Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz walked back his denunciation of Medicare for all Tuesday night, downgrading his insult from “un-American” to “unaffordable.”
“It’s not that it’s not American,” Schultz told CNN’s Poppy Harlow. “It’s unaffordable.”
“What I believe is that every American has the right to affordable health care as a statement,” he added.
Schultz giveth, Schultz taketh away. To replace Medicare for all, he labeled a new thing un-American during the interview: that Dreamers don’t have a pathway to citizenship.
Read more on Schultz’s consistent verbal tic here.
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Schultz walks back calling Medicare For All “un-American” pic.twitter.com/wBq4hMKh0v
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 30, 2019
Starbuck gets less impressive by the second.
Right, keep digging that hole. Maybe you should take up a rich man’s hobby, like yachting or polo, and save the Democratic party a lot of grief.
Making sure that all citizens in the most prosperous country in the world have access to affordable health-care may not be American, but it should be.
Schultz should also walk back his announcement about wanting to run for president.
He only misspoke because he hadn’t had his coffee yet.