McCain: Veterans need better health care

At town hall meetings in Fort Myers and Sun City Center on Saturday, John McCain said the system of providing health care to veterans is broken. McCain said it's wrong that veterans sometimes have to drive an hour to find an appropriate health care provider and then "stand in line to get in line and make an appointment to get an appointment." He said if elected president, he would issue a card to veterans that would give them access to the doctor of their choice for basic health care. McCain will host a town hall meeting Sunday at 11:45 a.m. at Fantasy of Flight, 1400 Broadway Blvd. SE, in Polk City.

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John McCain is a first-class war-hero with integrity, honor, dignity that looks very presidential.

The others cannot even compared.

But most important, McCain can beat Hillary & Obama.

The rest will lose bad.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

we ALL need and deserve better healthcare!

PERIOD!!

there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not having adequate are for EVERYBODY.

[Beltway John]

**NEWS ALERT: John McCain will get the endorsement of popular Governor Charlie Crist

[LP]

Well John, you don't seem to have done anything about healthcare for Vets yet in your 30 years in DC..empty promises my friend!

Actually, health care for vets has been improved. Those who are retired military now have tri-care for life. Yes, it took a retired military man, (Colonel Bud Day), with help from John McCain and many others to make that happen.
Could it be better, absolutely!! Are there still problems within the system? Absolutely. Are there problems in Medicare? Absolutely. I have a husband, who is a disabled vet, who has Alzheimer's, and I have been working with all of these entities. I know from first hand experience that the government is not capable of handling health care for this country.

[Jim]

John McCain will say anything to get elected. First he low-blow's Romney with twisting his words re: Iraq (don't wrestle with a pig John...?) and now he's telling veterans anything he can so solidify their vote.

I'm so tired of this flip-flopper.

http://www.therealmccain.com

Getting Gov Crist's endorsement is great news for Republicans & John McCain.

It will make sure flip-flop Romney doesn't buy a win in Florida.

[Jim]

One of the curiosities of American politics is the media's ongoing infatuation with John McCain. A bit of this is based on things such as McCain's opposition to torture (unfortunately, we can no longer treat opposing torture like opposing child molestation, i.e., something one assumes is standard equipment in a presidential candidate rather than a luxury upgrade). Yet most of the journalistic love affair with the Republican senator from Arizona is based on other factors.

Consider this typical endorsement from the Orlando Sentinel: While McCain "has stuck to his principles at the risk of sinking his campaign," Mitt Romney "has abandoned positions that would have alienated his party's conservative base." (Indeed, I checked a computer database and discovered that, in the national media, Romney is at least six times more likely to be described as a flip-flopper than McCain.)

This does not merely ignore but actually inverts the truth. The fact is that no presidential candidate in either party has flip-flopped as egregiously as McCain on such a wide range of issues. Here's just a small sample of Sen. Straight Talk's recent series of remarkable conversions to politically convenient stances:

-- On abortion rights, McCain has done a 180-degree turn, from favoring only the most minor restrictions and opposing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to supporting an almost total ban, while advocating that the Supreme Court reverse Roe immediately.

-- McCain has transformed himself from a deficit hawk who mocked supply-side economics into someone who sounds like he's drunk deeply from the wackiest vats of supply-side Kool-Aid, to the point where he now claims raising taxes decreases revenues (a claim so wildly in conflict with the facts -- for example, federal tax revenues almost doubled in real terms after the Clinton tax increases -- that it's either a shameless lie or a product of astounding ignorance).

-- In regard to ethanol subsidies, McCain has gone from treating them as the worst sort of pork to becoming a strong supporter of a program despised by economists, but beloved of Iowa farmers and the good people at Archer Daniels Midland.

-- Six years ago, McCain sternly condemned Jerry Falwell as "an agent of intolerance." Eighteen months ago, he gave the commencement address at Falwell's university, while openly embracing one of the most noxious figures of the religious right.

These are just a few examples from a far longer list. On topics ranging from immigration, to campaign finance reform, to gay marriage, to accepting support from various sleazy characters he previously shunned, McCain has either completely reversed his views or seriously equivocated regarding what they are this week.

Yet the media continue to lavish him with worshipful paeans to his supposedly uncompromising commitment to principled leadership no matter what the political cost etc., etc.

Part of this is accounted for by lazy autopilot journalism, which stops people from bothering to check whether the story line they've repeated for years still has any relationship to reality.

But part of it is something worse. When it comes to McCain, many of the sophisticates at the top of the media pyramid are like a masochistic spouse who treats open infidelity as a twisted sort of faithfulness. They love McCain because when he lies to their face he doesn't even pretend to be doing otherwise. According to the pretzel logic of a certain kind of journalism, that counts as candor.

All this would be merely amusing if McCain were not a genuinely tragic figure. The young man who showed such exemplary courage in the face of his North Vietnamese tormenters has become an old man whose courage abandoned him when subjected to the more subtle tortures of worldly ambition.

"Count no man happy," noted the Athenian statesman, "until he is dead."

[old idiot jerk]

He is just lier arrogant like billary bush and all kennedy, he will be so arrogant and moron anyhing his done just bad and act like dictator take out american will .

Gov FL and other senator endors him cuz they all for OPEN BORDER AND GET HIRING BY TYSON FOOD and all they are SCUMS

[old idiot jerk]

JOHN LIBERAL MC CAINNEDY NO VISION JUST LIER ARROGANT WAR MONGER but HE JUST POWER SEEKER. He just wants people to bow down to him and just like billary he say anything to get what he want

[old idiot jerk]

IF JOHN LIBERAL BE PRESIDENT JUST KEEPING BUSH 10 MORE TERMS , THEY BOTH OPEN BORDER AND FREE TRADE LUNATIC WAR MONGER

[Chris]

We must support our troops, both those fighting, and those who fought and risked their lives for us in the past. We owe it to them to provide better care for their lives. I found a great petition to help improve their health care benefits, and, as we gain signatures, money is donated to the American Legion.
http://petitionearth.com/viewpetition.php?id=67
We owe it to our troops, who risked their lives to save us.