Only three such candidates ever seemed certifiably insane to me: Daniel Imperato, Robert Milnes, and Alan Keyes.

Milnes, to his credit, knows he has mental health issues. I don’t know what Imperato thinks he has, but thankfully no one takes him seriously. Alan Keyes, on the other hand, terrifies the living shit out of me.

Just putting that out there.

First, to confirm a piece of the story…when I was traveling north to Maine a few weeks ago, I heard radio ads from Wal-Mart supporting healthcare reform. Yes, Wal-Mart has their nose in it somehow.

Now…for the upside-down coalitions and posturing…

What the genuine “left” and “progressive community” (not the PDA) seem to want is “Single-Payer, Universal Health Care.” That is the most generous plan, and the most left.

Obama is being more “centrist” and “to the right” of the folks like that who helped elect him. Obama is coddling the insurance companies, and siding with moderates by wanting only minor reforms.

In our area, it is expressed by the fake progressive/Democrat-front group absolutely lobbying for Obama’s plan and hiding or deriding Single-Payer all the way since before election day.

So, when Conservatives critique Obama’s plan as “socialist” and “too far to the left” it is just mind-boggling. Oh, that the man was to the left of say Bill Clinton. But, he is not. And, his plan is a band-aid, a moderate position, a spit in the face to real progressives/health care activists.

Now, there is the SEIU. Keyes and others are claiming that the SEIU are violent bullies supporting the leftist position. Then, they are saying the SEIU is in cahoots with Obama.

It is all so confusing!

I think that the SEIU is in cahoots with “the status quo”, the Democratic elected officials, the Republican elected officials, the insurance companies and the lobbyists, to pretend that they are “the left” while supporting a mediocre, moderate, inadequate, somewhat right proposal on health care.

It is all so difficult to figure out.

Especially when people try to polarize things, and in their drawing of lines, they put Obama in on “the left.” That is the start of the craziness.

Now, maybe there could be some conversation about “statist” health plans versus “free market” health plans. And, I think on that measure, Obama is proposing to combine the worst of both worlds.

Thanks,
Kimberly Wilder

lol

Response – As illustrated at my website TheCorruptionOfAlanKeyes.blogspot.com Alan Keyes is unfortunately the last person who should be discussing a ” moral dimension.”

Don Grundmann Vice-Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party.

Don Grundmann Vice-Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party.