crouch.stanley@gmail.com
Posted on 03/30/2010 4:42:10 PM PDT by presidio9
The Democrats had to do it alone. On a number of occasions, President Obama asked for reform ideas from the Republicans. But their idea of reform was no compromise, no fresh thoughts, no backing away from protecting the health care industry to which they had sold their souls during the presidency of George W. Bush.
As I have observed before, the Republicans "protected" the wallets of the American people by passing legislation that made it impossible for representatives of the federal government to barter down the price of prescription drugs. The drug industry was guaranteed about $500 billion in what was then the biggest windfall that went against purported Republican principles of letting the market reduce the problem of costs. Capitalism is, we can assume, whatever you say it is.
Last week in Iowa City, a cheerful Obama addressed the Americans who had first brought his candidacy for President into the full light of unprecedented possibility. In 2007, Obama promised an Iowa audience that a health care bill would be on the way as soon as he was elected. It would reform much of what was wrong in our system, which was badly tainted by money and lobbyists and indifferent greed. As the facts prove, that greed was turned most terrible by a sense of profit so narcissistic it made those infected blind to everyone else.
During his Iowa speech, Obama reasserted the power of the English language into the world of politics and proved once more how the stiff and hysterical rhetoric of his foes has whetted the appetites of Americans to those great heights to which a President can take this country when he chooses well articulated and lyrically delivered ideas.
What he said sounded fairly revolutionary because it took the long view that has so often been lacking in our politics. His tragic optimism did not deny the difficulty that comes with freedom and with democracy; he emphasized the high-mindedness necessary to carry our country through its demanding patches of backwardness, bigotry, greed, manipulation and corruption.
A tall order, but this is the country that produced many inventors capable of innovation so startling it was laughable at first. This is as true of Obama's apparently doomed health care reform as it was of the "Fosbury Flop," which revolutionized the art of high jumping in the 1968 Summer Olympics. The Flop was thought of as backward, crazy looking and incapable of being competitive. Now it has completely changed the sport.
That is essentially what we have just seen in Washington.
A tall, gangly man has led Washington in a revolution but never submitted to those who are more involved in the theater of politics than they are in what superior legislation can do for the country.
The President also pointed out that the health care reform bill was at least 100 years in the making and that what we now see written into the law of the land is connected to the high-mindedness of our best social changes.
That is how the democratic mess of our politics works - if you have the patience and the will to take all of the punches that must be taken in order to become a champion.
What this man has learned in such a short time, like those few years that it took Abraham Lincoln to truly understand what the Civil War was really about - "a new birth of freedom" as he described it. We may well be at the opening of a high-minded path to what some would call the promised land.
I am not one of them, but I understand the sentiment.
crouch.stanley@gmail.com
crouch.stanley@gmail.com
The stench of leftist lies made the above lines as far as I got in this propaganda diatribe.
What PLANET is this idiot living on?
Stanley Crouch and then he blow.
And he did so at the expense of his nation, who were crying out to him and begging him NOT TO RUIN the best health care in the world.
He chose HIMSELF over his NATION. AND IT WAS ENTIRELY POLITICAL.
The Left gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘projection’.
Spawn of Goebbel’s wrote this feces.
Made me mis-spell the word "unbelievable"
My new tagline!
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln
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Correct, but not the revolution this idiot thinks. 0bama has started revolution amongst the citizenry of this country to take our country back from the Marxists who sit in the White House and the congress right now. And we will, stating in November and delivering the final blow to 0bama in 2012.
What a huge, steaming pile. I just wrote him and specifically told him so.
He is black. odumbo is black, there is all that needs to be said in this mans world
He’s living on the planet BigLie, circling a star named Goebbels.
Gee, what an unbiased, non-partisan example of “journalism”.
Obama has indeed started a Revolution; his profound error is to believe that he will be the one leading it.
Is this crackpot permitted in public without supervision?
This I would expect in the Onion.
He should really hope that we never meet... and that list is growing.
LLS
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