>>>>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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>>>Now the only question is whether this will be another way to pump even more money into the insatiable pharma+insurance+others of the health industry, or will it really begin to build a health care system.
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>>>>Merry Christmas, everyone.
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>>>Make that "everyone interested" or summat. Like I said elsewhere, I prefer to be excused from that. I'm the completely wrong person to receive or give such wishes.
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>>Jesus, Dragan, accept a simple good wish. You are a curmudgeon beyond any need to be.
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>Look, I've had enough of that over the last two decades. First I was excluded from my nation, because nowadays even a part of the politicians there agree with the late patriarch that "one can not be a Serb if not of Orthodox faith". Now I'm included into some imaginary "everybody" on the special day of the year when Christianity boasts its ownership of everything around here. I just begged to be excluded and left alone. Good wishes in general, yes, thanks, same to you all, regardless. Christmas, however, is just not mine, never was, and I don't belong to, nor mesh well with the Christmas nor any other (overtly or covertly) religious thing. Didn't want to rain on your parade, but - hey, you had to start the sentence with that dead guy again? C'mon. Are you talking to him or me? You called us both, so I wouldn't know.
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>Curmudgeon? Deurinated. Just let it go.

Fair enough. Christmas is not my favorite day of the year, either, and I guess I was in a grumpy mood yesterday. Sorry.

Did I say a day? Six weeks of Christmas is more like it.