Comments on: 2008 Presidential Forum To Feature Questions From ThinkProgress Readers

By: da324

da324 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:03:46 +0000

Douglas G.
Well said and very true! It’s called the 10th Amnedment to the Constitution and it starts out by saying “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people”.

By: Gwendy MacFarland

Gwendy MacFarland — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:38:25 +0000

I would really like to see a tremendous effort by the next administration to focus on wellness and preventative health care in this country. People in this country are bombarded by ads on TV and elsewhere for prescription drugs for all their problems (which incidently are only prescribed by doctors, not lay people, so why are the drug companies spending huge amounts of money on ads and driving up the cost of those drugs? But that’s another question.)
I would like the creation of a program for wellness and for there to be ads out there for the American people educating them on how to stay well instead or at least the bombardment should be similar to the contrary messages
that saturate us presently. What do you think about a “Wellness Program for America” ?

By: Dave Kisor

Dave Kisor — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:05:41 +0000

California Senate Bill 840 was designed to provide universal health care for everybody in the state, but it was torpedoed by Governor Schwarzenegger when he accepted a considerable amount of money from the health insurance lobby for his reelection campaign (no big secret). That is a very powerful lobby. How would you prevent them from doing to the entire country what they did to California?

By: Douglas G.

Douglas G. — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:00:21 +0000

I do not believe it is my job to work, so that my money pays for someone elses health care. i have a family to think about. not your family, MY family. My bills are hard enough to deal with now, before hitting me up to pay for health care for someone else. If you cannot afford healthcare for your family, dont start a family! The job of the government is to protect the country. Not play in abortion, (which should be a state issue anyways), not to rebuild cities, (again state level). PROTECT the COUNTRY. Quit playing around with what should be state issues. If some state wants to institute statewide healthcare, let em. see if people leave, stay, or move to the state. The care for someone else should not be foisted upon me.

By: S.

S. — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:41:55 +0000

Question for Senator Clinton – Your husband commented in the past that he support welfare reform in order to build the road for congress to vote for national health care reform. Do you hope to follow through with your husband’s agenda? And, do you think congress will respond in the way your husband hoped?

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:44:51 +0000

What steps would you take to ensure the appropriate education of our youth with neurobiological illnesses?

By: da324

da324 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:11:51 +0000

Bob Ulmer,
If the United States was interested in the security of this nation; they would close the borders now. The only reason we are in Iraq is because of the lies this administration has told the American public. What ever happened to Osama Bin Laden? You know, that guy our government funded years ago with weapons and money. Oh, that’s right, he was the escuse to invade a country who didn’t do anything to our country. The war is for profit by corporations like the Carlyle Group that’s headed by George Bush’s pappy. You’re right about not letting terrorist run amuck, but you can’t attack countries because you suspect they house them.

By: da324

da324 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:02:37 +0000

Bluedog,
I agree 100%, but if we don’t put people in office that uphold the principles this country was founded on, then it might as well be broken. A system is only as good as the people running it. So, check out this link and see the how the candidate you plan on voting for votes when it comes to important issues for this countries security.

http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html

By: Cris Y.

Cris Y. — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:34:45 +0000

Talk, talk, talk, we would like to see something get done for real. We are tired and bored of the same old retoric coming from Washington D. C. Why is it that the backbone(small business) of this great country of America are being left to the wolves(lobbyists, special interest groups, politicians, and ,the record profit making, large corporations)? How and when will you address(this means actually getting something accomplished) the issue of healthcare for the thousands of small businesses in this country?

By: Christopher F. Vota

Christopher F. Vota — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:22:47 +0000

As President, will you actively seek prosecution of any and all confederates who illegally placed George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House? Would prosecution be sought for any of these people and others connected to the multitude of crimes committed against the American people, the environment and the World during the eight years previous to your inauguration? If no active prosecution is sought, do you promise not to use your office to intervene on behalf of anyone connected with these crimes, be they arrested for contempt of Congress or sentenced in a court of law and in fact, deploy US Marshalls to bring the indicted to justice?

By: ty

ty — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:11:57 +0000

Questions to candidates: Besides making affordable healthcare a centerpiece for your executive office bid, how do you intend to pay for it, implement it, and sell it to the public? Also, some of us can remember what happened to the suggestion of universal healthcare in days gone by. So, how do you suggest to break through the political obstacles and roadblocks to achieve needed healthcare reform this time around? Thank-you.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:27:33 +0000

I can only say as Ind. The Dems have one hell of a field.

By: SHC

SHC — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:54:05 +0000

It is a fact that the number of people with all types of illnesses, some quite serious, who seek alternative remedies instead of big pharma drugs and treatments, either out of choice or necessity, is constantly increasing. These people have to pay out of their own pockets whereas in places such as Europe, China and Japan, alternative medicine is incorporated into the mainstream. Isn’t it about time that such people in this country got included in any national scheme or in any other type of insurance coverage?

If a person has been diagnosed with an ailment and seeks remedies that are usually cheaper than the conventional, they should be rewarded, not penalized as they now are.

By: GQ

GQ — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:11:26 +0000

I can’t make it, but I’d like to see an answer to this question(s):

In the past, Republicans have fought against health care reform on strictly political grounds: to politically weaken a Democratic President.

How has your experience, in government or elsewhere, prepared you to handle a similar effort to prevent broadly supported, well written health care proposals? If political opponents aim to weaken your presidency to prevent reform, what specific actions will you take to get your policies passed?

By: 9-11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB

9-11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:03:47 +0000

WHERE’S RON PAUL?

By: nnes

nnes — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:36:43 +0000

Question they canâ€™t answer. How would you fight Islamo Fascism?
Comment by Patrick1 â€” March 22, 2007 @ 6:02 pm

Huey Long said: “When fascism comes here, we will call it anti-fascism.”

Oh, the health care. This debate is for the birds. You either put people first, or you put corporate profits first. That’s all there is to it, and I don’t think anyone in the lineup there, except Kucinich and maybe Obama, I don’t know about him, have it in them to be honest about it. As Kucinich said before: “We’re already paying for universal health care. We just not getting it!”

By: Fiona McInnis

Fiona McInnis — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:34:46 +0000

I’d like to hear the candidates address this question: Why not Medicare for All or a similar Single Payer Health Care System that removes private insurance companies completely from the process?

By: Bob Ulmer

Bob Ulmer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:34:08 +0000

Who, if anyone will speak up and enforce justice in the world if not the United States? Pulling out of Iraq to soon will not make the world a safer place! There is no Honor in turn and run! On the suject of terrorism, how do you reason with unreasonable people?
There is no quick fix fellow Americans! The task of keeping peace in this world will never end as long as man walks on planet earth! Solve these things and there will be peace:Lust,Gluttony,Greed,
Sloth,Wrath,Envy,and Pride! All of these things are alive and well in all the world today, especially in Washington, DC!

By: Bluedog49

Bluedog49 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:14:03 +0000

da324, to some of us, patriotism means never giving up the goal of making this a better country. Our civil government still enjoys the basic framework our Founders had in mind. The fact that it’s not working properly doesn’t mean it’s a bad system. Thomas Jefferson predicted the real problem:

â€œI hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. â€

By: da324

da324 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:44:56 +0000

Bluedog,
This government and the blind loyalty to it is what cracks me up. The masses do not use critical thinking; they just follow along with no understanding of anything outside of American Idol! There’s a reason our leaders don’t close the borders and stop the massive flood of ILLEGAL immigration; it allows them to control more illiterate people while the middle class gets wiped out. Why do you think all of the third world countries are in the shape they are in? It’s because there are some smart people and a whole bunch of illiterate ones. We are a young country headed in the same direction, just wait and see!