Obama administration made it possible! Support universal Health care for all americans! (843)

Because,it mainly takes.
Start paying in 2010,no Benefits until 2014.

------------------^
Alexey, a long time rumor in Washington...is the every President since Washington has made a diary that the following office holder gets to read and review. If so during the transtition....President Obama has got the insight of every President our country has place into office. Being a secret and private diary, they cannot be used in say.....investigation of the previous administration....a breach of trust and honor. This is just one American speaking to another.

The 3 month transtition period had to give him more detailed information on how the world worked...than all the time he was in Harvard. He realized that some of his campaign advocated positions and policies would not work. But also had some so committed to that he had to press them in the first year.

For example, it is the difference between flying a flight simulator of a high performance fighter jet and sitting in its cockpit at 50K FT. In one, your tush can have as many 'do overs' as you want till you get it right. The other, your tush 'gets burned' if you don't get it right the first time. Now in office 'getting it right' likely is the mantra of the White house staff.
They strongly obligated to President Obama to get it right..But..

We like to think that in this day of internet and globalizaton, that all the facts can be determined and known on the global issues. That is not the case. Countries hold secrets. Political movements at the grass roots levels develop over night. Groups like alQeada exist because they are in the shadows of people and gov't. So 'getting it right' is tough.

JMO ...He found out it was lot more complex than first thought.
A lot more challenging than when the idea of running for the Presidency first hit. His liberal views on life, did not give ...a solid moral position to making life taking decisions. For rest assured, he does make life taking decisions.

So this first year...he had tried to please everyone...and waffled on campaign promises. A good observations on your part. My first coorespondance with him....was on the 'test of fire' that his administration was going to endure. That happens when hard reality hits your preconceptions......and those preconceptions begin to melt and fracture.

His administration is still is going thru that 'test of fire'. It has not learned to side step some battles and to fight the important ones that can be won. Have to be won. You watched his...West Point Address.....and Nobel Peace Prize Address...few campaign supporters would have thought these words could come from him. But there they are.

You also see him going to Coopenhaggen..with less than a solid agenda on Climate Control and now backing a Health Care plan that was not campaigned on. Even McCain would have made consessions on
Health Care and Climate Control. It is the compromising thing to do in Washington....as Reid says.

He still has great promise to be a great American President. Only a year of his first term is gone. He now has learned to grapple with some of the world's realities. But he has to make decisions faster.....get to the heart of the issue sooner and speak the truth on it.

I also advised him to do that.

------------------^
Alexey, a long time rumor in Washington...is the every President since Washington has made a diary that the following office holder gets to read and review. If so during the transtition....President Obama has got the insight of every President our country has place into office. Being a secret and private diary, they cannot be used in say.....investigation of the previous administration....a breach of trust and honor. This is just one American speaking to another.

The 3 month transtition period had to give him more detailed information on how the world worked...than all the time he was in Harvard. He realized that some of his campaign advocated positions and policies would not work. But also had some so committed to that he had to press them in the first year.

For example, it is the difference between flying a flight simulator of a high performance fighter jet and sitting in its cockpit at 50K FT. In one, your tush can have as many 'do overs' as you want till you get it right. The other, your tush 'gets burned' if you don't get it right the first time. Now in office 'getting it right' likely is the mantra of the White house staff.
They strongly obligated to President Obama to get it right..But..

We like to think that in this day of internet and globalizaton, that all the facts can be determined and known on the global issues. That is not the case. Countries hold secrets. Political movements at the grass roots levels develop over night. Groups like alQeada exist because they are in the shadows of people and gov't. So 'getting it right' is tough.

JMO ...He found out it was lot more complex than first thought.
A lot more challenging than when the idea of running for the Presidency first hit. His liberal views on life, did not give ...a solid moral position to making life taking decisions. For rest assured, he does make life taking decisions.

So this first year...he had tried to please everyone...and waffled on campaign promises. A good observations on your part. My first coorespondance with him....was on the 'test of fire' that his administration was going to endure. That happens when hard reality hits your preconceptions......and those preconceptions begin to melt and fracture.

His administration is still is going thru that 'test of fire'. It has not learned to side step some battles and to fight the important ones that can be won. Have to be won. You watched his...West Point Address.....and Nobel Peace Prize Address...few campaign supporters would have thought these words could come from him. But there they are.

You also see him going to Coopenhaggen..with less than a solid agenda on Climate Control and now backing a Health Care plan that was not campaigned on. Even McCain would have made consessions on
Health Care and Climate Control. It is the compromising thing to do in Washington....as Reid says.

He still has great promise to be a great American President. Only a year of his first term is gone. He now has learned to grapple with some of the world's realities. But he has to make decisions faster.....get to the heart of the issue sooner and speak the truth on it.

I also advised him to do that.

Four hundred years ago, Miguel Cervantes described an archetypal delirious fruitcake who wanted to change the world by turning the clock back to the idealized Utopian times that never really existed. Imagine what Cervantes would write today about the futility of his satirical effort, if he were to learn that four centuries later, a whole movement would arise that emulated his loony character and elected one of their kind as the leader of the free world.

Fellows, fellows, fellows...some of us have more to say than a
emoticon. Sometimes not more important, I do agree. But no one forces you to read a long post. Is your choice, just schrol thru it.

Consider this, how much of a thread do you have if they are 100%
emoticon and pics? Threads need some verbage. Like a good steak diner, you need some salad and potato to go with it. Yes?

Agreed Dude and self, don't always serve up the best verbage. But if was not of some interest to some taste.......take a look at the hits to the Obama threads. Some are biting into the threads.

Good threads have counter points. Opposing positions that debate the issues. A reader can chew some of right and some of left....munch on the middle. Find out where thier personal position is.

So the way I see it....Dude and self are doing a CS service to the consuming and tasteful readers as yourselves. A free political commentary service, mind you. Not one that is forced on any.

Consider how many CSers might have saved their job.....by reading a Obama thread the night before going to work....were a hostile employer is laying off half sleeping and non motivated employees. Here comes this CS informed employee to the water tank in the morning, and he / she enters into a adult and quasi intelligent discussion of the day's topic and issue from material gleamed right here on CS! The employer now impressed....keeps the axe from falling one more time that day.

So it is our small contribution (Dude and self) to the unemployment problems around the world. We are helping to keep the global economy going. Saving the planet. Exposing politicians to harsh internet criticism. Bring forth real valued opinion and commentary on small and meaningless political topics and issues.))

They are plenty of places on the net to blog and post fellows. I like CS because of its international flavor. But if considered an intrusion to your emoticon displays, I will gladly move on.

FYI....A DELTA flight from Amsterdam to Detroit just had a terror attack. Using a smuggle device thru the security sensor, a 23 yo
Nigerian detonated the device on the aircraft as it let down to Detriot. Passengers were able to detain the man and put out the small fire. All are safe, except for the attacker that suffer 2nd and 3rd degree burns.

US Homeland Security says that the man was connected to alQaida.
That he was trained in Yemen. Yemen, a topic of interest earlier in the thread post by this blogge.......

That is why I came online on Christmas to post.

Merry Christmas All..............

Let us assume that the full effect of the improvement will be seen after 2015... and what is wrong with this exactly TT? You talk as if America is "in the state of no birth no more" and as if it is end of time and there will not be more americans no more who will enjoy the benefits if living in poor conditions and not able to cover the expences of americans health care coverage as it is.

There is a lot other stuff being worried a bout than you and your generation alone TT... but still why do you think the most important is the generation you personally belong to ?

When the current medicade was suggested and became reality what did oponents say back then? There have not been any major change of the american health care coverege since 1912 and then later in the 60,s!

Oak... you are conservative but still is it not too much asking for no change after so many freaking years hanging on the almost same and not thinking a bout the world have changed and people are allowed to receive informations from each and every corners of the entire planet and then many americans demanding more equality and at least being able to feel secure as possible when ill?

Your guys have been able to make so much anti health care reforms in America by fear campains and specially talking a bout how horribly worng it goes in countries with universal health care paid from taxes and you have abused lack of real interest from many americans in the past regarding how life is in other countries than America...

Time have changed TT! People travelling and living in other countries now on days... not every body comes to your country to live and many americans travelling in the opposit direction as well and the net have melted us all and we can talk and exchange ideas and then your guys can not possibly with holding the flow of information and many americans know very well that most of the fear compains of your guys are lies and deception and fear mongering campains and just to get a politichal momentum and not much else!

What a bout a litte wealth redistribution? What is wrong with that exactly? The right of the fat and too rich oh lala... they cant consume as much russian caviar as they used to ... such a true disaster for the whole humanity

Your country men are dying each and every single year because of treatable illnesses and you are talking a bout wealth redistribution?

Did the founding fathers of America really truely thoguht as you do TT?

I am sure not all of them thought this way and many of them would feel honored to help their own countrymen to have a better life by giving a way some of their personal wealth. Are there diferent versions regarding american history or what ?

Great post in deed! Well shorlty defined too many americans have no idea the meaning of living in a capitalist system but still accepting some good parts of socialism to create a more equal society where the wealth is more equaly shared and the inhabitants have to accept that more equality creates more safty. Social democracy is not any thing like the ideas of Stalin or some thing like that but a great idea founded in Sweden and then copied in Denmark and in canada and else where. Europe is great to live in... if you wanted to try just go for it and dont hesitate!

I am sure America will stay as a great country to live in as well and I am sure feauter of America is bright and gud knows americans are so impatience and used to things have to get done fast ... but still many americans will be postively surprised in the next two-three years I am certain.

Thank you for your reply TT. I am not totaly agree with your grand dad with all respect.
America is very serious regarding activities of Alqueda all over the middle east and as you know those terrorists who attacked all of us on 9/11 were from Yemen and from Saudi arabia so if the search is going to conclude Yemen as well then fine with me and a bout time
Iranian regim is getting more and more desperate now on days before they will fail soon and wanting to use any means possible to keep staying on power... I am not sure them have given refuge to Bin ladens family is going ot help them keeping their bloody power any way. Bin Laden have a huge family and they are in many countries and the amount of money behong this particular family is huge... there is a real need to stop this flow of money in a very serious way.