Recently in a diary with the help of a comment on this site I have joined with many Dems calling for a single-payer healthcare system. Some like to lump this under the banner Universal healthcare. I called for socialized medicine. I was corrected and it was suggested that it be called "Civilized Medicine." Which I agree wholeheartedly with because the name fits.Quite frankly the plans that are out there fall short. They seemed to be more designed not to dry up the upper-middle class donors that a campaign thrives on. I like quoting Aaron Sorkin because he his a great weaver of political tales. In "American Prsident" there is a great passage where he describes the process of gathering together supporters and launching a campaign:
You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle-income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and characterThe thing is that IS how we do it. We the people drag our candidates down to the level we saw last night. While Sen. Obama tried hard to run a campaign of ideas and goals, the Clintons have trotted out some cleverly disguised misrepresentations.Sen. Clinton crossed the line for me last night. For Sen. Clinton to bring up what an associate attorney did for a particular client, relating to a real estate deal is a foul. Especially IF the truth is that he only did a few billable hours for Tony Rezko. If the truth is that there was nothing illegal about what Sen. Obama did when comes to that real estate deal in Chicago, then it is a foul worth ejection from the game. It is as if Bill owns the team but Newt Gingrich is calling the plays, because what she did last night was right out of his play book. I mean afterall isn't that what a huge part of the Nineties was about, a hyped up real estate deal where there was no illegality on the part of the Clintons. Wasn't that the fundemental basis for Mrs. Clinton's famous "part of a vast right wing conspiracy" statement. She was speaking in response to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. However, she would not have been able to even garner the little bit of credibility she did, if not for years of "Whitewater" investigations. I don't think the House impeaches if they didn't have "Whitewater" in the back of their minds.
I know why Sen. Edwards wants to hang in there. If this is the way this campaign is going to go with Sen. Clinton making misrepresentaions of Sen. Obama's record. Then followed as he must Sen. Obama responding to those charges, then he Sen. Edwards can sit back and watch to see who, if anyone remains standing. In the end he ends up the nominee or gets to be the power broker who gets to choose who runs as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.So in an effort to offer an original, yet archaic idea, I offer this. This one sort of harkens back to the 1960 Convention and all those deals worked out in cigar smoke filled back rooms. We shoot for the stars on the Democratic ticket. As soon as it is known whether or not the nominee is Clinton or Obama, they announce they are running on the ticket together. Lastly and this is out there, announce at the convention, in the acceptance speech that if they win Sen. Edwards, a pitbull of a trial attorney, will be the nominee for Attorney General.So shoot for the stars, first true universal single-payer, "Civilized Medicine." Shoot for the stars and show that we have indetified the three best Democrats to lead this nation in the wake of Bushgate and they are all three pointed right at the Republican Party.
UPDATE: I posted this diary on Daily Kos the other day, so to again quote Mr. Sorkin: "Yea, but we got art"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/25/9843/11339/497/442909
I wanted to predict this but choked I guess!
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