That's because the real middle american was not in attendance.

Chris Matthews asked Keith Olbermann if Mr. Skvara would be the one to change American political history. Yeah, Chrissie, he's right up there with "Mr. Pony Tail" from the '92 debate, who asked what the candidates would do to be a "father" to all of us and take care of us.

Good point,USA...the man put his faith in the Union; that is who "screwed" him, to quote Matthews. People who join unions lord it over the rest of us, bragging about their privilege, how they don't even have to pick up a piece of trash off the floor where they work, they are so special. Then when, inevitably, the gravy train grinds to a halt, they want everyone else to do for them what the union did.

The sad part is the people don't see the similarities between what happened with the union, and government-paid health care. The government promises pie-in-the-sky, just like the steelworkers' union did, and people join the "union." Then when there's no money, the government can't just declare bankruptcy like LTV, but they can and do stop spending on innovations and equipment, close hospitals, and end up making people wait a year for an MRI, to save money.

Just finished reading a story about people in Canada, coming to the US for treatment, and then suing the Canadian government to pay for it.

The Ugly TruthAbout Canadian Health Care

It's a long read, but here's how it starts:

Mountain-bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer. Her doctor suggested Erbitux—a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast-growing cells in the body—and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment. But if Erbitux offered hope, Aucoin’s insurance didn’t: she received one inscrutable form letter after another, rejecting her claim for reimbursement. Yet another example of the callous hand of managed care, depriving someone of needed medical help, right? Guess again. Erbitux is standard treatment, covered by insurance companies—in the United States. Aucoin lives in Ontario, Canada.

When Aucoin appealed to an official ombudsman, the Ontario government claimed that her treatment was unproven and that she had gone to an unaccredited clinic. But the FDA in the U.S. had approved Erbitux, and her clinic was a cancer center affiliated with a prominent Catholic hospital in Buffalo. This January, the ombudsman ruled in Aucoin’s favor, awarding her the cost of treatment. She represents a dramatic new trend in Canadian health-care advocacy: finding the treatment you need in another country, and then fighting Canadian bureaucrats (and often suing) to get them to pick up the tab.

But proponents here continue to tout the Canadian system as a viable model for us. Where will WE go, and who will WE sue for the treatment we don't get here???

PERFECT, USA!

I am saving your posted reply so I can use it in heated debates with my union/democrat reletives who think all their problems (stemming way back to the 1970s) are a result of Pres. George W. Bush, and the Republicans.

The NE Ohio area I live in has been in a union and democrat stranglehold for decades and decades and decades.  Their gripes, bitching-and-moaning, has NEVER subsided in all those years ... even when the democrats were in complete power in D.C. ... No, the angry barbs were then aimed at the companies and managements ... never the unions or democrats they were/are slaves to like some sick relationship between junkie and drug dealer. 

Every time one of my union/democrat relatives spout that mantra "the democrats are for the poor and the working man ..." I retort, "Oh, you bought and paid for that, alright!  Yeah, they're for the poor and working man ... their for keeping the poor poor, and for keeping you working for the union that keeps the democrat pockets full ... If anything changed for the better for the poor or the working man in this country the democrats wouldn't have a voting base."

I like that, Spock.. good one.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

They are wrong, the middle has not moved left. The special interest
groups have made it look that way.

I think that there is going to be a awaking in this next
election. The left that thinks middle America is starting to look for Mao’s
little red book is mistaken. The Democrats ran pro life, pro gun
candidates  the last go around and
barely won. With the help of the MSM and a large batch of pissed off
Republicans.

Americans do not like to loose wars.

Americans do not like their taxes raised.

A majority (IMHO) hates a nanny state.

Americans WANT OUR DAM BORDERS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The biggest point for Republicans. NO RINO’s

I would hope that some of the standing Republicans have been
watching what is going on.

Stop the spending, win this war, make tax cuts permanent,  punish companies that hire illegals ,and
for Gods sake, close the border!

And food for thought: for the really gutsy, A FLAT TAX OR
FAIR TAX!!!

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

As well as a make over on the TV show:“What not to wear”..

And before any of you start, my wife watches it.       

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.
Ronald Reagan- 40th Anniversary of D-Day

"We are really the center."

You know, they may be right. Many who used to be "mainstream Democrats" are now succumbing to the lure of the far left, with its advocacy for ever more redistribution of wealth and a union-like gravy train where everything is free. What they don't see is the train wreck down the road when the government programs run out of money, just like the unions bled dry the companies they contracted with. And even then they won't understand that they were the instrument of their own destruction. They really will be "bewildered" by what happens.

Also, health care is not free in Canada, it is payed for with taxes collected by federal and provincial government. -bertdw

We need to change how we refer to "government money." Any time we talk about having the "government" pay for something, the term "taxpayer dollars" or simply "the taxpayers" should be substituted. When people realize (I mean REALLY realize, as in having the fact shoved in their faces) that the "government" doesn't have any money of its own, attitudes on what to provide for "free" might begin to change.

  She neglected to point out that the steel worker in question is a professional activist. Also here is clown who retired at age 53 whinning that someone slese should pay his bills, I have no sympathy for this buffoon.