What makes politicians change their tune so quickly? Is it that O'Bama (happy belated St. Patty's Day) truly wants a single-payer health care program but feels he could never get it approved, so he pretends now that he doesn't want it? He supported it when it wouldn't lose him a re-election, but now that he has to create a plan that will pass both houses, he shies away from anything that doesn't fall in the middle of the road (even if it does fall a bit left of the center line)?
Or is it that he never truly supported single-payer, he just pretended to because it gained him popularity from the left. But now that he's in the Oval Office and has to cater to both sides, he no longer has any reason to pretend to back something that he never actually supported.
Another possibility is that he used to support single-payer, and has since sincerely changed his mind.
I feel like the current system doesn't allow politicians to ever be totally honest all of the time, even supposed goldenboys like Big Bang Boy oBama. I also feel like people are so caught up in Obamamania that many progressives would never dare critique, criticize, or disagree with him out of fear of being looked down on by other starry-eyed Obamaholicbots. I hope people don't lose their expectations for politicians to do the right thing all of the time. We should hold the current president to higher standards than we're accustomed to because he himself has promised to be a better person than previous presidents.
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