[lbo-talk] I'll be voting in TX Dem primary - who should I vote for?

[B.]

Hillary and Obama are running a lot of TV ads here in
Texas. In Hillary's ads, to my surprise, she is
flat-out, unequivocally, stating she supports and will
fight for universal health care. And her ads even have
blurbs from Paul Krugman on them ("one of the nation's
leading economists, Paul Krugman, has said Hillar's
health care plan..."). I know that in his analysis of
Edwards', Obama's, and Clinton's health care plans,
Krugman said Edwards' was the most left, HRC's second,
and Obama's the more conservative (of the 3). But he
added that HRC's and Edwards' plans looked remarkably
similar.

For all I know, Krugman is working with the Clinton
campaign or something, and maybe that top secret gig
Max B. Sawicky alluded to months back at maxspeak.org
was his going to work for Obama, hence Mr. Sawicky's
championing of Mr. Charisma here. Or not.

So, yeah, what candidates say before elections to get
elected - Read my lips: no new taxes" -- and what they
do afterwards, who knows? That doesn't just go for
HRC. But on the TV ads, Clinton is, in no uncertain
terms, pushing universal health care big time to
Texans, Krugman quotes and all.

-B.

dredmond at efn.org wrote:

"Not at all. The two Dem candidates are slightly less
awful than the Rethuglicans, but the only way we're
getting universal healthcare is through a
Godzilla-sized social movement. Neither candidate is
going to touch the medical-insurance complex with a
ten-meter pole."