But he helped write McCain's healthcare plan. Awesome.

This is some insane, insane bullshiat.

Apparently, banned Fark trolls are now writing McCain's healthcare plans.

So just who the hell actually speaks for the McCain campaign these days? That Tucker guy? Cause everytime he opens his mouth, he makes McCain seem even more doddering than usual.

isn't this their answer every time any of his advisers say anything?

"So instead of producing worthless statistics that people fling around in vacuous editorials and pointless debates, the Census Bureau should produce meaningful numbers, identifying all of the sources of funds people will draw on if they need medical care," said Goodman, who helped write McCain's health care plan.

Dude. You're not even trying. Millions of people can't get health care and your suggestion is one of linguistics and semantics?

So it sounds like they want to do the same thing they did with "unemployed" people by re-categorizing as something else since they have run out of unemployment so that it appears that there are less unemployed people on paper. So uninsured people would be called what?

Tip for the McCain folks: calling something by a different name does not solve the problem, it makes it worse since the point of calling it by some other name is so you can ignore the problem.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: So just who the hell actually speaks for the McCain campaign these days?

It sure isn't John McCain. (Pops)

JohnnyC: Tip for the McCain folks: calling something by a different name does not solve the problem, it makes it worse since the point of calling it by some other name is so you can ignore the problem.

Pawlenty did that with the word "tax" here in Minnesota. he calls them "fees" or "revenue enhancers" after promising to not raise taxes.

JohnnyC [TotalFark] Quote 2008-08-28 04:51:29 PM
So it sounds like they want to do the same thing they did with "unemployed" people by re-categorizing as something else since they have run out of unemployment so that it appears that there are less unemployed people on paper. So uninsured people would be called what?

Tip for the McCain folks: calling something by a different name does not solve the problem, it makes it worse since the point of calling it by some other name is so you can ignore the problem.

Please allow me, someone who has "no connection" to the McCain campaign, but who authored his health plan, to retort.
A Rose by another name would smell sweeter.

Another one:
That plan would use a combination of tax incentives and market competition to make health care more affordable.

And for those who can't afford it still? I guess the icy scythe of death is always willing to help.

baka-san: isn't this their answer every time any of his advisers say anything?

Should I have to remind you he is a POW?

FeedTheCollapse: baka-san: isn't this their answer every time any of his advisers say anything?

Should I have to remind you he is a POW?

you win the thread.

JohnnyC: So uninsured people would be called what?

Cash customers

When in doubt, deny or lower the bar...

LOVE how he shows responsibility...

Does that mean people with cancer will shoot themselves in the leg so they can get treatment in the ER? Neat idea!

Priceless...

You Wont Find Me

I hear that McCain is a war hero and a former POW.

POW POW Pow

Under the bus with him! Heave!

/It IS a lot more fun with the shoe on the other foot. I could get used to this.

Funk Brothers:

I keep thinking this guy is a bot, the way he keeps posting the same things.

Very odd.

OT: Makes sense to me.

The only thing that speaks for McCain is his experience as George W Bush's sidekick a POW.

I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

iaazathot: I hear that McCain is a war hero and a former POW.

I've got two (2) Internets for anyone who can find a link to a video from Conan O'Brien making fun of John McCain during the 2000 republican nomination race, where he says, "You're a Veteran? Oh, I hadn't heard..."

It made me laugh so hard then, and my roommate and I quote it pretty regularly whenever someone pulls a Captain Obvious. I think it's fitting to dig up and make a meme out of.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

Tough. We need it, we are getting it, and you can whine all you want about.

Remember, John McCain has had government-provided health care since the day he was born in a government hospital.

Barack Obama had a mother who died in massive medical debt, uninsured and uninsurable.

JohnnyC: So it sounds like they want to do the same thing they did with "unemployed" people by re-categorizing as something else since they have run out of unemployment so that it appears that there are less unemployed people on paper.

or how they made NCLB look like it was working, by taking students who drop out because they can't pass the tests and categorize them as getting GED's indeterminately.

*facepalm*

McCain has been on the Gov't healthcare dole since his birth. He knows nothing about being uninsured. Hell, even his birth was paid for by the DOD/Gov't.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

You're taking care of their sorry asses already idiot.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

I missed the part where the founding fathers claimed the Constitution to be inflexible with the times.

I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

Then get rid of your health insurance. You shouldn't be a burden on others in the plan should you get sick.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: So just who the hell actually speaks for the McCain campaign these days?

MindfulModeration: I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

Take your crazy 'living document' theories over to commie fag land, you socialist commie fag.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

I take it you are paying for all of your medical expenses in cash then.

Obdicut: Apparently, banned Fark trolls are now writing McCain's healthcare plans.

I *KNEW* I heard that somewhere else before.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

UNITED States of America.

/UNITED we stand, divided we fall.

redneckgeek: I missed the part where the founding fathers said I had to take care of your sorry ass.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Don't like it? Leave.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: MindfulModeration: I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

Take your crazy 'living document' theories over to commie fag land, you socialist commie fag.

I'm sorry, my sarcasm meter is broken. Were you being serious?

OK, so I'm avg joe family guy. With the wife and I both working we make about 100K a year. I may have a few more toys than the guy making 60K but I'm just as broke.

So, how does universal healthcare help my family.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: MindfulModeration: I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

Take your crazy 'living document' theories over to commie fag land, you socialist commie fag.

Oh, you're from Texas. Who'd've thunk it.

Five and a half years in Hanoi without health insurance, my friends.

Obdicut: This is some insane, insane bullshiat.

Apparently, banned Fark trolls are now writing McCain's healthcare plans.

I was under the assumption that banned Fark trolls were now in charge of Greenlighting Fark political submissions.

Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: MindfulModeration: I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

Take your crazy 'living document' theories over to commie fag land, you socialist commie fag.

This definitely needs something...a little Thyme perhaps.
/sniff

What's the big deal? That's been Bush's plan all along!

MindfulModeration: I'm sorry, my sarcasm meter is broken. Were you being serious?

Nobody could say that and be serious.

randomstranger: Oh, you're from Texas. Who'd've thunk it.

Kidding, sweetheart. I was kidding.

Clearly, McCain supports Darwin.

If you aren't healthy enough to live without medical care until you die of natural causes, we don't want you contributing to the gene pool.

Pernicious Q. Varmint: Five and a half years in Hanoi without health insurance, my friends.

I've never had health insurance. That's 23 more years without health insurance than McCain.

JohnnyC: Tip for the McCain folks: calling something by a different name does not solve the problem, it makes it worse

No, it makes it better...

To get elected.

Word play works wonders on a certain segment of society...

Tesseractor: Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: MindfulModeration: I also missed the part where they said that future American citizens should automatically default to the opinions of 230 year old men who shiat in buckets and owned slaves.

Take your crazy 'living document' theories over to commie fag land, you socialist commie fag.

This definitely needs something...a little Thyme perhaps.
/sniff

Meh, it's not the worst I've gotten from a Texan. You really have to admire a state that can call you a communist-nazi-fag-jew, with a straight face.