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Calling for Barack the Bold
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 06, 2009 11:23am |
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| Category | Perspective |
| Author | Roger Simon |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 6, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Obama in defeat. Head hung low. Chin on chest. Feet dragging along the ground.
He has lost the Olympics! (Which means half of Chicago is now cheering him.) He dared to leave the White House and go boldly where no president has gone before.
And he failed. Even some of his supporters say that going to Copenhagen to make a pitch to the International Olympic Committee was a mistake. Obama should never have risked it. To which I say: Baloney.
Barack Obama was not elected to be timid. His motto during the campaign was “change,” not “cringe.”
It is not all that important where the Olympics are held. (It is a TV show; who cares what country it is in?) What is important is the lesson Obama learns from his defeat.
So what should he do now? First, he should be bold on health care. Congress is not a place where boldness happens. Congress is a place where boldness goes to die.
Obama needs to be bold in backing the public option. The White House did not anticipate that the public would actually care about the public option. But it does. The public option is not the choice of “left-wing” America. (Left-wingers want a single-payer plan, like Canada’s.) The public option is the choice of mainstream America. |
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