Reply #8: "intellectually dishonest"

[ThatPoetGuy]

Hmm, let's see -- "people are uncovered oh noes in Obama's plan"

no, that's not contempt for the intellectually dishonest. That's contempt for the people who won't have access to medical care under his plan.

Claiming it's contempt for the intellectually dishonest -- now THAT'S dishonest.

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I'm an Edwards supporter and I haven't made up my mind yet about what I'm going to do. It was an article in Time or Newsweek last year that made me an Edwards supporter. There was a lot in the article, but one thing struck me in particular.

Edwards had a supporter with him. A miner. This guy had been born mute. In his thirties, an operation became available that could have fixed his palate and allowed him to speak. But he couldn't afford the operation, because being mute prevented him from earning much money. He couldn't even work his way up to a supervisory position in the mine.

So years went by, and he still couldn't speak. And years turned into decades.

When he was in his fifties, a nonprofit group at a state fair became aware of his problem, and they fixed it for free.

This man was mute for fifty years. Because he couldn't afford a five thousand dollar operation.

It's horrible that this happens in America, but it does. Obama's plan -- and Obama's supporters, like yourself -- have shown no interest in helping people like that guy. Poor people are uncovered, "oh noes," they don't really matter anyway.