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Posted on 01/23/2010 2:12:39 PM PST by raccoonradio
To the editor:
When Martha Coakley was not voted into Ted Kennedy's seat — and it was Ted's seat, he was in it for 47 years — not only was it a slap in the face of his legacy, but it was a mistake of gargantuan proportions by the people of Massachusetts.
A year ago, the people of this nation and Massachusetts rose up with emotion and passion to exclaim that it was "time for change," and voted in Barack Obama and his policies to ensure that the mistakes of the previous eight years would not repeated. Then, a year later, we turn around and put another representative in office with the same policies as the ones we rose up to change in 2008.
How many times are we going to make the same mistake? How many times are we going to vote in white, upper-middle-class men who are so out of touch with the majority of people in Massachusetts? It's ridiculous.
I guess good looks and a winning smile have now become solid qualifications for getting an important seat like Ted's.
It's like Massachusetts has amnesia. Or perhaps we were just thinking of ourselves.
Universal health care should be a human right. It should not be debatable, argued or blocked. All citizens of a developed nation should have access to quality health care. Anything less is a violation of those basic rights and should be unacceptable.
Almost every other large nation has a form of universal health care, even countries not yet developed: Canada, France, England, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Columbia, Peru, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Singapore, Finland, Thailand, Northern Ireland, Wales, New Zealand and virtually all of Europe — I could go on. Aren't there models enough to base our system on? We already know it works. What more proof do you need?
The rest of the world seems to understand something I guess our nation and the people of Massachusetts don't.
Jennifer Perry
It wasn’t a great choice. But it was a heck of a lot better than the pro gay special rights advocate.
Brown supported Romney care and said the other day he wants federal incentives for states to do likewise.
It’s okay for commies to have money./
“— and it was Ted’s seat, he was in it for 47 years —”
Actually, I think, using this MA voter’s logic, the seat belongs to George III. He had MA long before Ted and is just as “alive” (although he might have for Coakley voted in the last MA election as I’m sure Ted did).
The writer is a racist. If they made a mistakr its because Brown is too liberal.
Oh yea!!! That’s right, keep saying that those morons in MA made a big mistake.
Keep that up and both senate seats will be Republican.
Does an incoming Senator (say especially one of the opposite party) get his predecessor’s office?
Correction
“— and it was Ted’s seat, he was in it for 47 years —”
Actually, I think, using this MA voter’s logic, the seat belongs to George III. He had MA long before Ted and is just as “alive” (although he might NOT have for Coakley voted in the last MA election as I’m sure Ted did).
If you want.
Wait till the Jeanne Light story rips across the airwaves,
the media won’t like being played, even by Obama.
obama’s fault
Marsha can have Ted’s seat in Fenway Park.
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Hey Jennifer, If you like those countrys so much... THen move to one.
The interim senator probably got rid of 'em already.
“Ted’s seat, he was in it for 47 years “
Exhibit A as to why America needs term limits in Congress.
Stop it please!
This guy is cracking me up!
Yup...Boston talk host Howie Carr once talked about a politician—I forget who—who passed on, and when they went into his office they moved a desk or a filing cabinet or something and a whole bunch of empty nip bottles came out...
Um, geography much?
"India...Thailand"
India does have world-class health care...if you go through the private, for-profit system. Much like in Cuba, foreigners (and wealthy locals) with hard currency can get the best doctors, a private hospital room, their own nurse, etc., for a fraction of what you would pay in many western nations.
On the OTHER hand, if you are one of the Indian citizens stuck with the state-run system, you face something very different (follow the link at your own risk - it's not a pretty story.
As for Thailand...the "30 Baht Scheme" policy the ousted PM pursued has not worked very well at all, from what I've read.
Don’t forget 50 years of drunken womanizing.
She wants to limit health care to citizens?! Obviously, she's a racist, sexist, homophobe!
People like Jennifer are the reason why Scott won only by 5 per cent. There were so many people who felt the way she does; had the weather been a bit better, or had someone like Capuano been the candidate (Coakley= clueless), we may have lost the election...it was THAT close (but fortunately not close enough to justify a recount/attempted steal)
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