Reply #21: thanks for informing me

[27inCali]

without snark..

I know some people are so fucking negative that sometimes we get reflexively annoyed with anyone who's sounding a bit down about things or confused about the facts of a situation.

we all want this though, bad, -that's what should bring us all together and get us past the semantical arguments and what not, I think if we can stick together and fight our hearts out, we can do it.

I believe that Obama's strategy so far has worked as good as any strategy possibly could. He deserves credit for that. One part of me wishes he'd get out there and bust out the rhetorical flame-thrower and kick some ass, but looking back on his track record, the patience game has worked for him every time so far (how soon we forget what an amazing feat it was for him to beat a juggernaut like Clinton in the primaries), so why wouldn't he -on this hugely important issue- use the most effective strategy in his bag of tricks. It exacerbates the shit out of the roots because we want to see an unabashed lefty warrior, but that might not always be the best approach to moving a lefty agenda forward -in military theory there is a thing called the indirect approach, which means being very flexible, patient and unpredictable and confusing the fuck out of your enemy until they finally make a mistake and leave an opening -I think that's what he's done.

If we do win, the biggest laugh I'll have is on Big Pharma, who it looks like, Obama has tricked into remaining complacent through most of the battle, while Congress slowly sets up to fuck them hard in this bill. Let's hope that's how it goes down.