Obama's healthcare horror

[keep_it_real]

I must confess my dismay bordering on horror at the amateurism of the White House apparatus for domestic policy.

Case in point: the administration's grotesque mishandling of healthcare reform, one of the most vital issues facing the nation.

But who would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing to propose but vague and slippery promises -- or that he would so easily cede the leadership clout of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic Congress?

It isn't conservative rumors or lies that are stopping healthcare legislation; it's the justifiable alarm of an electorate that has been cut out of the loop and is watching its representatives construct a tangled labyrinth for others but not for themselves.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

[sandnsea]

1. Camille Paglia

Not your friend.

[keep_it_real]

7. I have no idea who Camille Paglia Is But

I post some of the content of the article for DU's review of the ideas contained.

[sandnsea]

8. Healthcare horror? I wish you would get real n/t

[IndianaGreen]

9. Ahhh, you read the headline

Good for you!

[sandnsea]

11. Let me see

Fuck you.

[IndianaGreen]

2. K&R against the anti-intellectual brigade

who automatically show their ignorance by unrecommending something they haven't read, not even the opening paragraph in a long article:

Buyer's remorse? Not me. At the North American summit in Guadalajara this week, President Obama resumed the role he is best at -- representing the U.S. with dignity and authority abroad. This is why I, for one, voted for Obama and continue to support him. The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair. Obama has barely begun the crucial mission that he was elected to do.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

[Cha]

3. And you're so intellectual.

really.

[IndianaGreen]

5. I am not a knee jerker

if that is what you mean.

[ProSense]

4. "Ever since Hillary Clinton's megalomaniacal annihilation of our last best chance at reform in 1993"

Case in point: the administration's grotesque mishandling of healthcare reform, one of the most vital issues facing the nation. Ever since Hillary Clinton's megalomaniacal annihilation of our last best chance at reform in 1993 (all of which was suppressed by the mainstream media when she was running for president), Democrats have been longing for that happy day when this issue would once again be front and center.

You're cheering Camille Paglia?

[IndianaGreen]

6. The Clintons would be the first to admit they mishandled health care reform back then

but they learned their lesson.

[ProSense]

10. "but they learned their lesson." I can see why you have a problem with Obama. n/t

[rocktivity]

12. "By Camille Paglia..."

:boring:
rocktivity