re: #237 JohninLondon

from the Guardian News Paper, December 22nd 2008

“President-elect Barack Obama recently named Tom Daschle as his secretary of health and human services. The decision is sure to upset conservatives and some mainstream Americans since a few […] ideas, like the creation of both a government healthcare programme that would compete with privates ones and a federal health board to determine coverage, carry with them overtones of socialism, that politically dangerous word so often hurled at Obama during the campaign.”

I lean to the Democrat side, and am on the Liberal Left. But I want the Republican Party to survive as a Going Concern because 1 party rule is a bad thing. I have had a long term interest in US polictis and believe the extreme figures on both sides to be as bad as each other - but that presently it is the nuts in the GOP who are more to the fore than in the Democratic party.