Hey geezers! John McCain’s gonna cut Medicare and you’re going to grow old miserably without all those drugs you need.
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John McCain’s healthcare plan includes taxing benefits and cutting Medicare and Medicaid. It’s enough to make you sick says this 30-second spot from the Obama camapign.
A new ad from the Obama campaign uses a sound bite from last night’s debate to take a jab at the McCain healthcare plan.
Sound Bite: “So what one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away.”
The Obama ad releases a post-VP debate spot featuring the Senator from Scranton criticizing the McCain healthcare plan.
Sound Bite: “Taxing your healthcare benfit, I call that the ultimate bridge to nowhere.”
“Bush-McCain policies” have ruined the US economy says this new Obama ad, and “now John MCain wants to do the same to our health care.”
In a speech today in St. Louis, Barack Obama says his tax plan would “cut taxes for 95% of workers,“ while John McCain’s proposals would provide “tax breaks and loopholes” for big corporations and wealthy Americans. He also pledges to bring “Democrats and Republicans together” to provide “affordable, quality healthcare for all.”
At a town meeting in West Virginia, the former president takes issue with a heckler who said Hillary didn’t do anything about healthcare when she was first lady.
“Portable, affordable healthcare” is one the “bold new solutions” featured in John McCain’s latest ad.
Who says the Republicans don’t care about healthcare. John McCain lays out his plan in this 60-second spot: tax credits, “choice and competition,” more walk-in clinics and community health centers, etc. Details presumably to follow.
Sound Bite: “The problem with health care in America is not the quality of healthcare. It’s the availability and the affordability.”
In this 60-second radio spot running in Wyoming a woman describes her son’s medical problems, which are being taken care of by the federal government’s Children’s Health Insurance Program. My husband and I want some of that federal healthcare coverage too, she says. Hillary’s got a plan for them.
Hillary Clinton gets all finger-pointing “angry” over a couple of Obama campaign pieces that criticize her on healthcare and NAFTA. She promises fireworks at next week’s debate in Cleveland.
Later in Akron, Barack Obama explains the differences between their healthcare plans and says he’s the one who can “get it done” because he “can bring people together.”
Sound Bite: [On NAFTA] “You can’t be for something or take credit for an administration and 35 years of experience and then when you run for president suggest somehow that you didn’t really mean what you said back then. It doesn’t work that way.”
Hillary Clinton’s latest commercial boasts that she fought before universal health care before it was popular. And it certainly wasn’t.
Sound bite: “Because health care is a moral obligation, not a privilege.”
As Hillary Clinton said in last night’s debate, “We’re just getting warmed up.” Today she goes after Barack Obama with a clip showing Barack Obama seeming to support a single-payer healthcare system in 2003, while stating in last night’s debate that he never said he was in favor of a single-payer system. More Clinton “fact-checking” of Obama’s record here.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton mixed it up a bit at last night’s Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, SC.
Here Obama says that Hillary and Bill Clinton make statements about him that aren’t true. Check out the reaction shots of Hillary.
Longer version here.
A fired-up Hillary Clinton says universal healthcare is a “core Democratic principle” and she will “go to the mat for it.”
John Edwards says the American people don’t care about Obama and Clinton’s “squabbling.” He talks about his healthcare and anti-poverty plans.
Barack Obama invokes his mother’s death of cancer at age 53 to make a case for his healthcare plan in this 30-second spot. Using family members (living or dead) as political props is standard operating procedure by most candidates running for high office. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s awkward and sometimes it’s creepy.
