What's never gotten discussed, just glossed over, is the why of what Obama conceded, before negotiations ever began (ground that wasn't Obama's to concede), before a national public debate on healthcare could take place (& short-circuited such a debate from actually happening).
On the one hand, I'd think that Obama's fans would like to talk about it, because it lays waste to Teabaggers' claims that Obama's a socialist.
But OTOH, in doing so it also exposes Obama's real character & agenda, i.e., Obama's a DINO (he's a neoliberal, which is NOT to be confused with liberalism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism ) fronting the pro-corporatocracy that owns both the Democratic & RepublicanParties.
Because when we're talking about the miserable economy that Obama inherited, when we're talking about the financial decimation of the middle class & the poor in the US, when we're talking about the healthcare crisis in America & every other crisis that has this nation & the People circling the drain, had Obama been a REAL Democrat, had Obama been the masterful politician that CandidateObama had been, he would've recognized it as the same kind of *shock&awe* opportunity that Bush-Cheney-R0ve took advantage of to mug & rob the American people throughout the last decade. He would've used the IMMENSE political capital that voters handed him in 2008 to get a real stimulus bill, before TARP2 got handed out, (& with strings); real financial reform, instead of the DLC's & GOP's government privatization plans.
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