not so much duped...
Posted By: Kendra on 2008-12-05
In Reply to: Dubya drops the "just folks" act - stumpgrinder
if I could afford it, I would live there, too. I imagine most people would.
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You have been duped......
This man cannot stop pre-existing conditions on insurance companies. If you knew what you were talking about, you would know that. AND if you think you are going to get the SAME healthcare he and the other senators get, you are also living in a dream world. He will NOT do that for you. He said he would out of his own two lips and lied. Is he going to pay for that wonderful insurance plan for you? I am not for insurance companies screwing us over but Obama has promised you something he cannot produce. In talking with insurance agents in our church who have long wanted pre-existing conditions taken off policies they have told me as well that the "pie in the sky" healthcare plan he has said he would get for you is a lie. LIke they said, if he could do that for them, boy they would be the first to jump at it. But they know YOU and I will not be getting that....do you have that kind of money. Obama can promise you the moon but you won't be getting it unless he knows how to pull it down from the Heavens.
I have been around a long time and had many different insurances over the years. My husband and I would love for healthcare to be affordable and accessible but there are just far too many that do not understand why he is flat out lying to you.
My guy, as you assume, is NOT McCain. McCain already knows it is not possible to promise and do these things because insurance companies are private entities, so promising something that is impossible is smarter than lying to everyone.
Obama is already wanting to change his economic policy again. Know about that? He wants to tax you more so you can pay for more people, free handouts to those who do not work, who have never worked. You actually think he can do that by cutting YOUR taxes? If you do, he probably has a moon he can sell you as well.
Your mistaking feeling duped/foolish with hatred
They are two totally different things. I really really really do not hate the guy. I voted for him in the primaries. We were on the phone battling with our families cos they were for Clinton and we were trying to tell them about the Os plans, issues, etc.
We like that the O is a nice looking man, has a nice looking family, has a good strong voice when giving speeches, is physically fit (minus his smoking and possible cancer that lies ahead for him) and especially glad he will not be throwing any "rodeos" for foreign diplomats that come to our country.
However, once he was elected over Clinton the truth started coming out and we felt like quite the fools for buying into his lies. And now his lies are just blatantly out there and he doesn't care if people know he's lying. Our only ignorance was blindly buying into his bull without doing more research on him. The O worshippers/lovers who are cutting down people who have any question about his acquantances, history, citizenship, etc are the ones who are showing their true ignorance. My DH tells me all the time read everything and do not count on one source for information. They have an agenda. Knowledge is what will free the mind.
Anti-choice movement gets duped in a Blogger Baby Hoax
The unmarried mother's story about giving birth to a child diagnosed as terminally ill in the womb hit a major nerve on the Internet.
Every night for the last two months, thousands of abortion opponents across the nation logged on to a blog run by the suburban Chicago woman who identified herself only as "B" or "April's Mom."
People said they prayed that God would save her pregnancy. They e-mailed her photos of their children dressed in pink, bought campaign T-shirts, shared tales of personal heartache and redemption, and sent letters and gifts to an Oak Lawn P.O. box in support.
As more and more people were drawn to her compelling tale, eager advertisers were lining up. And established parenting Web sites that oppose abortion were promoting her blog -- which included biblical quotes, anti-abortion messages and a soundtrack of inspirational Christian pop songs.
By Sunday night, when "April's Mom" claimed to have given birth to her "miracle baby" -- blogging that April Rose had survived a home birth only to die hours later -- her Web site had nearly a million hits.
There was only one problem with the unfolding tragedy: None of it was true.
Not the pregnancy, and not the photos posted on the blog of the supposed mother and Baby April Rose, swaddled in white blankets. The baby was actually a lifelike doll, which immediately raised the suspicion of loyal blog-followers.
"I have that exact doll in my house," said Elizabeth Russell, a dollmaker from Buffalo who had been following the blog. "As soon as I saw that picture, I knew it was a scam."
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She had expected only a handful of friends to read it, but when her first post got 50 comments, she was hooked.
"I've always liked writing. It was addictive to find out I had a voice that people wanted to hear," Beushausen said.
"Soon I was getting 100,000 hits a week, and it just got out of hand," she said. "I didn't know how to stop. ... One lie led to another."
So the lie isn't the problem, but the fact that she got addicted to blogging made her continue on. What a sad and disgusting tale. Using a phony story to whip up the anti-choice movement is pretty vile. A woman has the right to choose in this country, but the religious right will do anything it can to try and take that right away. You never hear them talk about the mother in any of their debates. It's like the woman is only a "vessel" to carry a child and doesn't exist in any other manner. "Bring the vessel here." "How dare the vessel speak out."
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