Tag: debates

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.

Did McCain just call Obama “that one”?

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.

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.

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.