Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Freshly Squeezed

I cannot wait for Nov. 3rd. I cannot wait for Nov. 3rd because it is my hope that, on Nov. 3rd, my search for the absurd will not invariably lead me to the election races. I will be able to once again write about runaway asteroids and wacky religious zealots and inane scientific studies. Unfortunately, however, it is Oct. 13th...

Came across this today. Incumbent, democratic Fl. Congressman Alan Grayson ran this ad recently, attacking his Republican opponent, Dan Webster...



Wow! Powerful stuff. This guy is a lunatic. "Taliban Dan" indeed. I'm not one to buy into a political ad but, gosh, you can see the words coming out of his mouth. I mean, it's all right there

Or is it? Check this out, especially at :11 to about :18.



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Nothing up my sleeve, folks. Talk about smoke and mirrors.

The politics of incitement and fear. In essence, Rep. Grayson is telling the people of Florida's 8th congressional district that, should they elect his opponent, they can expect to be living under a fundamentalist Islamic regime replete with Ak-47s and burqa-clad women. And all of that with the biggest "taking out of context" since Mr. Roper found Mrs. Roper on top of Jack Tripper on the Roper's couch...Too much of a stretch?

It makes me wonder how the people of Florida's 8th congressional district who are unemployed, can't afford decent health care, or can't afford to go to college feel about this ad...


10 comments:

  1. A girl I work with occasionally was telling me a sad story about her boyfriend and his anger and drinking problems and that he evidently beat her up and raped her while she was asleep. [I know I didn't believe that either.] She ends up in the hospital and not buying health insurnce now has a big medical bill. Her comment: "I sure can't wait until there's universal health care."

    I asked her, are you registered to vote? She said no. I said well you have the righ to vote and if health care for all is important you better get registered and vote. She didn't see the corelation.

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  2. I mean, I understand the aversion to "big gov't." I really do. But shouldn't every citizen of a first-world country be able to afford health care?

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  3. AJ (October 15, 2010 8:26 AM),

    1) The problem is that -- just like the affordable housing fiasco -- government intervention, beginning in the days of FDR, has been the root cause of the exploding cost of health care.

    Click here and here to understand the REAL cause and cure for our health care mess (and why ObamaCare will only make things worse -- LOTS WORSE).

    2) Somebody should tell the rape and beating victim that ObamaCare will eliminate her freedom to choose whether to carry health insurance or not. Until such time as that mandate is correctly ruled to be unconstitutional, she will be required by law to carry government approved health insurance -- AND, it will be even MORE expensive than before.

    Oh, yeah...
    Ain't government tyranny grand?

    Keep living in your fantasy world of what should be. Keep ignoring the natural laws (such as supply and demand) which can neither be ignored nor revoked. Your house of cards will collapse around your ears soon enough. We are already well on our way to the inevitable entitlement driven fiscal collapse.

    But, hey…
    You morons will have killed the entire country for the sake of a very lovely fantasy!

    CHEERS!

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  4. AJ,

    By all means, keep right on whistling past the graveyard -- the willfully ignorant always do.

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  5. Repent!

    Sorry, it's just that you read like a Jack Chick cartoon.

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  6. Annoying Joe,

    First, thanks for responding to a recent blog post of mine.

    Second, you should know Alan Grayson is one of the good guys with a bad ad. He has fought the hard fight for the public option in health insurance, against people getting fleeced in wrongful foreclosures, etc. Dan Webster is a fundamentalist zealot, though not as bad as a the Taliban. And Webster would represent a big step backward against health insurance for all, protecting workers' wages from foreign competition, etc.

    So Grayson's ad was...Nixonian. If I lived in that district in Florida, I'd be outside my local grocery store registering voters or passing out the positive info on Grayson.

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  7. Mitchell,

    I understand and appreciate your point. I wasn't looking at the policies of the candidates so much as the absurdity of the ad. And you have to admit, it was absurd.

    Thanks for checking in.

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  8. "Somebody should tell the rape and beating victim that ObamaCare will eliminate her freedom to choose whether to carry health insurance or not. Until such time as that mandate is correctly ruled to be unconstitutional, she will be required by law to carry government approved health insurance -- AND, it will be even MORE expensive than before."

    Here we go again putting political ideology above the basic needs of people.
    The truth is if this victim has little or no income she will be automatically enrolled in healthcare coverage. If she is low-income she will appreciate what she will pay instead of what she could not even come close to affording under the Republicans plan of do nothing.
    People need insurance alot worse than their autos but the rightwing swallow a camel for the latter and strain at a knat against the former.

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  9. Doug - thats what i found so interesting about the NY gubernatorial candidate I posted about today.

    In his absurdist way he was discussing the "basic needs of people" that you mentioned.

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