>http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/24/health.care/index.html
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>President Obama said it's been 25 years coming. Try 60 years. Almost every president since Truman has tried to do this and every one of them failed. Like him or dislike him, no one can say any longer that Obama can't get things done. There was a hard core opposition allied against him, huge lobbying money tried to thwart it yet again, there were divisions in his own party, and the American public remains skeptical. He got it done anyway. IMO, and I say this in the same way I would speak of Ronald Reagan, he gets things done. He is a game changer.
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>Merry Christmas, everyone.

PS to my own message -- Here is a passage from Taylor Branch's magisterial biography of Martin Luther King, another inflammatory racial touchstone. The man can write and could do so in any genre. His MLK bio, the fourth and last volume of which is in the works, is a doorstop that reads like a novel. I admire this book more than about any I can think of.

http://books.google.com/books?id=U8ExdUHjzkMC&pg=PT160&lpg=PT160&dq=taylor+branch+like+all+prophets&source=bl&ots=6IMnTN-_y9&sig=60iGKYjNLIlxMAa17QqIp_rU3HE&hl=en&ei=H5kzS_mhDY78MfmXxP0I&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false