Presidential candidate Obama speaks out against a private health insurance policy mandate.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

48. Lukewarm support for Obama now is going to get us Romney

for the next four years. Bringing this case before the SCOTUS opens
all the old wounds, how convenient for the repukes to watch us skirm.

I don't believe Obama ever really wanted the mandate, but I remember the
ugliness that surrounded the attempt to craft the healthcare reform plan. It
consumed the media and Obama paid later being accused of neglecting the
economic crisis because that was what the media projected when in reality
he was juggling crisis after crisis. Thank you GW Bush.

Obama is a constitutional scholar.Are we to believe he never strongly suspected
this would find it's way to the SCOTUS? During this period and shortly after he
made two successful appointments to the SCOTUS, hopefully to shore up support
when the inevitable happened.

This is Obama's legacy and I remember him saying if he had to be a one term president
to make this happen so be it.

Obama does need to proposes universal healthcare based on medicare for all.
Then he can fall on his sword for he has done everything he possibly could given
the restraints we can only imagine he had to deal with.