The Vice-Presidential Debate

• Oct 5, 2008 Posted by Dr. Alex Blum
  From Don McCanne's quote-of-the-day
  
  The Vice-Presidential Debate
  October 2, 2008
  
  Sarah Palin: (in her closing statement) It was Ronald Reagan who said
  that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We
  don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for
  it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the
  same, or we're going to find ourselves SPENDING OUR SUNSET YEARS
  TELLING OUR CHILDREN AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN ABOUT A TIME IN
  AMERICA, BACK IN THE DAY, WHEN MEN AND WOMEN WERE FREE.
  
  Video and transcript:
  http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/vice-presidential-debate.html
  
  And...
  
  Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine
  LP recording, 1961, Woman's Auxiliary of the AMA
  
  Ronald Reagan: Write those letters now. Call your friends, and tell
  them to write them. If you don't, this program (King-Anderson version
  of Medicare) I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will
  come up tomorrow. And behind it will come other federal programs that
  will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country,
  until, one day, as Norman Thomas said, we will awake to find that we
  have socialism. And if you don't do this, and if I don't do it, one of
  these days, you and I are going to SPEND OUR SUNSET YEARS TELLING OUR
  CHILDREN, AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, WHAT IT WAS ONCE LIKE IN
  AMERICA WHEN MEN WERE FREE.
  
  WHAM campaign (Women Help American Medicine):
  http://www.larrydewitt.net/Essays/Reagan.htm
  
  mp3 audio of "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine"
  http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/reagan1.mp3
  
  
  Comment:  If you really care about the future of our health care
  system, you should give some thought to the motivation of the
  McCain/Palin camp in selecting this closing statement for her debate.
  
  Obama and Biden support a greater government role in ensuring that
  more individuals have affordable health care and health care coverage.
  McCain and Palin support freedom and individual responsibility in
  accessing health care and health care coverage. If you need health
  care, well designed public policies can work for all of us, but
  private policies can work only for those with the financial means to
  obtain adequate coverage.
  
  For her closing statement, the McCain/Palin advisors selected the most
  notorious attack on a government role in health care, deceptively
  cloaked in the rhetoric of freedom. That should tell you something.
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• Re: The Vice-Presidential Debate
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  I knew Obama was our man for the White House when he chose Joe Biden to be his running mate. I knew after the debating that I would never vote for a candidate who thought that the difference between a hocky mom and a pit bull was lipstick.
  
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