Top Democrats Distance Themselves from Michael Moore’s Sicko, for now

With the release of Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” a movie once again is adding sizzle to an issue that’s a high priority for liberal politicians — this time comprehensive health insurance for all. But unlike Al Gore’s film on global warming, which helped rally support on an equally controversial problem, “Sicko” is creating an awkward situation for the leading Democratic presidential candidates.Rejecting Moore’s prescription on healthcare could alienate liberal activists, who will play a big role in choosing the party’s next standard-bearer. However, his proposal — wiping out private health insurance and replacing it with a massive federal program — could be political poison with the larger electorate.

Michael Moore wants to do away with private buisnesses in the healthcare industry and replace them with big government. We all know that he took a trip to Cuba to show how Fidel’s healthcare system is better than America’s. Does anyone else find it disturbing that a government take over of a private industry is being suggested here? Some leading Democrat candidates do, however if their far left base gets vocal enough they will embrace it. Think about that, a GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER.

Instead of greeting the film with hosannas or challenging it head-on, however, the leading Democratic presidential candidates have sidestepped direct comment on Moore’s proposals.

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of South Carolina all have staked out positions sharply at odds with Moore’s approach. But none of them is eager to have that fact dragged into the spotlight.

If Moore’s fire-breathing proposal catches on among party activists, who tend to be suspicious of the private sector and supportive of direct government action, the candidates’ pragmatic, consensus-seeking ideas could look like weak-kneed temporizing — much the way their rejection of an immediate pullout from Iraq has drawn heated criticism from antiwar activists.

And the left tries to portray George W Bush as the one taking away personal freedoms with the patriot act and the FOREIGN suvelience program.

Advocacy groups are already planning to use the film to pressure the Democratic hopefuls.

“The candidates haven’t sensed the political fever in this country that fundamental change is called for in the healthcare system,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Assn. “What we are going to do is call on the candidates to reconsider their positions.”

Eventually the Democrats will succumb to intense pressure from the far left and embrace the idea of a government take over of health care. They will have to or face the wrath of the far left’s fury.

You may not like the way health care works in this country but to suggest a government take over is insane. When has the government ever been able to run anything smoothly? What’s next? What’s the next issue that you may not like? We can have the government take that over also. This is communism we are talking about here. These people  are dangerous. They need to be stopped.