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2. there wasn't a workable majority in the Senate for a public option neither. Obama longtime thought there was (and rightly so), until Liebermann flip-flopped.

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I don't know where you got such an idea about lack of support for single payer, a public option, or Joe Lieberman.



Joe Lieberman says, "Obama never pressed me on public option"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/lieberman-obama-never-pre_n_399355.html

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/02/22/public-option-dramatically-more-popular-than-senate-bill-so-obama-pushes-senate-bill-without-public-option/



If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics.



Obama insisted that Joe Lieberman caucus with the Democrats & keep the chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairmanship over 81 percent of Democratic voters who wanted Lieberman stripped of the job if he joined with Republicans to block health care reform (compared to only 10 percent who thought he should retain it). http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/12/democrats-want-lieberman-stripped-of-chairmanship/31807/



Barack Obama, the first black man to convince more people than ever before in the history of this nation to put him in the White House, went MIA on populist issues as soon as he was elected. He is a corporate t00l.
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