{"id":682199,"date":"2010-03-04T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/obama-and-mccain-get-personal-clash-over-healthcare-reform\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T11:00:06","slug":"obama-and-mccain-get-personal-clash-over-healthcare-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/682199","title":{"rendered":"Obama And McCain Get Personal, Clash Over Healthcare Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Obama%2Band%2BMcCain_1961_19641378_0_0_7018743_300.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Obama and McCain get personal, clash over healthcare reform\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Discussions between President Obama and Senator John McCain became heated during Thursday&#8217;s healthcare summit, culminating with the commander-in-chief reminding the Arizona Republican that he is no longer campaigning for the nation&#8217;s top leadership position. <\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the debate over healthcare policy reform, McCain slammed Democratic leaders for allowing special deals to be inserted into the Senate&#8217;s version of the bill, including special &quot;carve-outs&quot; that won over many moderate Democrats, convincing them to vote along party lines. <\/p>\n<p>The veteran senator also blasted Obama for his of lack of transparency in creating the piece of legislation. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;In fact, eight times you said that negotiations on healthcare reform would be conducted with the C-SPAN cameras,&quot; said McCain. &quot;I&#8217;m glad more than a year later that they are here.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Obama tried to interject more than once, but McCain went on for several more minutes. <\/p>\n<p>After he had finished, Obama responded, &quot;Let me just make this point, John, because we&#8217;re not campaigning anymore. The election&#8217;s over.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, I&#8217;m reminded of that every day,&quot; McCain replied, causing an eruption of laughter in the room.<br \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19641378-ADNFCR\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussions between President Obama and Senator John McCain became heated during Thursday&#8217;s healthcare summit, culminating with the commander-in-chief reminding the Arizona Republican that he is no longer campaigning for the nation&#8217;s top leadership position. In the middle of the debate over healthcare policy reform, McCain slammed Democratic leaders for allowing special deals to be inserted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rtd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}