Michael Moore interview (3 of 4) Mccain is run by lobbyists

And we have an e-mail question from Rebecca in Jackson, Tennessee: "Michael, I'm a fan. I'm glad you brought attention to so many important issues. But why didn't you support Hillary? If more media people like you had supported Hillary instead of being misogynistic "maybe we would have a Democratic president in 2008."

MICHAEL MOORE: I did support Hillary Clinton when she ran for Senate. And I've always been a big supporter of her. I wrote about her in my first book, a chapter called "My Forbidden Love for Hillary." I have always had a great deal of respect for her. I didn't support her in the primaries for one simple reason: she voted for the war. And I couldn't endorse her or support her as a result of that. But she's done so many great things, and continues to do great things for this country. And I think people respect that. You know, there's some issues that just become the issue for you. And of course, the war is a big defining issue for me.

KING: All right. We're going to have a couple of clips back to back here. It concerns the candidates and health care.
MOORE: You know, ask anybody on Social Security how well that system works. You know, the government -- the Republicans, they love to run against the government. The government is of the people, for the people and by the people. It's we the people. That's the government. So they're really against us when they say they're against the government.

In fact, they do a great job actually of running for office and then proving, once they're in charge, that the government doesn't work very well under their leadership...the government's job, in part, is to defend the country against attacks or imminent attacks. That wasn't the case here. There was no threat from Saddam Hussein. We all know that now. And this horrible war was started -- you know, McCain keeps talking about the surge, the surge, you know, the great surge. The surge, you know -- whatever the surge has done, it was only to clean up a mess that he and Bush started.

I mean, the surge is not going to bring back those 4,000-plus soldiers who have died, those American soldiers. It's not going to bring back the 100,000 dead Iraqis. The surge is not going to return the half a trillion dollars we've already spent on this war. The surge isn't going to do any of that. That's the real harm and the real trouble that's been caused here.

But I just want to answer your question on the health care thing, because I do want to say something critical about Barack Obama's plan. His plan still leaves the insurance companies at the table. They should not be anywhere. Private, profit making insurance companies should not be around a universal health care plan, because they are there to make a profit. We should never talk about a profit when we're talking about helping people who are sick.

So -- but the Congress has a great plan, the Democratic Congress. There's 91 co-sponsors for the John Conyers bill. With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic president, I think that bill will pass Congress. And I don't think the Democratic president, Barack Obama, is going to veto the Democratic Congressional bill. So that's my hope. We've got to get people elected to Congress.

KING: A call from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Michael and Larry. My question is this: how can John McCain declare war on lobbyists, when lobbyists run his campaign?
MOORE: Lobbyists do run his campaign. We're starting with Karl Rove's protege, Steve Schmidt, who runs the campaign. I just read in the paper here today that Sarah Palin's convention speech was written by a Bush speech writer. So you've got George Bush's speech writer -- George Bush's people running the convention, running the campaigns for these people. If anybody has any doubt that this isn't going to be just four more years of George W. Bush, just look at the people in charge of the campaign. And all lobbyists -- the best example of the lobbyists, actually, Larry, is the -- one of McCain's chief advisers is a lobbyist for the nation of Georgia. And they've paid this man hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for them. And John McCain, boy, he was right there on the first day there. You know, it seems to me now, as we look at the whole situation, it's a little more complicated than just saying, we're all Georgians.

And how much I'd like to know of what he did there when that took place between the Russians and the Georgians. It had to do with this chief adviser, who's on the payroll for the nation of Georgia. We don't need this anymore.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0809/05/lkl.01.html

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[hunjix]

Were you going to ask him out?

[fleshart]

Thank you MM! You speak the truth!!

[sdkkrew]

MM seems to have developed the ability to move, this is a shocker because most beached whales die on the sand. wishes wishes

[roodingle]

LOL michael moore is a douchebag

[hilarioluismm]

intriguing to the genuinely inspired. Check this movie T O T A L L Y  F R E E at Movie Watcher [.] US

[Shiznitification]

He is retarted.

[smettiuss]

@Cosmx:

After I read your comment, I knew you were old. You're 45, and old-fashioned. Wake up and look around: lazy racists like you are being replaced, one by one, by a new generation of non-racists. Fox "News" will be discarded in a matter of time.

Bush is a "real man"? I didn't know the definition of a "real man" constituted demolishing the Twin Towers. Google "worst president", and see what you find. You do know what Google is, right? Senile dumb-fuck. Obama will shit on your ignorant face.

[Cosmx]

Yea and Obama has a hundred times more lobbyists. I'll have a party when this socialists has a stroke and can only watch the Republicans run all the branches. I'd roll him in front of the TV and it will be 24/7 of fox news...haha living hell for this fat bastard. I miss Bush, at least hes a real man. Obama throws like a drunk bitch.

[caestvs]

you pink mother focker, go fock yourself. Ya spending money on garbage tha's really helping. Spending money to bankrupt us so we become dependent on a buncha Berkley/ Yale coffee drinking idiot idealism. Ya, go shit in yoyr f hat.

[funkyflights]

HAHAHAAH... Ok so let me get this straight.... using government money which is OUR TAX DOLLARS to help people in our own country is somehow the Devils work.... your a moron ... DO YOU NOT see how many Americans are being denied by there piece of shit insurance companies for profit and greed.... only one who is the devil is people like you

[caestvs]

If the Devil was in politics he would be a liberal. They preach compassion and promise everthing and in the end all they do is bankrupt city states and manage to stay in power. Lies, they want big government, us to depend on them. We don't need them we are Americans we can take care of ourselfs. Pink mother Fockers.