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17. Great Graphics to go with the OP's news, she.. thank you! Just like Obamacare was "Obama's

Tue May 20, 2014, 12:01 AM

May 2014

Waterloo".. Ooops, Waterloo alright but President Obama and the American People were the Victors..

Waterloo: Obama is our Duke of Wellington

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DeMint may be demented, but he was right about one thing: health care reform was indeed Obama's Waterloo. DeMint was just wrong about which side had the Napoleon complex.

In warfare, there is typically a winning side and a losing side. Pacifists may prefer to think that in war everyone loses, yet ABBA grasped the essential zero-sum nature of war in their 1974 hit single 'Waterloo': 'Waterloo—I was defeated, you won the war.'

The British military leader credited with the victory at Waterloo was Field Marshall Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington. So epic was the victory that a dish was named for him: Beef Wellington.

As at Waterloo, someone had to win the epic battle to determine whether Americans deserve, like their counterparts in the other industrialized democracies, to receive medical treatment when they are ill. Waterloo was not just an epic defeat; it was also an epic victory. And like Duke Wellington, Obama's name has already entered everyday speech by being attached to his unprecedented achievement in law: Obamacare.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/24/850054/-Waterloo-Obama-is-our-Duke-of-Wellington

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