The Right cynically uses blacks when it suits their purpose, and since everyone has a price, there are many blacks willing to take a few bucks to be a willing stooge. Many times I’ve seen a GOP pol give a speech on TV and there is often in the crowd at least one black face placed strategically behind them. In the words of Raymond Chandler, they are about as “conspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food”.

Ha! Everything you say is true, but I try to be pithy. Every other thing you said about Willard falls under the category of “prick.”

Aside from nuzzling up to the 1% and continuing to expand the war machine (onwards to Iran), Willard has one major handicap – himself. He was a bully, a prick and a coward when he was 17 and he’s still one today.
Even the low info voter, when they wake up from their “all politicians are crooked” slumber after Labor Day will realize that Willard, on top of everything else he is, is also a phony.

Come back with a poll six days before the election. Six months out doesn’t mean anything, other than to give the MSM 24 hour news cycle something to talk about. Obama’s team have already built up a great ground game in the so-called battleground states. The media would rather reflect on the horse race nature of polls. It’s part and parcel of their lazy stenographic nature in not having to do real digging. All the while the Obama people are doing the day to day grunt work building up to a massive get out the vote effort.

The calculation has already been made that what he said today will gain more votes than he loses. He’s passing the buck to the states, meaning the yahoos in the state legislatures, or a popular vote, can decide who you can or can not marry. This is BS, and this is coming from someone who has been in a straight marriage for decades. This is a basic human right that ultimately needs to be codified for good by the SCOTUS. As it is, as tepid as Obama has been, he still has ten times the stones as Willard.

There is no way that Willard gets to the WH and has a Dem Congress.
He’d come in with the GOP most likely holding the House, and re-taking the Senate. Toss in a couple more right wing hack SC appts., and we will have the circling of the drain disaster that so many on FDL are waiting for. To the barricades! :-)

I suspect it will take tens of thousands of medical horror stories, and people in financial ruin, lasting, perhaps, a decade or two, before single payer is introduced.
There has never been a serious debate in this country about whether an equal level of healthcare for all is a “right”, which I believe it is. We are all separated by the commodities we choose, but heathcare shouldn’t be another commodity subject to market forces. Until the lunatic Right no longer are players and become sideline gawkers to the discussion, nothing positive will get done. Perhaps all the aging Boomers, like myself, have to die off first.

To the barricades, LOL!!!
What is the unemployment rate, 8.5% or there abouts? Come back to me with your tough talk about revolutuion when it approaches about 50% will ya.

So you want Romney in the WH with a bat shit crazy Congress? Ryan and Norquist will control Willard. I’m not of the school of “things have to get worse before they get better.” With the GOP controlling all three branches, plus some new SCOTUS appts, things can only get worse.
Many of you just haven’t accepted the fact that Barack is probably the most “liberal” Pres. you will see in your lifetime. Frightening thought, but thems the facts.

Obama bashing is fun, when you are politically impotent. In a moment of insanity I once thought that it would be best to have the GOP controlling all three branches, since it would hasten Armageddon. There would be too much collateral damage done. At least with Obama if we continue to swirl down the drain it will be in slow motion and almost imperceptible.

There isn’t going to be any “revolution.” Dissidents are just going to be co-opted. That is the genius of the system. Any revolution will be made into a reality show on CBS. Some crumbs are tossed, but nothing will change. I don’t think anyone on this board would want to be around for a real revolution (of the France 1789 sort) especially will all the guns in the hands of these millions of NRA cracker a-holes.

Don ‘t expect any enlightenment coming from Cardinal Dolan’s office.
The guy is as much of a right wing hack as a GOP congressional freshman.
He’s just a used car salesman who likes to play dress up.

And in the meantime, as we wait for that unforeseeable future, there will be hundreds of thousands of horror stories about people denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, spiraling insurance rates, and people going bankrupt and foreclosing homes because of insurmountable medical bills.
The whole rotten system sucks. Until there is a consensus that promoting the general health and welfare should not be part of a for profit construct not much will change. That means the dissolution of healthcare companies, except for those that will act as govt. contractors administering a universal system, where health decisions are left only to the patients and medical professionals.
I don’t think physicians in Canada and Europe are hurting in their pocket books. I’d be all for shelling out a few more bucks for defraying the cost of a medical education, so when these doctors graduate they aren’t saddled with debt.

It’s too bad that Anthony Weiner “shot himself in the foot” and blew his congressional career. He was the most forceful member of the House in railing against the uselessness and the unnecessary need for a health insurance industry. They provide NOTHING to the consumer. Rates aren’t going to go down, and medical care itself will continue to rise. The only winners in all this will be the insurance company stock holders. The ACA is a band aid. The whole system is unworkable and in need of a total overhaul.

Medicare will come eventually, probably another 15-20 years. First there must come a system that becomes so unsustainable that a radical change is called for. That is where the ACA comes into play. All it does is continue to make healthcare a for profit entity enriching health insurance and drug companies. Both those industries had a hand in crafting that bill.
The fact that the Obama WH is now gladly referring to the ACA as Obamacare tells me that the fix is already in at the SCOTUS. I’d say 6-3, with Kennedy and Roberts and the 4 libs.
I’m of mixed minds. Throwing out the act as unconstitutional makes the Tea Party wing of the GOP jump for joy, and who wants to see them happy? However, keeping the mandate and the overall law in place only forestalls the inevitable necessity of universal coverage for many years.

You are being too kind. This assumes that Willard is human, whereas I have grave doubts. His father was an estimable individual in many ways. What went wrong?

I have a feeling that the law will stand. Possibly 6 to 2 (Scalia and Alito). I don’t include Thomas, since he’s just a lump and a judicial disgrace on the bench, and gives no meaning to a decision unless Scalia has his hand up his back pulling the strings.
Although, it would be just as well that the mandate is thrown out and start from scratch. The access to affordable healthcare is in such a sorry state that the only feasible way out of it is single payer and dismantle private insurance. All they do in gouge.

I have a couple more years than you, so I think we’ll be fine with SS and Medicare, but that really isn’t the point if you care about your family and people 30 years your junior. The GOP tries in their greedy way to pit the current receipients against the younger population. That only works if you are a Tea party cretin, or one of those people that doesn’t want to pay property taxes for schools because their children are grown.