There’s a theme to day three of the Republican National Convention: We Can Change It. In Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s speech at the RNC tonight, he opened with concerns of Obamacare stating that it goes against the plans of our American forefathers.“I think if James Madison himself, the father of Constitution, he were here today, he would agree, the whole damn [Obamacare] is still unconstitutional,” Paul said, followed by applause from the crowd. “The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers. So how do we fix this travesty of justice? There is only one option left, we have to have a new president.”Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agrees with senator Paul, and has been working with Mitt Romney to provide a solution to reform Medicare, ending Obamacare that they claim will work on a market-based system that will control the out-of-control spending.
Ryan, arguably the most anticipated speaker of the night said that Obama’s pushed health care law has “no place in a free society . . . The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal ‘Obamacare.’ ”
Ryan’s presence at the Tampa Bay Times Forum cannot go unnoticed. The applause breaks in-between his speech fill the room and the hallways in which attendees walk through during other speeches seem to be empty as all of the seats appear taken. “The greatest threat to medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it,” Ryan said.
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