Paul McCartney plays Miami (praises health care)

Miami Herald ^ | Ben Crandell

[ConservativeStatement]

An America deeply divided by helter skelter politics and war, the void littered with protest signs, bricks and racial epithets, is nothing new to Paul McCartney. The Beatles provided a soundtrack for a similar era 40 years ago.

As then, the man who sang that "Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friends" in "We Can Work It Out," is hopeful.

"It's a tough time, of course," McCartney said by phone last week as he motored through Sussex in the south of England. "But things get better.

[nagdt]

Paul was always my favorite Beatle...still is. He made a comment - let’s move along. It wasn’t like he was being hateful. If anyone knows how important good health care is, it is Paul...as he watched his wife die a very slow death thanks to cancer. He just doesn’t understand (like most British folks) why we are so upset about the takeover of healthcare and loss of liberty and the trashing of our constitution. It’s okay.. I still like his music.

“When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me..singing words of wisdom, let it be...”

[presently no screen name]

Imagine there’s no Paul....

[SMARTY]

Did anyone ask him if HE stands in line with his hand out when he needs medical attention?

[GOPsterinMA]

Exactly! That would be a sight!

[screaminsunshine]

What about “Tax Man”.

[Doohickey]

An honest headline would have read: “Celeb Who Can Pay Cash Praises Healthcare”

[driftless2]

When that song came out in the sixties, Harrison was attacked by many libs because he didn’t meekly submit to Big Government taking practically everything he made.

[driftless2]

"private clinics"

Harrison also made a trip to the Mayo Clinic.

[Rocko]

Paul's been isolated in the celebrity bubble since his early twenties. He really needs to stick with music and leave his naive political views to himself; he has no clue.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Sussex is in the south of England? Who knew? /sarc

[QQQQ]

The fact is that most british stars living in US to avoid paying high taxes in uk.

[GOPsterinMA]

Did he? No surprise.

[4yearlurker]

Sounds like Sir Paul should spend a few days with Ted Nugent.

[LibLieSlayer]

Paul is an arse... he pays cash for medical services in England... he opted out of their socialist medicare... he and the queen go to private hospitals and private specialists that only the elite are allowed to visit. **** mccartney.

LLS

[wardaddy]

hey now

ludes and sidney are as different as chocolate and arsenic

[dfwgator]

I wonder if Paul ever managed to ask John Lennon the real reason he left England for America. It was to get out of paying the high British taxes to support Socialized Medicine.

[Slump Tester]

Did he have his "No Land Mines" teeshirt on?

What an a-hole!

[Paperdoll]

Who gives a r—’s a— what Paul Mc arney says?

[murron]

I remember when his first wife, Linda, was dying of breast cancer, they came to California to get her treatment even though they were living in England.

[rbosque]

Yumm!