Posted on 10/07/2010 7:35:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Insane formatting you have there.
Does anyone else remember the Carter plan for national health insurance? I don’t remember that subject being a major issue at all while Carter was president. Is he now trying to score political points against a dead Kennedy? Is Carter doing revisionist history to paint himself in the best possible light? Does Carter realize that he has gone down in history as an insignificant weak president, not unlike Franklin Pierce or Chester Arthur or Benjamin Harrison????
A good reason for digging up Kennedy’s body and throwing it in the nearest river. That or opening the casket and driving a stake through the heart of the cadaver to make sure he doesn’t rise from the dead.
Of course he has good reason. Nobody really cares though. Ted Kennedy was evil. Jimmy Carter was incompetent and naive to the point of being traitorous. Ted Kennedy burns in hell. Jimmy Carter will simply go into oblivion.
Well, if all this is true, maybe Teddy did do one good thing while he drank away his time here on earth.
I am so impressed the principled, President Jimmy Carter, lacked the courage to attack Kennedy until he was sure that he was well interred and the seal on the grave was hard. Such courage and forthright honesty seems to be the Hallmark of the Progressives...
Throw it in Chappaquiddick - only appropriate!
I don’t remember it either
That’s sort of the point of the article. The health care issue was, if you’ll excuse the pun. peanuts compared to Kennedy’s perfidy with the Soviets when they invaded Afghanistan.
These folks weem to think there is something on health care - back in the day - Carter and all the other presidents.
From
http://www.ontheissues.org/Jimmy_Carter.htm
Pushed national health-insurance bill. (Dec 2000)
Liberal on National Health Insurance. (Jan 1997)
Supports national health insurance. (Oct 1976)
Supports more funding for education & research. (Oct 1976)
Specifically-
Supports national health insurance:
Let me outline for you some of the goals of the next administration in the area of health [insurance]:
We must have a comprehensive program of national health insurance.
We must have government reorganization that will end the bureaucratic fragmentation that now frustrates any hope for a rational and effective national health care policy.
We must encourage alternative delivery systems such as HMOs and rural group practices.
We must clean up the disgraceful Medicaid scandals.
Source: Public Health speech, in “Good As Its People,” p. 231-33 Oct 19, 1976
SO ya, fraud has been an issue for Medicare since before 1976. Politicians (both sides) have done soooo well by us, eh?
Kennedy and Carter had run primary campaigns that slammed each other and built a lot of resentment and hostility between the two.
When it became obvious that Kennedy was not going to win the nomination, (A great big "Thank You" to Mary Jo) a Carter representative approached Kennedy about throwing his support to and fully getting behind Carter.
Kennedy was his usually narcissistic self and refused.
Then at the convention, several party big wigs approached Kennedy in a "For the good of the party" plea and Kennedy relented.
Then when the final vote tally was made and the balloons and confetti were falling, Kennedy came on to the stage and grudgingly shook hands with Carter. Then Kennedy proceeded to parade around the stage waving to everyone totally ignoring Carter who pathetically chased after him to try to get him to raise their hands together in a moment of unity, friendship and triumph.
A sitting President with an unresolved, 10 month long hostage situation in a formerly friendly Iran, gas lines, hyper-inflation and recession was reduced to fawning over a womanizing drunkard in front of the voters of America.
And they couldn't get to the polls fast enough to correct their mistake of four years earlier.
Newsweek Magazine, May 22, 1979. Fat Teddy pushing his plan over the Peanut's plan.
I don’t recall it either, but I was not as avid a spectator of this stuff back then.
Looks like Jimmah gets the scarlet letter(s)...
He probably looks with pride on the damage he did to the nuclear power industry, the Panama Canal, the birth of the financial crisis we are in, etc.
I will always remember the quote from Carter's mother, Miss Lillian: "I should have remained a virgin."
(Okay, brother Billy helped inspire that sentiment...)
His parents were big on German Socialist Workers Party and Adolph Hitler.
So much so, even FDR felt compelled to recall him [Joe, Sr.] from the "Court of St. James".
Most of the Kennedys are plutocrats. They have to buy elections nowadays.
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