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Corporate lobbyists say the presidential candidates most favorable to them are Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Not surprisingly, the one they fear the most is John Edwards. Barak Obama is an unkown quantity to them, and Mike Huckabee is on a wait and see list. Of course, Huckabee, as this season's King of the Flip Flops, is more apt to swing the way of the corporatist. For a preacher man, he's such a whore.

Poor Glenn Beck had a bad hospital experience and claims the entire system is broken. All it takes to fix the problem, he says, is for the health care system to hire people who care about people then they will be the luckiest people in the world. Damn. We're channeling Babs Striesand. Where were we? Oh, yeah. It will take more than new hires to fix the U.S. health care system. How about taking the profit motive out of health care? How about reining in Big Pharma? How about letting doctors make decisions for their own patients? Oh, and Mr. Beck, if people at the hospital where you presented yourself were less than tolerant of you, do you think they may have recognized who you are. Maybe they were just giving you some of the love you pass out on your hate-filled program.

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