Here’s an interesting video of what happens when Barack Obama’s teleprompter breaks.

Transcript:

Everybody knows that it makes no sense, and, you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ‘em treatment early, and they got some treatment, and, uh… a Budweiser Breathalyzer… or, uh, an inhalator — not a Budweiser Breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours, so.

And that’s just the first half.

Yes, I know it’s an old video. It’s still worth watching. It is a trainwreck. Two things in that first half alone were notable to me though. The obvious is the Budweiser statement, just by the sheer ridiculousness of it. The less obvious is the asthma statement. Let’s look a bit closer.

you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ‘em treatment early, and they got some treatment…

Is it just me, or is that the beginnings of a scary statement? It seems like he’s saying putting a kid with a “treatable” illness like asthma in a hospital bed shouldn’t happen because it “costs” too much. You know, because it’s “treatable”. If only those stupid parents gave those kids their inhalators or a Budweiser or whatever, they wouldn’t have to take up valuable space in a hospital. Because, you know, asthma’s never life threatening or anything. And if that’s such a bad thing, then what would Obama propose to prevent that? Turn them away? Bill the families with “treatable” illnesses more? What?

Just let that sink in.

As I said, a very scary statement.

Hat Tip: My colleague Kim at Wizbang

One of the truly frightening things about this upcoming election is that if the worst happens, then Democrats will have complete control over Washington — and our lives. We’ll be thrown headfirst into a complete nanny state whether we like it or not, with high taxes, skyrocketing gas prices, and banned handguns, just to name a few. We’ll creep towards socialism a little at a time, and healthcare will be one of the first things to go. And it won’t matter how angry the American people are. Democrats will want to infuse government into our lives in any way possible.

So what do we have to look forward to? Stuff like this:

A pregnant woman was forced to give birth in a hospital corridor after being turned away from two other hospitals when she went into labour.

Humiliated new mother Emma Johnson gave birth in a hallway at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, West Sussex.

She plans to make an official complaint to NHS bosses after staff at two hospitals refused to admit her because there were no beds available.

Miss Johnson and boyfriend Edward Prior, 23, called at their local hospital - the Royal Sussex in Brighton - after she went into labour at 1.15am on Tuesday, but the couple were told there were no beds.

Staff there also advised them that there were no free beds at Worthing Hospital, meaning Miss Johnson had to endure an unconventional and uncomfortable birth on the floor of a corridor at the Princess Royal - 20 miles away from the couple’s Brighton home.

Miss Johnson said today : ‘I feel really cross about it.

‘We could have gone to the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton in about 10 minutes and then we wouldn’t have had all this.

‘The staff were nice once we arrived but this shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

‘It was extra stress for me at an already difficult time.’

Mr Prior, who works at an Asda supermarket, added: ‘The midwives all rushed to help but there was no time to do anything before the baby arrived.

‘We only just got there in the nick of time. A few minutes more and it would have been in the car park.

‘It took 40 minutes to get there from Brighton and at one point I thought she was going to have the baby in the car.’

A spokesman for Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust said: ‘We do everything we can to ensure women are able to give birth in a hospital of their choice.

‘We are sorry that this was clearly not Miss Johnson’s experience.

‘Occasionally if a site is very busy we have to ask mums to travel but we do this as infrequently as possible because we know it is not what mums want.’

The kicker is that, with socialized healthcare, it doesn’t matter what you want. What matters is how the government wants it, and that’s how it will be. With no free market, there’s no incentive for the government to fix the system, either. You just have to suffer.

Sadly, Britons and Canadians have no one but themselves to blame for their horrific healthcare, and if we vote people into office that implement socialized healthcare here as well like they did, then neither will we. We decide who makes the laws in this country.

Democrats like to crow about “free healthcare!” because they know that a lot of Americans will take nothing more than a superficial look at where they stand on the issues, and “free healthcare!” sounds good. A lot of Americans have no idea what they’re getting into, and are completely ignorant of the fact that socialized medicine does not work, has never worked, and will only mean taxes will skyrocket and quality of healthcare will plummet. Democrats won’t be honest and upfront about that part, because they know that if they were, no one would vote for them. So instead, they run on shallow platforms of “HOPE!” and “CHANGE!”, and pray that no one digs any deeper.

John McCain is not the perfect candidate. But he gives us a better chance of saving this country from socialist moonbattery than Barack Obama, who will happily inflict his Marxist ideals onto us. Socialized healthcare is just one facet, and that is scary enough in and of itself.

Hat Tip: Moonbattery

Poor, poor Silky Pony. He seems to suffer from the same affliction as Barack Obama: blurting out anything that jumps into his little old mind.

See, Silky not only wants to socialize all medicine, but he would make check-ups mandatory:

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat “the first trace of problem.” Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.

Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.

“The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death,” he said.

What I want to know is, who on Earth wants the government taking care of them from the cradle to the grave? I mean, even in the best possible scenarios, the government will never do everything right. My perfect government is the one that leaves me the hell alone.

And there are so many things about this plan that are just… scary. I mean, you’re required to have mental health check-ups as well? And if your mental health check-up comes back with negative results, then what? Are you forced into psychiatric hospitals? It reminds me a lot of V for Vendetta, with people who are unwanted and don’t think the right way being forced into “re-education camps” or killed.

And what if you don’t go to the doctor? Are you arrested? Do government officials come bang on your door and force you to go? And if you don’t go to the doctor, and it turns out you have cancer, are you refused treatment? And what will they be enforcing next “for our own good”?

As Van Helsing from Moonbattery notes,

From mandatory doctor visits, it will be a short hop to mandatory morning calisthenics, with a two-way telescreen to make sure you’re taking part, just like in the liberal how-to manual 1984.

Behaviors deemed “risky” can become outlawed — for your own good, of course. No smoking, no drinking, no fatty foods… and anything else they declare “bad for you”.

And over at Hot Air, a reader left a chilling comment:

Ironically (or maybe not), if this gets put through, the forced abortions are coming if you have a disabled unborn child, cause it’ll be too expensive for the “free medicine” system to care for.

Not to mention those folks who have cancer or another life-threatening disease that will cause tremendous expenses for the system. We’ll start seeing euthanasia, infanticide, and abortion forced by the government.

This isn’t about healthcare; it’s about the government asserting total control over our lives. And they call us Nazis?

So much for “land of the free”, huh?

A lot of people will read this and say, “Well gee Cassy, aren’t you overreacting? The government will never go so far as to engage in infanticide and euthanasia, or to force us to work out every morning, or any of those other awful things you said! He’ll never take it that far!”

Perhaps, but once upon a time it would have been considered outrageous to be forced to see a doctor, a dentist, and a mental health professional by our government. How far down this slope will we slide if this system is put into place? When will Silky say “Stop!”? And why should we be at the mercy of the government to begin with?

Again, images of V for Vendetta are just rolling through my mind, with government enforced curfews; certain foods and drinks banned until it’s hard to even get food (although never in short supply for the “right” people); only government-approved music, books, and TV shows allowed; and “undesirables” sent to re-education camps only to be murdered, and all of it in the name of our own well-being.

In the same article, Edwards piles on the hypocrisy, liberals’ favorite smear for us damn dirty Republicans:

Edwards, who has been criticized by some for calling on Americans to be willing to give up their SUVs while driving one, acknowledged Sunday that he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacificia, which he said he has had for years.

“I think all of us have to move, have to make progress,” he said. “I’m not holyier-than-thou about this. … I’m like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction.”

He wants to lead the nation in the right direction, see? And us little people are too gosh-darn stupid to know what’s good for us. Therefore, people like John Edwards and the Goracle must tell us exactly what is good for us, and what to do, and how to do it, and when to do it, and nevermind how we feel about it.

Rob from Say Anything leaves us with a good quote, from the beloved author C.S. Lewis, that I’ll end with as well:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Cross-posted at Wizbang