Then how do we know what “Public Option” health insurance is? The President needs to step out of the cocoon if he really feels this is something he can pass off on lefties expecting too much. The Public Option was the compromise away from what many lefties initially wanted: single payer health care.
Krugman discusses the differences between candidates Obama and Clinton. But that says more about the complainers than it does about Obama himself. If you actually paid attention to the substance of what he was saying during the primary, you realized that (a) There wasn’t a lot of difference among the major Democratic contenders (b) To [...]
Remember this debate? Then Sen. Hillary Clinton was all: Meet me in Ohio! and then Sen. Barack Obama was all: fine then. Monday November 23, 2009 Dave Winer. I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as [...]