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(32,324 posts)Mid August the summer of 2009.
Stewart: So a university student at U of Colorado Boulder, asks the President about public option, and the student seems to have the idea that public option is related to socialism or being a commie.
Does Obama take a moment to educate the young man. No instead, he apologizes for the existence of public option by saying (I am paraphrasing) 'Public option is but one tool in an entire tool box of options that Congress can employ. But since I am the President, and I am part of the Executive Branch of the US government, the separation of the three branches of government means I must bow out of the discussion until Congress has put its finishing touches on the piece of legislation that they re putting together.'
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Then we all come to find that while Obama is claiming his lack of using the bully pulpit for the public option, his own Chief of Staff, one Rahm Emanuel, was meeting with Liz Fowler to put together everything that the Big CEO types from, Big Pharma and Big Insurance wanted.
What is going on right now inside America's Body Politic is that people have had it. Over the last week, I have been tabling on an local issue, unrelated to party politics, and what I am hearing again and again is "Sorry but I quit voting."
Most people will just give a grin and giggle and say, "you know," when I ask why they won't vote in June.
But some people articulated that they see no real reason to vote in a rigged system. One man spent some ten minutes tracing his life as a voter, concluding with, "Well in 2012 they told me they were the lesser of Two Evils, and I kept hearing a voice in my head say, 'Lesser of two evils is still evil.'"
I concur with that man. If there is no one in Washington or in a leadership position in either party that cares about reforming politics, outside of maybe Bernie Sanders, or Liz Warren, with the rest of them being whores to Big Corporations, then why should I give a rat's ass in hell about the Democratic party?