Comments on: I Vote for Pam

By: Pam Cash-Roper

Pam Cash-Roper — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:16:29 +0000

Tina...where is it written or spoken by me that I blame Republicans for my health care issues...I take full responsiblity for my healthe issues...where I draw the line is with the inability to obtain and maintain affordable, portable health care for all individuals...THe Republician party has gone so far to the right over the last years I can no longer consider myself a Republican, nor can I back McCain and his voting for Bush 90% 0f the time...It would truly mean 4 more years of the same.

By: tina

tina — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:45:40 +0000

Pam is blaming her health insurance problems on the Republicans??? Has she stepped on a scale or looked in a mirror? The biggest problem, no pun intended, is the fact that Americans don't know when to put the fork down and get up and exercise. Her health problems and her husbands are weight related. The American Health Care System is bogged down in taking care of people who think that eating until they are sick is ok, until the bills come due.
I'm sorry that they got sick, but Pam and her husband need to take some responsibility in their situation. Americans need to stop blaming, get off of their fat a**es and get healthy!!!

By: dcreaderr

dcreaderr — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:11:16 +0000

Please. Spare me the pity party. The self serving bi*tch voted for Republicans for over 20 years and, after Watergate, Iran-Contra, Aids, read my lips no more taxes, Kuwait/Iraq round 1, Iraq round 2, the Patriot Act, and on and on and on. Yet she still voted for them. She is exactly what is and will always remain wrong with this country and half of its voters. We are self-serving, short-sighted assh*les. And we are suffering for it.

I empathize with the fact that she suffered because of shitty health insurance issues and a poor economy but its her own fking fault for not working towards the greater good over the last 20 years. Now she gets to reap what she sowed. America is in the shits because leaders like GWB have screwed us over and over and no one stands up to them. Good riddance. Enjoy your humble pie.

By: eltoroverde

eltoroverde — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:29:59 +0000

Pam's story may be compelling to a certain degree but the retelling of it, and others like it, is not going to help Obama win the presidency. If the Democrats are going to run on an "anything but McBush" message, it will fall flat with undecided voters (the key to winning this election). As Pam's example illustrates, undecided voters are not the ones who are hurting right now, because anybody hurting right now is already voting for Obama, most likely. The real question is, do the "woe-is-me, my life was good until Bush and the Republican's ruined it" narratives like Pam's pull in undecided voters? I'm not so sure they do and I worry that the Democrats and Obama are at risk of failing to recognize this critical factor.

By: LooLoo

LooLoo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:49:23 +0000

I'm sorry, but anybody who voted for Bush in 2000 &/or 2004 IS PART OF THE PROBLEM. They helped hoist that sorry ass fuhrer on all of us !!!

By: Mike DeBonis

Mike DeBonis — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:45:06 +0000

Yeah, Barney Smith totally pwned Pam.

By: David

David — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:18:05 +0000

Pam was Ok, but she was no match for Barney Smith, the guy who said this:

"We need a president who puts Barney Smith before Smith Barney."

Zoom zoom zoom!

http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080829/NEWS03/808290341/1044/LOCAL08

By: Ruth Samuelson

Ruth Samuelson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:57:42 +0000

Yeah, I hope we haven't heard the last of her. I forgot to mention, I actually heard her on the radio last night, and then just dug up this clip today. She made quite an impression.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:28:46 +0000

I loved Pam! I hope we get to see her on some campaign commercials this fall, sharing her story and displaying some attitude.