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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: manalagi who wrote (66863)	12/16/2009 10:53:30 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Obama's the ultimate pragmatist... dailykos.com That is how I see him. He isn't an enemy. This isn't personal for him, it's political. He's extremely intelligent, but I'm not sure if he really understands just how personal this issue is for many of the people who support him. He strikes me as someone who is very cerebral, not terribly emotional, and he may not "get" just how pissed off people are over this bill. He thinks he can sell this [health care] bill to us. Maybe he even truly believes that he can fix things at a future date. I don't know, but right now, I think he's just hoping most Americans won't pay attention to the details of the bill. That we will simply accept this as a stepping-stone and move on. I think he and other Democrats will be surprised to discover just how many of us won't move on. Not because we're stubborn. Not because we're spiteful. Not because we are "purity trolls". We won't move on because we can't afford to. For many of us HCR is a matter or life or death - literally. This issue won't go away. No matter how much certain people in the Democratic party wish it would. by AuroraDawn on Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 06:06:48 AM PST