Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Sliming Graeme Frost

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Scott Hussey wrote:

> I've read a bit about this, but I didn't see any details on the response 
> by young Mr. Frost. Was it self-written and self-motivated or was he 
> just a "guest speaker" for the Democrats. Assuming the latter, where is 
> Krugman's attack on the Dems for putting a 12 year old in the middle of 
> partisan politics? There is no defense for the Republicans attacking the 
> kid or his family (of course there is rarely a defense for any 
> politician), but the Democrats really should be better behaved than to 
> put children and their families in the spotlight in political debates.

Have you ever heard of a "poster child?"  So you are literally saying that 
children and their families should not be "in the spotlight" in a debate 
about how children and families should be treated by health-care 
legislation?  Who should be in the spotlight then?  HMOs?  Physicians? 
Look, it's about the children, so the children are the focus.  If you're 
going to promote a system that helps children, you have to show what 
happens to children when that system fails.


> And for the record, I'm an opponent of socialized health care in general 
> but a proponent of socialized child health care. The son should not pay 
> for the sin of his father and so forth.

You could have done a better job.

Mike

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