flack! Promise. We Righties cultivate our Lefties at Lexxies!

re- “unanimity is achieved.”

Perceptive. Replace unanimity with “victory” though.

re Barney

I coulda swore he was a homogenous. Learn something every day.

b2

Time to pick up my chips Lex, and bow out of this thread. I will try to find a better word than myths, for combat between Liberals vs Conservative philosophy is not my cup of tea. The problem remains, a Health Care system that does not work for most of us.

You see, when you write that conservatives are all bound up in our myths while other, more virtuous souls earnestly, rationally – and yes, passionately – try to puzzle out solutions to society’s more pressing problems, you may find that you put off those you would intend to persuade. “Myths” are very much in the eye of the beholder you see, and other peoples’ myths are always more offensive than our own. Motes and beams.

My opening statement on this particular post was that I had little to offer on Mr. Reich’s post itself, choosing instead to focus on the heat generated in comments. When you start your own blog you’ll have the liberty of choosing your own topics.

Having done so, you will occasionally cross swords with those who wish you had written about something else. I hope you will find it as illuminating as I do.

I am pleased that you drop in and listen to the Navy music, though. I don’t mind people who disagree, just those who are disagreeable.

Cheers.

Baring the eternal cheap shot (see my full disclosure statement), any comment on Health Care policy requires at the minimum several paragraphs, with some presentation of data. Robert Reich’s knows this, and his post presented no data…

If “motes and beams” refers to the quality of the comments in Reich’s post, you will get no argument from me… At your urging I spent about 30 minutes reviewing the comments, and I found little to enlighten me on the problems we face.

I pulled up a chair, and bought some chips, and got into this post for one simple reason. You can mock the exchange between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters as schoolyard taunting, but the central question remains: Are we going to address the question of a health care system that by any measure is under performing?

The only Republican candidate who has raised the issue of Health Care is (gasp) the maverick McCain. Not your favorite Republican candidate, for he has questioned the use of torture, and tried to regulate money in political campaigns.

Rarely read dKos, and hardly ever the Reich blog. Do spend some time with Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine blog), and of course Balkanization (a legal blog… warning: tedious, and you ain’t going to find two line comments.) I do read your blog Lex, love the Navy talk, and your photographs dazzle the old retina… But, pardon my elbows; there must be a somebody that questions some of your views.

Lets not obscure the issues that really count. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will examine the Bourmediene case. Which can be distilled down to eternal question, what kind of a nation are we…

In my travels around the Internet, I have been amazed that few if any of the political pundits watching the campaign struggles seem to have looked ahead to “what if” and “what follows.” What if Hillary succeeds in her campaign and is elected? What follows?

It’s my theory that Hillary is serving as a stalking horse for Billy Jeff. Does anyone, if they think about it, seriously suppose that when those two folks take over the White House once again, that Billy Jeff won’t be in charge? Come on. Pull the other one – it’s shorter.

Marianne Matthews