If you look at last year's presidential campaign, "you can't find a mention of public option."
"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."
During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events,” and opponents were “not disruptive — crowds booed lines they didn’t like, but that was about it."
Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops on the battlefield."
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama "has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done."
"The most recent Associated Press poll has Nader-Gonzalez at 6 percent, without any national coverage, against McCain and Obama."
"I didn't say" it doesn't really matter whether Gore or Bush is president.
"He won't even support his colleague's ... motion to censure the Bush administration for systemic repeated illegal wiretaps."
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