01/10/2008
Anne Rice Endorses Clinton/Obama Ticket
Novelist Anne Rice, who returned to her Roman Catholic roots in '96 after years as an atheist, and is working on a trilogy of novels about the life of Jesus Christ (the first, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
David Kuo of the Huffington Post writes: "This video isn't just the video of a famed female novelist exulting in Sen. Clinton's win. It is also the voice of a woman from a generation that grew up in a world where people sneered at the thought of a female president. It is the voice of a woman like all those women who turned out in New Hampshire to vote for Sen. Clinton."
Here's a little factoid, for some of you newer readers. Anne Rice once left a comment on Towleroad, back in 2004 on the 4th of July, when her son, the novelist Christopher, was filling in for me while I was taking a week off over the summer. You can read it here.
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I guess real strength would be telling your vice president, "No, Dick, I'm not going to drag my country into war based on a bunch of lies." I'd hope Hillary, John or Barack would have the strength not to do that.
This Democratic Primary Race need not get too nasty, y'all. No sense in having a divided party, and a bunch of disappointed old Democrats like me--furious at both the Obama and Clinton camps for leading the party to a 2008 disaster.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Jan 10, 2008 1:59:06 PM
Medicaid already covers the poor, including many that don't have health insurance now--why does everyone forget that? Michael Moore wants to eliminate private health insurance altogether and perhaps private health care too, though he didn't really go into details regarding the differences from one European country to the next. Too bad he's the liberal spokesman for health care these days. Quelle visage!
Posted by: anon (gmail.com) | Jan 10, 2008 2:12:54 PM
Barack Obama is naive and inexperienced and is a fake asshole who has been shitty towards Mrs. Clinton. I think Hillary should select Richardson as her VP.
Posted by: Stenar | Jan 11, 2008 4:09:24 AM
Regarding paying for poor people's health care... 1- It was previously pointed out that yes we do pay for their health care in the emergency room. Some preventative measures before they get to the emergency room would lower our overall health care expenses.
2- We spend twice as much on health care in the USA as they do in France, however, France's health care system is ranked #1 in the world by the World Health Organization. The US health care system is ranked #37, despite the fact that we spend twice as much as them.
3- One example of the outcome of France's health care system, they have a 70% survival rate from cancer after treatment, whereas we have a 30% survival rate in America.
I'd much rather have France's system that costs half as much and provides twice the results. It's time for socialized medicine in America.
Posted by: Stenar | Jan 11, 2008 4:15:46 AM
Anne Rice lost all credibility when she started shilling for the Catholic Church. Sorry, Anne, but Catholicism cannot be practiced unless you buy the entire bill of goods the Vatican pushes. Which means you have a problems with gays. The Church will simply not accept your liberalism (if that's what you still profess). The Church will excommunicate you in a snap! Anyway, why not a Obama/Clinton ticket? That's one I could support, not the other way around.
Posted by: mike | Jan 11, 2008 7:12:01 AM
Anne Rice lost all credibility when she started shilling for the Catholic Church. Sorry, Anne, but Catholicism cannot be practiced unless you buy the entire bill of goods the Vatican pushes. Which means you have a problems with gays. The Church will simply not accept your liberalism (if that's what you still profess). The Church will excommunicate you in a snap! Anyway, why not a Obama/Clinton ticket? That's one I could support, not the other way around.
Posted by: mike | Jan 11, 2008 7:12:19 AM