Paul Krugman: Obama Has 'Largely Accepted Conservative View Of The World'
Sunday, November 21, 2010
"I can't imagine a man like Ronald Reagan squandering his political capital on something as ambitious and public-minded as health care reform."==========
Neither did Obama. It's not healthcare reform. Forcing taxpayers to pay for millions of insurance policies, which will insure a few million more Americans (not all, mind you), isn't getting affordable quality medical treatment for everyone. Insurance = medical care. And what Obama did doesn't even begin to address the problems Americans had and the reason they put Obama and Democrats into power to get for them. There are no cost controls and no universality.
We didn't get healthcare reform; what Obama did was get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.
I think Lawrence O'Donnell & Company explain it very well, but I can get others if these aren't to your liking:
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Did Obama, who ran a pitch-perfect campaign to victory in 2008, use his oratorical skill to shape the healthcare debate?
Did he use his unique ability to communicate, an ability that got more voters than ever before in the history of the nation to vote for him (a black man, in good old rac!st America, because they believed he could end corporations' grip on government & return the government to the People), to intervene & interrupt these kinds of disruptive tactics, and bring reason and order and humanity to the decision-making process?:
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He didn't because what teabaggers were doing at Town Halls was what he & the DLC-controlled Democratic Party wanted to have happen. To get the pro-insurance & pharmaceutical industries kind of healthcare legislation that was passed, and not the real healthcare reform that he & Democrats were put into power to achieve.
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to. And the only people Obama has ever battled are progressive and liberal Democrats.
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