Continuing the theme of health care....

Throughout the campaign season former North Carolina Sen. Edwards has depicted himself as the candidate of the people. While his populist rhetoric which includes his now famous “two Americas’ description of an economically unequal America and his sympathy for the “underdog” who “toils” but receives nothing; may be drawing Newhampshireites into his camp, we have yet to see if he genuinely believes what he is saying. Is he prepared to challenge the “entrenched interests” that he says control the heart and soul of American politics today or is his rhetoric a part of a demagogic ploy to pull on Americans’ heart strings in order to reach the grandest hall of political power.

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Part two of three on the American Healthcare crisis:

Over the past week I had the opportunity to talk with Exeter resident, Caroline Amport about America’s healthcare crisis and the prospects of reform by the presidential candidates.

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Healthcare is a major Issue in the United States. Over 45 million Americans are uninsured, another 80-90 million Americans receive inadequate healthcare coverage and live precariously close to bankruptcy in the event of a health disaster. Strangely, as arguably the wealthiest nation on the face of the planet, the United States is also the only western democracy that does not provide all its citizens with affordable and fully accessible healthcare.

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This past week I had the chance to talk politics with every day, working class Americans in three separate states: New Hampshire, California and Michigan. My travels which began in Manchester, New Hampshire and took me to San Diego, California and finally to Detroit, Michigan revealed a serious disconnect between the real life issues affecting the lives of the working people of those cities and the political agendas being offered by the various presidential candidates.

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Iraq War, Accountability, Issues in Political Campaign Season
Larry Coskren, an Exeter native, shared his thoughts about the current campaign season.

Mike Lenz: What is the most important campaign issue for you?
Larry Coskren: The Iraq war

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CIA Revelations Should be Issue Among Media and Presidential Candidates

The recent barrage of declassified records by the CIA revealing the agency’s illicit activity in the 1970’s, has received ample coverage from a wide range of media outlets throughout the United States. Not surprisingly, major newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York Times, radio news sources like National Public Radio, and television news stations such as MSNBC and Fox News have taken a strictly newsman’s approach to the revelations citing the details of the records which included the agency’s program of domestic spying, infiltration and blackmailing of dissident groups-especially anti-war protesters and anti-colonial movements.

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With the presidential season heating up here are a few of my observations about the campaign thus far:

First, the media pundits, party elites and the intellectual community seem determined (one might even say desperate) to anoint a front-runner from each party at this early juncture of the campaign season. Clearly, these elites who are beholden to the interest of corporate America, are trying to avoid another Howard Dean from emerging out of the shadows.

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