Clinton hopes to paint Obama as healthcare flip-flopper
By Andy Barr
Posted: 01/22/08 05:33 PM [ET]
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign released a Web video Tuesday backing up the former first lady’s claim that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has changed positions on single-payer healthcare.
The video compares statements Obama made during Monday night’s Democratic debate with those he made to an AFL-CIO conference in June 2003 while campaigning for the Senate. Contradicting what Obama said at the debate, the old footage shows the senator saying, “I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage.
“That’s what I’d like to see,” Obama told the union at the time. “But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate and we have to take back the House.”
At the debate, Obama stated: “I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.
“What I said was: If I were starting from scratch, if we didn’t have a system where employers typically provided healthcare, I would probably go with a single-payer system.”
Clinton attacked Obama on what she said is a changing position and referenced the remarks he made in 2003.
“We have seen, once again, a kind of evolution here,” she said. “When Sen. Obama ran for the Senate he said he was for single-payer and said he was for single-payer if we could get a Democratic president and a Democratic Congress.
“As time went on, the last four or so years, he said he was for single-payer in principle, then he was for universal healthcare,” Clinton added. “And then his policy is not … universal.”
Obama struck back, saying the only thing that had evolved is Clinton’s “presentation of my positions, which has happened frequently in this campaign.”
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Demonstrable Lie #42 Claims he never said he was a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare; Video proves he did
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This Presidential Election is not about skin (color/ "race"), or gender, or liberal vs. conservative.
Its about .... BIG MONEY --- and 29 nuclear power plants.
WHY has MSNBC/NBC, CBS (& FOX & CNN) been putting out PRO-Obama/Anti-Clinton PROPAGANDA...everyday all day long - since last November?
ANSWER: Because Obama is PRO-Nuclear & he voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill; Clinton is NOT Pro-Nuke & Voted AGAINST the Cheney Energy Bill.
GE owns MSNBC/NBC, Westinghouse owns CBS ... & Thanks to the Cheney Energy Bill they are planning to reap BILLIONS in profits (Risk-Free) from building 29 new nukes AND from 30-40 years of HIGHER ELECTRICITY RATES.
(GE & Westinghouse have been pumping $Billions of ADVERTISING dollars for all their PRODUCTS - Into Every FORM of MEDIA, for generations.)
Other participants in Cheney's NExt Big
MONOPOLY POWER
---ENERGY RIPoff---
Excelon Corp. of ILLINOIS, Entergy (owners of many utilities in the Southern States); 3 consortiums of nuke industry corporations.
McCain voted for the Cheney Energy Bill & has already said on the campaign trail: "I have to remember to say ... its absoultely necessary for...us...to build nuclear power plants."
Cheney, GE, Westinghouse ( NBC,MSNBC,CNN,FOX,CBS;The MEDIA)... the nuke industry...Are running Obama AND McCain for President.
The only way we are going to get the NEW Clean Green ENERGY Technology/ECONOMY we NEED is the election of Clinton to the Presidency. We cannot afford to squander hundreds of $Billions on Obsolete 70-yr old nuclear power plants.
Last week's NEWS: The governor of South Carolina is refusing to allow the Federal govt. to ship 30 tons of plutonium into South Carolina---until the Feds provide him with a written agreement that the Feds will --REMOVE-- the plutonium from South Carolina---in the event their plans to produce nuke reactor FUEL are --- unsuccessful.
Looks like the govt. wants to move 30 TONS of plutonium from the western states to South Carolina to locate it closer to the 29 nukes to be built in many of the Eastern & Southern states.
(See Map at NY Times LINK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/washington/31nuclear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin )
(BTW a microscopic particle of plutonium, once inhaled, will kill you from lung cancer in about a week.)
Plans to build those nuclear power plants are well advanced - with licensing hearings already scheduled for the first few.
If you think nukes are ok... just
GOOGLE: Rocky Flats Denver plutonium, and, Hanford WA nuclear waste.
OBAMA = NO Experience Getting CHANGES made,
His whole campaign is based on ONE Big LIE:
Obama claims 7 years experience in the Illinois legislature - Working Across the Aisles, Bringing people together to get good CHANGES passed -as exemplified by 26 good bills with his name on them.
A Chicago reporter says all 26 bills were passed in ONE Year and they were NOT Obama's.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3418/10516/
EXCERPTS:
But what’s interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year.
Republicans controlled the Illinois General Assembly for six years of Obama’s seven-year tenure.
Then Emil Jones Jr. (became the Senate Majority leader), He became Obama’s kingmaker. Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
During his seventh year in the state Senate, Obama ... sponsored a whopping 26 bills including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
Working Across the Aisles/
Making CHANGES = ZILCH
Taking Credit for Other People's
Work/INTEGRITY = ZERO
Obama's book "Audacity..." confirms those 26 bills were passed in the last year Obama was in the Illinois legislature
--when--Democrats had a majority.
Quote:
"After two terms during which I labored in the minority, Democrats had gained control of the state senate, and I had subsequently passed a slew of bills, from reforms of the Illinois death penalty system to an expansion of the state’s health program for kids. I had continued to teach at the University of Chicago Law School, a job I enjoyed, and was frequently invited to speak around town."
PLEASE Pass the Word. Since the TV "News" has now become nothing but Obama Propaganda, its up to We The People to get the Real News out.
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