It took President Obama a long time in his State of the Union speech before getting around to talking about his health insurance reform initiatives. I can understand why he would not exactly want to highlight this at this point in time.
He did have some typical fighting words indicating that he wanted the reform measures [...]

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Hillary Clinton was right: Barack Obama was (is) just not experienced enough to be President of the United States. 
How else can you explain how badly he and his administration screwed up health care reform by not paying attention to what was going down in Massachusetts until it was too late to make a difference?
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No matter what happens in the special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant by the late Senator Edward Kennedy in Massachusetts Tuesday, the Obama administration has taken a major hit.
Of course, should Republican Scott Brown win, it could derail the Democratic Party’s (and President Obama’s) health reform legislation by denying the Democrats the [...]

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President Obama is in the middle of trying to find out how U.S. intelligence agencies so badly botched the handling of a Nigerian terrorist whose mission to blow up a U.S. airliner Christmas Day was derailed only because of luck and certainly not because of anything in “the system” that worked. It didn’t.
But maybe the [...]

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So, we end the year 2009 with the country still seemingly in a mess!
We are still at war in Afghanistan and bent on escalating it with the addition of a lot more troops. We have expanded our “secret” war in Pakistan while also now taking  more than a closer look at Yemen and even Somalia. [...]

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So much for true health care reform.
The Democrats in the U.S. Senate are congratulating one another for a job well done because they managed to pass something they can call health care reform. And, in many ways, it is certainly that.
But it is a far cry from what the President said he wanted when he [...]

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