McCain is continuing to confuse the Hillary Clinton plan with Obama’s, accusing him of imposing mandates. Not that the mandates are a bad thing — the Clinton plan was better than those offered by both candidates, though not as good as a single-payer, universal program.
Author: hankkalet
Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
Debate blogging 5
Did McCain just call Obama “that one”?
Debate blogging 4
Social Security is not that tough, John McCain says. Just sit down across the aisle — blah, blah, blah.
Didn’t he say he was going to answer the question?
As for Medicare — another commission?
I’m still waiting for the answer to the question, by the way.
Debate blogging 3
Tom Brokaw is wrong. Not everyone agrees that Social Security is a ticking time bomb. And the problem with Medicare is not Medicare, but our broken health care system.
Debate blogging 2
I think Obama’s approach — the “scalpel” approach, he calls it — makes more sense than an across-the-board cut, though he neglected to talk about defense spending, which needs a hatchet taken to it.
