About half my friends are sure that Obama is in the pocket of big Pharma or big insurance. The other half think that he’s going to surprise us all, because “he’s playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.”
I agree with both. About half the time per each.
I remember sitting in a friend’s house in Cleveland (where I went to work on the campaign in October) and a few in the room were already coming down on him!
and he hadn’t even been elected yet! I said “Let’s give the guy an actual chance to fuck up. And he will fuck up.”
This may be that time.
Bill Moyers, on the Bill Maher show, suggested that Rahm Immanuel is the villain if the public option goes bye-bye. Immanuel wants to keep those insurance contribution$$ rolling in, and is willing to sell out the majority of Americans to do it.
I’ll be really pissed if that happens.