Six months ago I wrote a diary questioning Obama's leadership on the health care reform issue that he himself declared was one of his Adminstration's defining challenges. That diary received a lot of negative comments. Right now I'm thinking of egg and faces.
Nothing has changed. Obama still has not delivered because of his "community organizer" aproach to dealing with Republicans. The diary I wrote six months ago is still right on the money about Obama's falilure of leadership. Frankly, I don't think Obama has learned a damn thing. That he may not pass his dilluted, pathetic, fake health care reform bill simply reinforces the point I was making six months ago. (yes, I'm repeating "six months ago" ad nauseum to make a point...It was six fucking months ago.) My other diary is below the fold. It outlines just what Obama should still do, but also what he has demonstrated time and again he is unable or unwilling to do.
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