What happened to Universal Health Care?

[Neo-wobbly]

We thought we had it; from Hillary "Champion of Health Care" Clinton, to Barack "Change" Obama, Universal Health Care was on the agenda, and there is no way that any Republican could beat that platform against their disastrous handling of the last 7 years.

But wait! The old saying that when things are too good to be true, they usually are, still holds, and wouldn't you know it, the shoe-in winners of the worst landslide victory in a generation don't seem to be landsliding; even the best scenarios show either candidate in a statistical dead heat with McCain. How can this be?

I would like to humbly suggest that twisting the term "Universal Health Care" to mean "mandatory purchase of private insurance" is, and I know this is a stretch, the stupidest thing the Democratic Party has done since they let Ford pardon Nixon.

This is the attitude the Republicans are supposed to have, not Democrats; this is a sop to the insurance companies, and all the rhetoric about "affordable premiums" are just whitewash. What's affordable to a family already having to choose between heating their house and putting food on the table? What good are tax credits to people who don't pay taxes because they don't make any money? And how would they pay for it in the first place?!

No, they have run out in front of a popular movement, and led it into a brick wall, and their policies on Iraq, education, and everything else are the same way: Orwellian doublespeak to hide the fact that they are opposing what they claim to support.

If this were not the case, then why aren't either of the candidates up in arms over the latest news: Hillary went nuclear over a cheap shot at Chelsea, but why isn't she also outraged that the Supreme Court ruled that a woman can't sue her employer for sexual assault and rape because her contract stated that she would go through "arbitration" (her employer picks the arbitrator!)? Obama has stated that the Supreme Court was wrong in their ruling against an integrated school district, but why hasn't he said anything about their rejection of an ACLU lawsuit over illegal wiretapping?

The fact is, neither of them will do anything that would upset their corporate owners campaign contributors, and that means anything that would help you or me.