Date: 2008-10-07 22:58 Subject: And Now The Bad News. Security: Public

McCain lost this debate.

Yes Obama played fast and loose with the facts... Does anyone (yes, you too my liberal friends) really believe that Obama is going to cut taxes and cut government spending???

John McCain is either unwilling or unable to articulate a cogent argument which challenges Obama's fairy tale promises... Obama's going to cut taxes AND give us all universal health care??? Right after he replaces gas-burning cars with free unicorns...

I kept waiting for John McCain to call him on this, and he never did. The best chance McCain had was when Barack Obama said that healthcare should be a right. Yes... everyone loves good healthcare, but to articulate healthcare as a government right is fundamental contrary to the free-market system that has made America the country that it is. While there are certainly problems with our healthcare system, but the USA has the most advanced medical care in the world. While Michael Moore loves to repeat the big lie that Cuba has better healthcare, as well as Europe, the truth is that those people who can afford it, flee their own country's healthcare system to get American doctors.

Even when we acknowledge those problems with healthcare as well as the housing crisis, and other economic conditions, McCain needed to tell America how the federal government causes more problems than it creates. Yes, Obama scored some big points saying that Healthcare should be a federal government entitlement/right, but it's an unrealistic fantasy which will make the problem worse. This is the exact failed ideology of LBJ's War on Poverty; i.e. that big government can fix all of these problems. Look at the history of government entitlement programs which have intended to institute equality of result. When the federal government takes control of systems which are best left to the free-market or state/local governments, they simply fail. Look how good the federal government has done with housing and the mortgage crisis! Now we want them taking more control of our healthcare?!?!? Huge Federal Bureaucracies... that'll fix what ails you... Instead of getting a referal from your doctor to see a specialist, now you'll need to get it from a government bureaucrat... *sigh*