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  • Bam is Dr. Desperate: Stakes presidency on health-care 'campaign'

    03/09/2010 3:20:30 AM PST · by Scanian · 19 replies · 208+ views
    NY Post ^ | March 9, 2010 | GEOFF EARLE
    WASHINGTON -- A "fired-up" President Obama yesterday took the fight of his political life out of the Capitol's intractable committee rooms and into the heartland -- staging a desperate campaign-like rally to try to win support for health-care reform. The president mustered all of the optimism and oratory of the 2008 election in a bid to rescue reform -- and protect his party's congressional majority and possibly even his chances for a second term. "Now since we took this issue on a year ago, there have been plenty of folks in Washington who've said that the politics is just too...