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Elizabeth Edwards long journey and challenges are now over. May she rest in peace.
If the dogs in the media will let her.
Yes, I'm talking about you, Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd. Your disgusting on-air trashing of this woman when her death was just confirmed is beyond loathesome. And will not be forgotten by this former viewer.
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Showing posts with label Elizabeth Edwards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Edwards. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Friday, July 18, 2008
Nancy Takes Off the Gloves
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Speaking with her most blunt language ever, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lays the blame for the nation's current economic woes right in the laps of the two oil men in the White House.
And as Scarecrow over at FDL reminds this morning, writing on the Al Gore speech...it's all of a piece. The economy, national security, the environment.
Some would say, why limit this conversation to just the economy, national security, and the environment.
There's also the state of our healthcare.
It's all of a piece....
Speaking with her most blunt language ever, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lays the blame for the nation's current economic woes right in the laps of the two oil men in the White House.
And as Scarecrow over at FDL reminds this morning, writing on the Al Gore speech...it's all of a piece. The economy, national security, the environment.
Some would say, why limit this conversation to just the economy, national security, and the environment.
There's also the state of our healthcare.
It's all of a piece....
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Politics of Purity
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Just when you thought the machinations of the healthcare industry couldn't be more frustrating, along comes Elizabeth Edwards at Thinkprogress to point us to another layer of sunshine on the number-crunching that makes already-stress-full circumstances—living with chronic disease—even more of a challenge. For women.
Please, follow the link and learn more, I'll wait til you get back...
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Health insurance actuaries actually sit down and push the beans around and decide that those of us who are estrogenally blessed should pay more for the privilege. Kinda fits that whole ying-yang of insurance companies paying for Viagra, but not birth control.
Edwards rightly takes McCain's health care plan to the woodshed for simply reinforcing more of the same ol' same ol'...with different labels.
So I gotta ask, why haven't you endorsed Obama yet, Elizabeth?
You say his plan isn't what you want? Not good enough? Doesn't go far enough?
As wife-of-a-cancer survivor to cancer survivor, though, Elizabeth, I gotta say, past is prologue. And it may be nasty to mention, but we've seen how McCain and fellow Republicans like the re-emergent Newt Gingrich treat women suffering major healthcare crises.
These guys are the real cancer, for all of us.
I hope you'll endorse Obama soon. His plan may not be perfect. He may need nurturing and encouraging people around him (like the medical teams our families have entrusted loved ones to). But like that first day out of bed after surgery, ya gotta take the first step.
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Just when you thought the machinations of the healthcare industry couldn't be more frustrating, along comes Elizabeth Edwards at Thinkprogress to point us to another layer of sunshine on the number-crunching that makes already-stress-full circumstances—living with chronic disease—even more of a challenge. For women.
Please, follow the link and learn more, I'll wait til you get back...
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Health insurance actuaries actually sit down and push the beans around and decide that those of us who are estrogenally blessed should pay more for the privilege. Kinda fits that whole ying-yang of insurance companies paying for Viagra, but not birth control.
Edwards rightly takes McCain's health care plan to the woodshed for simply reinforcing more of the same ol' same ol'...with different labels.
So I gotta ask, why haven't you endorsed Obama yet, Elizabeth?
You say his plan isn't what you want? Not good enough? Doesn't go far enough?
As wife-of-a-cancer survivor to cancer survivor, though, Elizabeth, I gotta say, past is prologue. And it may be nasty to mention, but we've seen how McCain and fellow Republicans like the re-emergent Newt Gingrich treat women suffering major healthcare crises.
These guys are the real cancer, for all of us.
I hope you'll endorse Obama soon. His plan may not be perfect. He may need nurturing and encouraging people around him (like the medical teams our families have entrusted loved ones to). But like that first day out of bed after surgery, ya gotta take the first step.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Health. Care.
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The passion Elizabeth Edwards brings to the subject of health care is undeniable. Many of us share that passion because, like her, our family travels the cancer road. And in so doing, we experience, either directly or through our loved ones, the exquisite toll that road extracts.
We know what it means to deal with health care providers, even at their best, and with the frustrations of insurance coverages, or lack of coverages. And even the Rube Goldbergian state of the business side of the health care industry these days. Makes those Hillary Care mocking diagrams the Republicans pushed back then look like a straight-line walk in the park compared to the cumbersome and convoluted and maze-like contraptions the Republican-controlled Congress provided over the years since 1994.
So I follow with interest Elizabeth's take on the candidates and their health care programs.
Without getting into the fine points of those programs, however, because me weary head spins in the doing, I'm of a mind that style matters as much as substance in this argument. Here's why.
No health care program at all will be effective if it can't get through the Congress. Carl Bernstein addressed this issue on the Imus Show this morning [no link avail yet] in making the point that the health care plan—and the way Hillary shepherded it—not only did not pass muster with the Congress, it was also, in Bernstein's opinion, a significant if not the major, cause of the Democrats' loss of the Congress to Newtster and the Republicans.
I think we're seeing deja voodoo all over again in this campaign. All the detailed nuanced planning in the world won't make a hill of beans of difference if it can't be passed. And that's where I may be diverging from Elizabeth Edwards' take. Because I'm seein' same ol', same ol' from 2/3 of the remaining candidates.
My personal candidate support is not based on a single issue, important as it is, but the overarching arc of what each of the three remaining candidates offer in terms of style as well as substance. Because it's going to take style—a cool kind of style, methinks—to lead the people in getting this car that is America back out of the muck in the ditch, cleaned up, tuned up, and back on the road.
And there's only one place I'm seeing that right now, with a candidate who coolly tells his audience that he has expectations of them, as well as himself. A candidate who refuses to let his opponents or the media frame him as a single issue candidate. And the audience responds to that, because they—we—are ready for expectations. Young and old, we're not cowering under our school desks anymore, and we're ready to do better.
The passion Elizabeth Edwards brings to the subject of health care is undeniable. Many of us share that passion because, like her, our family travels the cancer road. And in so doing, we experience, either directly or through our loved ones, the exquisite toll that road extracts.
We know what it means to deal with health care providers, even at their best, and with the frustrations of insurance coverages, or lack of coverages. And even the Rube Goldbergian state of the business side of the health care industry these days. Makes those Hillary Care mocking diagrams the Republicans pushed back then look like a straight-line walk in the park compared to the cumbersome and convoluted and maze-like contraptions the Republican-controlled Congress provided over the years since 1994.
So I follow with interest Elizabeth's take on the candidates and their health care programs.
Without getting into the fine points of those programs, however, because me weary head spins in the doing, I'm of a mind that style matters as much as substance in this argument. Here's why.
No health care program at all will be effective if it can't get through the Congress. Carl Bernstein addressed this issue on the Imus Show this morning [no link avail yet] in making the point that the health care plan—and the way Hillary shepherded it—not only did not pass muster with the Congress, it was also, in Bernstein's opinion, a significant if not the major, cause of the Democrats' loss of the Congress to Newtster and the Republicans.
I think we're seeing deja voodoo all over again in this campaign. All the detailed nuanced planning in the world won't make a hill of beans of difference if it can't be passed. And that's where I may be diverging from Elizabeth Edwards' take. Because I'm seein' same ol', same ol' from 2/3 of the remaining candidates.
My personal candidate support is not based on a single issue, important as it is, but the overarching arc of what each of the three remaining candidates offer in terms of style as well as substance. Because it's going to take style—a cool kind of style, methinks—to lead the people in getting this car that is America back out of the muck in the ditch, cleaned up, tuned up, and back on the road.
And there's only one place I'm seeing that right now, with a candidate who coolly tells his audience that he has expectations of them, as well as himself. A candidate who refuses to let his opponents or the media frame him as a single issue candidate. And the audience responds to that, because they—we—are ready for expectations. Young and old, we're not cowering under our school desks anymore, and we're ready to do better.
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