Here's a devastating, even sarcastic
critique of Obamacare and President Obama by Margaret Carlson with Bloomberg and formerly Time magazine.
Two statements explain the huge
failure of Obamacare. One is by President Barack Obama, the
other is about him.
The first was made in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the end of
the 2008 primary campaign, when candidate Obama predicted that
generations would look back and see his nomination as “the
moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet
began to heal.”
Couple this with the assessment of his closest aide,
Valerie Jarrett, about his exceptionalism. “He knows exactly
how smart he is,” she told Obama biographer David Remnick.
“And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary,
uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives,
digest them and make sense out of them.”
Obama “has never really been challenged intellectually,”
she went on. “He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s
just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
Or what an ordinary president does, for that matter. A
chief executive less bored than Obama would have stayed on top
of his signature legislation. Those upset that he didn’t are
bedwetters, the White House says, nervous Nellies who can’t
comprehend the larger picture of health-care reform that will,
in due time, emerge. White House spokesman Jay Carney intones
the mantra that the president “is focused on delivering the
access to quality and affordable health insurance” and isn’t
concerned “about the politics of that.”
What's interesting is Carlson is not a conservative. I think she sees that arrogance may destroy a singular goal of the liberal establishment: government run, single payer health care system. For that she's not happy.
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