US national policy issues looming after healthcare?

On 7 July 1944, Army Captain Ben L. Salomon, the battalion surgeon of 2nd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division aided the evacuation of wounded soldiers.

After defending his unarmed patients from four Japanese soldiers, he manned a machine gun post and effectively repelled numerous enemy forces to enable the evacuation of wounded personnel.

When his body was recovered after the battle, 98 dead Japanese soldiers were found in front of his position. For gallantry in battle, Captain Ben L. Salomon was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in May 2002.[23] Salomon was the third Jewish service member to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II.

On 7 July, Private Thomas A. Baker and his comrades from the 1st Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, came under attack by a large Japanese force.

Although seriously wounded early in the attack, he refused to be evacuated and continued to fight in the close-range battle until running out of ammunition.

When a comrade was wounded while trying to carry him to safety, Baker insisted that he be left behind. At his request, his comrades left him propped against a tree and gave him a pistol, which had eight bullets remaining.

When American forces retook the position, they found the pistol, now empty, and eight dead Japanese soldiers around Baker's body.

Baker was posthumously promoted to sergeant and, on 9 May 1945, awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions throughout the battle for Saipan.[21] He was buried at Gerald B. H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville, New York.[22]

You are being a semantic twit, Ken. The discussion was about giving a speech to a private audience for which no video or transcripts are released, versus a 'public' speech where video or transcripts are available to the public.

Were you aware that a word can have a different meaning in different contexts?

Ken M:
Instead of erecting statues to traitors, how about this guy:

Norton:
... yes by choosing to "secede" ... that does make them "traitors"

But when asked whether Confederate statues should remain as a historical symbol or be removed because they're offensive to some people, 62 percent say they should remain; just 27 percent said they should go.

African-Americans are divided on the question — but a plurality agree they should stay, 44 percent to 40 percent. Two-thirds of whites and Latinos believe the statues should remain as well.

One of the most dramatic monuments to the Confederacy is called Stone Mountain, in northern Georgia. It's sort of a Confederate Mount Rushmore, with Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis carved into a mountainside.

Andrew Young, a former mayor of Atlanta and lifelong African-American civil rights activist, says the memorial should stay. Young served as a congressman from Georgia and ambassador to the United Nations. He was with Martin Luther King Jr. the day he was assassinated.

"That is a tremendous carving. And I don't want to see that destroyed. I don't care who it is," he says.

Regarding those that couldn't bring their sacred consciences to vote for an imperfect candidate, "how's it going, eh" as we canucks put it when we choose to mock.

Thirty-nine percent of voters nationwide said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic ticket if Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders were on it, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.

Among undecided voters, a whopping 50 percent said they would be more likely to support the Democrats if it’s a Clinton-Sanders ticket.

a diabolical and mentally disturbed bully,

Ken M, I am confused about people who want to bring down statues of all traitors.

If a public speech can only mean 'speaking to a live audience' then what's a private speech?

The leadership made it clear they would not compromise to bring Sanders supporters into the fold.

August, you are misusing the term "public speaker", to mean that a person gives a speech to the public.

It does not.

It means that the person is giving a speech to a live audience, the setting is not the issue.

OK, so assume that the Clinton/Sanders ticket would have won

so what?

the House would still be firmly in the Republicans hands

very very doubtful the Dems would have won a majority in the Senate now 52-48

the Dems would not be able to get any legislation passed and with the Repubs in control of the Senate would not be able to confirm SC appointments

a Mexican standoff, just like the last 6 years of the Obama Administration