First off, I want to state that I'm not politically active. I've never voted, never been to a political rally, don't follow politics at all unless the Colbert Report happens to be on Comedy Central when I'm bored. That being said, it's hard to ignore the Republican presidential candidate race now that Rick Perry has decided to throw his hat in. So, since I'm being inundated with the news coverage anyway, I've decided to become more informed.
The debate over national healthcare, known sarcastically as "Obamacare", sits at the center stage of most of the Republican debates, along with the economy. Personally having no problem with all Americans being allowed access to insurance, I guess that the issue for Republicans is in the recipe for this, not the actual result. Oh well, to each their own.
However,this article on Texas Liberal, a blog written by Neil Aquino, seems dead set in chastising Mitt Romney for not claiming something he didn't want to claim in the first place (Visit Texas Liberal).
Aquino writes how newly obtained White House records indicate that senior Obama adminstration officials used the Massachusetts health-care law as a model for the national one. The article also says that some of the same health-care advisors and experts that aided Romney (who enacted this health-care law as Governor of Massachusetts) were also used. Big deal. What the article doesn't say is that Romney himself never advised the White House.
I realize, of course, that the Texas Liberal is written for exactly that: the liberal. But that doesn't excuse Aquino's railing of Romney for not supporting an idea that isn't his. Romney is on the record as saying that the health-care law of Massachusetts isn't a "one-size-fits-all" model to be used for the entire United States. Saying that Romney is "sick" for refusing to endorse Obama's Health Care Reform thereby preventing millions of Americans of becoming insured isn't just off base, it's a flat out lie.
Aquino finishes up by writing that he isn't surprised though, since " Republican primary voters get their kicks by cheering executions, cheering uninsured people dying, and booing gay Iraq combat veterans." And, at last, we reach what I believe to be the foundation of Aquino's whole article. He hates Republicans. Period.
The sad truth is that extremity, on any view taken, creates a bias that can blind logic. So, Mr. Aquino, follow President Obama to wherever he aims to take you. But, by the looks of things currently, don't expect it to be a job interview.
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