Bob Herbert -- Bob Herbert! -- is concerned that Obama is blowing it by betting everything on health care reform,, and by taking such good care of Wall Street. Excerpt:
Voters are being told that the recession is over, but what they see in their daily lives are continuing job losses, an epidemic of foreclosures, families going bankrupt, homelessness rising and so on.The disenchantment among people who wholeheartedly supported Obama is palpable and growing. These are issues tailor-made for the Democrats. But the president and his party, rather than making the bread-and-butter issues of the American family their top domestic priority, have focused on reforming the health care system. As important as health care is (and our system is a disgrace), it was not the issue at the top of the agenda for most Americans when Barack Obama was elected president.
The widespread feeling among people I've talked to over the past few weeks is that the only ones benefiting from deficits being driven to the moon are the big banks and Wall Street. Folks are not opposed to a health care overhaul, but they're understandably wary. They fear it will drive the deficits higher and they're not sure that this big, complicated, very difficult to understand system is the best thing for their families. There is genuine worry about what might happen if the new system -- whatever its final contours -- turns out to be unaffordable.
I bet there are a lot of conservatives who can identify with almost everything the very liberal pundit Herbert has written here.
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How is access to health care not a bread-and-butter issue for the American family? Maybe Bob Herbert could ask that question of the people he's "been talking to over the last few weeks"? Unless, of course, they're the usual phantom allies recruited by pundits who want to promote an idea they had over breakfast that day.
hlvanburen,
I don't need anything up my sleeve to know that President Hope has his thumb up his butt.
PS: "Conservative" is a hat I sometimes wear, as is "progressive." "Republican" and "Club for Growth" are hats I've never worn -- not even once. Sorry "harsh" your "buzz" by making you think.
*I don't need anything up my sleeve to know that President Hope has his thumb up his butt.*
Having described your expertise in at least that area, I'll take it that you have no idea how to actually begin fixing the problem, and leave you to your admiration of it.
Obama and his communist brethren are honk-bent on driving America into the ground. With HUGE new spending programs like this so-called "health care makeover" to run up even bigger deficits than the gargantuan ones already happening, the U.S. demise is being accelerated.
Like I said, Heritage Hills, Obama needs to stop worrying about you calling him "communist," and start DOING the communist things Glenn Beck is charging he has failed to do, like reign in the capitalists on Wall Street. Oh, funny you refer to his communist "brethren" -- generally a religious term -- rather than the traditional "comrades."
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