It's time to grow some balls, Mr. President

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In her former life as a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton warned voters that Obama would let them down. She warned them that when the going got tough, he would fold up.

She said ... he lacked the strength, the toughness, the will to get the job done.

...

Democratic voters disagreed with her, and Obama went on to win both his party’s nomination and the presidency. But Clinton, now his secretary of state, left him with a warning: “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”

It is prose time for Obama.

And we are now going to see how he governs when it comes to meaningful health care reform. In his heart and in his head he knows ... that a public option — a government-run health care program like Medicare — has the best chance of competing with the insurance industry.

...

In order to compete with the huge health care industry, you have to be huge yourself or you get steamrollered. That’s why a public option would work and a system of smaller health care “co-ops” almost certainly would not.

In general, the health care industry wants health care reform and for a very simple reason: It would mean 47 million new customers, many of them young and healthy.

But the industry does not want a public option as a part of that reform, because a public option would be large enough to negotiate with private insurers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and doctors for lower costs.

“A public option would cut deeply into their current profits,” writes Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. “That’s why they’ve been willing to spend a fortune on lobbyists, threaten and intimidate legislators and ordinary Americans, and even rattle Obama’s cage to the point where the administration is about to give up on it.”

We don’t know for sure that Obama is about to give up on the public option.

...

How Obama acts right now on health care reform could tell us how he will act for the rest of his presidency.

Sometimes it is not enough to have just your heart and your head in the right place. You have to have your guts there, too.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26197.html

[zqt3344 21]

Right On! Wish he would grow a brain while he was at it!

In her former life as a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton warned voters that Obama would let them down. She warned them that when the going got tough, he would fold up.

She said ... he lacked the strength, the toughness, the will to get the job done.

...

Democratic voters disagreed with her, and Obama went on to win both his party’s nomination and the presidency. But Clinton, now his secretary of state, left him with a warning: “You campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose.”

It is prose time for Obama.

And we are now going to see how he governs when it comes to meaningful health care reform. In his heart and in his head he knows ... that a public option — a government-run health care program like Medicare — has the best chance of competing with the insurance industry.

...

In order to compete with the huge health care industry, you have to be huge yourself or you get steamrollered. That’s why a public option would work and a system of smaller health care “co-ops” almost certainly would not.

In general, the health care industry wants health care reform and for a very simple reason: It would mean 47 million new customers, many of them young and healthy.

But the industry does not want a public option as a part of that reform, because a public option would be large enough to negotiate with private insurers, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and doctors for lower costs.

“A public option would cut deeply into their current profits,” writes Robert Reich, former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. “That’s why they’ve been willing to spend a fortune on lobbyists, threaten and intimidate legislators and ordinary Americans, and even rattle Obama’s cage to the point where the administration is about to give up on it.”

We don’t know for sure that Obama is about to give up on the public option.

...

How Obama acts right now on health care reform could tell us how he will act for the rest of his presidency.

Sometimes it is not enough to have just your heart and your head in the right place. You have to have your guts there, too.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26197.html

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Why don't you have faith in our President?

[Nagishkaw 510]

0v0mit is a trickster .

[zqt3344 21]

Because he has shown me little or nothing to have faith in. He has spent us into major debt, get ready for inflation to rear it's ugly head now. The guy is a reverse racist - "he acted stupidly" statement on national tv healthcare speech in July, and he goes out of his way to take a one last question from Lynn Sweet of Chicago Sun Times(one of his reporter staging friends from home)and she asks a question that is totally unrelated to what we were all wanting to know about. Instead of healthcare he goes off on white policeman doing his job, and obviously Obama had not a clue what he was talking about and should have kept his mouth shut. If a white president had said that about a black police man he would be ripped to pieces as being racist, yet Obama does it and it is all ok, well it is not ok, everyone knows what he truly is now, and believe me everyone that is independent is sick and tired of his teleprompter readings about his imaginary change! He has done nothing to help the working middle class at all, not one thing! He is too worried about Acorn and Kevin Johnson and all his 50 million uninsured. That is why.

Why don't you have faith in our President?

[Otto 83]

Because he has shown me little or nothing to have faith in. He has spent us into major debt, get ready for inflation to rear it's ugly head now. The guy is a reverse racist - "he acted stupidly" statement on national tv healthcare speech in July, and he goes out of his way to take a one last question from Lynn Sweet of Chicago Sun Times(one of his reporter staging friends from home)and she asks a question that is totally unrelated to what we were all wanting to know about. Instead of healthcare he goes off on white policeman doing his job, and obviously Obama had not a clue what he was talking about and should have kept his mouth shut. If a white president had said that about a black police man he would be ripped to pieces as being racist, yet Obama does it and it is all ok, well it is not ok, everyone knows what he truly is now, and believe me everyone that is independent is sick and tired of his teleprompter readings about his imaginary change! He has done nothing to help the working middle class at all, not one thing! He is too worried about Acorn and Kevin Johnson and all his 50 million uninsured. That is why.

Who are you trying to convince? Yourself or everyone else...?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Who are you trying to convince? Yourself or everyone else...?

WORD

[mawilson 2,133]

Because he has shown me little or nothing to have faith in. He has spent us into major debt, get ready for inflation to rear it's ugly head now.

That was Bush and his Treasury Secretary.

[zqt3344 21]

Go ahead laugh, but you are clearly out of touch with what the rest of America is seeing and doing, just look at these town hall meetings. Open your eyes Otto!

Because he has shown me little or nothing to have faith in. He has spent us into major debt, get ready for inflation to rear it's ugly head now. The guy is a reverse racist - "he acted stupidly" statement on national tv healthcare speech in July, and he goes out of his way to take a one last question from Lynn Sweet of Chicago Sun Times(one of his reporter staging friends from home)and she asks a question that is totally unrelated to what we were all wanting to know about. Instead of healthcare he goes off on white policeman doing his job, and obviously Obama had not a clue what he was talking about and should have kept his mouth shut. If a white president had said that about a black police man he would be ripped to pieces as being racist, yet Obama does it and it is all ok, well it is not ok, everyone knows what he truly is now, and believe me everyone that is independent is sick and tired of his teleprompter readings about his imaginary change! He has done nothing to help the working middle class at all, not one thing! He is too worried about Acorn and Kevin Johnson and all his 50 million uninsured. That is why.

Who are you trying to convince? Yourself or everyone else...?

[Otto 83]

Go ahead laugh, but you are clearly out of touch with what the rest of America is seeing and doing, just look at these town hall meetings. Open your eyes Otto!

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Go ahead laugh, but you are clearly out of touch with what the rest of America is seeing and doing, just look at these town hall meetings. Open your eyes Otto!

OMG DOUBLE WORD

[HAL 9000 96]

All I can say is that I wouldn't be surprised to see a real public backlash against those playing cheap politics with people's health care. Sour grapes are only getting more sour.

[almaty 19]

that's right ..blame bush..i mean obama

[Otto 83]

All I can say is that I wouldn't be surprised to see a real public backlash against those playing cheap politics with people's health care. Sour grapes are only getting more sour.

Thinking the same/similar thoughts - wouldn't be surprised indeed...