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  • 'Fierce urgency' for jobs, not health care (Priorities, Priorities !)

    10/23/2009 8:13:01 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies · 595+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | 10/23/2009 | Byron York
    How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "the fierce urgency of now"? The president has used the quote, from Martin Luther King Jr., to call for quick action on the war in Iraq, on global warming, on homelessness, on education -- you name it. Now, Obama and his fellow Democrats are trying to convince the nation of the fiercely urgent need to enact national health care reform this very instant. "We have been waiting for health reform since the days of Teddy Roosevelt," Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in September. "We cannot wait any longer....