Health Care Reform – Discouraging and Disapointing

It’s unfortunate that health care reform is seemingly either deeply wounded or it may even be dead altogether. There are outrageous commentators from the far right calling Obama a racist. I saw Glenn Beck on television say that he believed, “That Obama had a deep hatred for white people.” This is beyond bazaar. Not only is Obama half white, and most black people have accused him of not being black enough, nearly all his advisors are grey haired white men. I guess I’m not clear on how such a racist comment could just be overlooked by the public and the media. Other extremists have recently called Obama a Nazi. These people are obviously not familiar with the term fascism, which is the business take over of government. Socialism is a government taking over the economy. Obama is certainly no Nazi, but to accuse of such things is so over the top. I think most of us are just extremely disappointed. Republicans act like bullies, and Democrats act like sissies. There is something deeply wrong with both parties that are leaving the greatest needs for the common good unmet. When government was gridlocked before, Ronald Reagan went over the heads of Congress to become so immensely personally popular with people that they could not deny his agenda. Obama had that same opportunity, but seems to be frittering it away on using a leadership model that is unclear to me at this point. I think we all wish that he would be the change he promised. Few of us have given up on that happening, but this health care mess is certainly discouraging.