Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e18g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "John W." Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Healthcare Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:23:47 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 43 Distribution: world Message-ID: <239a45af-3b35-4cb1-bd05-5b061c7dd793@e18g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> References: <6937f807-ad61-43fa-847f-5aa8457d0fcb@h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <2tap855kmgemc60sqp22fk550ueaqpab6k@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.138.0.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250771027 30131 127.0.0.1 (20 Aug 2009 12:23:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:23:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e18g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=170.138.0.11; posting-account=d_4qMQkAAAAoC3cPt9leEr6UZXdXfvYA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:168313 On Aug 19, 9:10=A0pm, The 2-Belo wrote: > The impression I get is that despite electing Obama, the United States is= still > a deeply conservative nation that is violently peanut-allergic to anythin= g that > might be construed as being socialist or government-centric in nature, no= matter > what its merits might be. > Yet they drive on roads maintained by government, use government electricity, call the fire department when there's an emergency, attend public universities/junior colleges, go to public schools, mail letters using the government post office, etc. > I can't even mention one word of support for US health care overhaul on a= ny > online forum without being hysterically flamed for being a "sheep" or a > "mindless lemming" who blindly supports the filthy lying Commie-leaning > government. Most of the time they don't even want to debate the actual pr= oposal. > I'm a bit scared of the lying that's going on. And that's what it is. I've had this discussion with conservative friends who just won't listen. They want so badly to hate Obama but can't because they're afraid people will think they're racist (and they might be, just a little; most people are), so they're really venting on this topic. > It's startling how panicked everyone is getting about this. I honestly fe= ar that > at some point, due to this reactionary frenzy, someone will end up gettin= g > killed. Especially now that folks are openly carrying firearms to Obama speeches. There was a great act on The Daily Show (Comedy Central) where the black 'journalist' went to a voting booth to exercise his 15th amendment right to vote, and was drinking Jack Daniels to exercise his right to get drunk. Too bad the people who need to understand that point probably won't. John W.