Obama calls ineptitude on healthcare a “strategy”
OPS_admin | Dec 06, 2009 | Comments 0
Obama’s handling of health care so far has been a lot more dope than rope -a-dope.
For much of the healthcare debate as the town hall meetings got contentious and Republicans attacked, Obama laid on the ropes and covered up as he absorbed blows from Republicans, conservatives, and even Democrats unhappy with his lack of leadership and salesmanship in trying to get a health care reform bill done.
Obama sold out the public option every other day when the going got tough and the news media proclaimed it dead. It took the congress wresting control from Obama to save the public option and take control of the debate where Obama is now little more than a spectator.
Obama is now trying to claim this was all part of a grand “hands off” strategy that is now paying off, and theNew York Times, showing a gullibility that could make it a laughing stock, seems to have swallowed it whole.
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