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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (550154)2/15/2010 10:05:31 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (3) of 1574312
 
>Obama has gotten HC reform further than any other president. However, those are meaningless words if it doesn't get approved into law. Your comment up above suggests you think his shortcomings have led to HCR getting put into a kind of limbo. If true, what do you think those shortcomings are and who do you think could have done a better job?

He started out by negotiating from the middle, and in a very murky way. He never really said what his goals were, but let the Dems in Congress put out a fairly middle-of-the-road plan to begin with, and then let it lurch to the right.

I think someone who actually believed in progressive principles rather than a mushy centrist like Obama would do better, but unfortunately there's no one that fit that bill that made a serious run for President (sorry, Kucinich, you don't count) in 2008.

-Z
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