The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101088   Message #2235155
Posted By: CarolC
12-Jan-08 - 11:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
I need to address this bit, Bobert...

But he ain't the guy who can restore the good feelings...

Do you have health coverage, Bobert? If you do, perhaps you can't understand how stressful it is to be over the age of fifty and not have any at all. It's like a black cloud hanging over us that never goes away. It's always there, lurking in the background, even during the happiest of occasions. Restore what good feelings? We've never had anything like that in this country, and we're not likely to as long as almost 50 million of us don't have any access to health care, and about the same number of us are underinsured, and employers can use health insurance as a form of economic blackmail at the bargaining table.

Bring on the good feelings! I'm ready for it. But it ain't going to happen until this criminal state of affairs has been corrected.