I'm Dreaming Of A Combined Ticket

There must be an incredible amount of desperation on both sides of the Democratic campaign. Hillary makes the statement and Barak has yet to refute it as stupid. Their collective ego's must be so big that and they must be getting so desperate that they would consider anything and that's just what this idea falls into the classification of -- anything. A split ticket huh? How will this power sharing fiasco play out, Hillary on top, Barak on top, Hillary and Barak sideways with Bill and Michelle in the middle to mediate (interesting idea but probably not constitutionally possible, although then again it would be a Democratic administration and add Howard Dean to the mix and it may be able to be pulled off-back to the sentence and finish off the main thought) but that wouldn't work because Bill would be preoccupied with trying to get Michelle to give him a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (you fill this one in) whatever.

Picture this, Hillary and Barak as the President and Vice President pushing their highly publicized policies on the American public. Socialized medicine for all, that includes natural born, naturalized, legally here, illegals and any other group you can throw into the mix, this would be better than a David Lynch movie, only more disjointed and way more confusing. However, there are a few little details they have left out, on the campaign trail, when trying to shove this one up the collective a_ _ _ s of America. First, who is going to pay for this one. Not the rich because Hillary and Barak are both rich, really rich. Not the poor, they couldn't manage this one in their dreams. Well, I guess this leaves only one group, the middle class and that includes the following; whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, college students Hoping for change ( since they will get decent jobs when they graduate) and all of the others out there trying to make an honest living. As I have only a little experience with socialized medicine, let me relate what I have seen firsthand. First, young people go to the front of the line and in the world of socialized medicine the next logical move is to push those older to the back of the treatment line. For those of you still enamoured with this concept picture this, you in your mid-fifties (for you college students Hoping for Change, your parents are not far from this age-remember this point) have a curable illness but it requires immediate attention and you will fully recover. You call your HMO (that's what socialized medicine will be forget the PPO choose your own doctor concept---if your to young and don't remember ask your parents, HMO is synonymous with bad care and service) they ask for your social security number and the correct spelling of your last name along with the names of your children, wife, partner and last three deceased pets only to tell you it will be several weeks, maybe months before you can get in to see a Doctor or better yet a doctors assistant. This scenario is true, it happens in Canada every day, my wife's uncle was 72, healthy and had cancer, they put him off twelve weeks to start treatment because that is where he fell in the treatment line because of his age (he died). Don't think our system will be any better for a minute, the bureaucracy needed to run this one will be the largest in history. The Doctors that sign on will be bottom feeders whose only motivation will be trying to wring a fortune from collecting government checks, in this system the less a doctor treats, the more he makes, which is very similar to the old HMO system which is why HMO was always less than PPO and other programs that were at least favoring the patient . No amount of screaming, begging, pleading will get you there quicker.

Enough of the above nightmare, back to the combined ticket. First of all, Hillary is over sixty ( sixty one this year) and wants this job now, and I mean now. She ain't no VP and has never indicated any desire to be one. So I guess this means Barak will have to take second place on the ticket because there is no question who will win in a fight, Hillary at least stands and answers tough questions while Barak heads for the hills when the heat is barely on, so four or eight years of endless trips to obscure places and only the annual showing at the State of the Union address will be his fate. One good thing that would come from this VP job is that he would get to do an awful lot of research on his roots, because that is where Hillary would send him for the term/terms. Hey, the upside is the second language he will learn. There is no doubt that Barak is an incredibly bright man and as such sees this idea as really stupid. He knows that during the four or eight years of tax increases and endless investigations into his and her activities in office, let's call them shenanigans, the American public will (if they are elected) be ready for a big change, so big that Dick Cheney who will be around 75 or 76 at that time could run and win by a landslide. Even the most die hard Democratic pundits proliferating the airwaves are having a hard time with this one. Hillary honey, stop dreaming and get back to reality.