Is Obama Punking Us?
Unfortunately, sometimes if feels that way. The honeymoon is over and now we need you to do the damn thing. I have the patients of Job, but please don’t punk out on healthcare. Below is part of a great article from our friend Frank Rich of the NY Times.
Here are two not very daring predictions: Obama will get some kind of health care reform done come fall. His poll numbers will not crater any time soon.
Yet there is real reason for longer-term worry in the form of a persistent, anecdotal drift toward disillusionment among some of the president’s supporters. And not merely those on the left. This concern was perhaps best articulated by an Obama voter, a real estate agent in Virginia, featured on the front page of The Washington Post last week. “Nothing’s changed for the common guy,” she said. “I feel like I’ve been punked.” She cited in particular the billions of dollars in bailouts given to banks that still “act like they’re broke.”
Read the entire article here.
As always, be well
CF
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