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In reply to the discussion: I’ve Read Obama’s Secret Trade Deal. Elizabeth Warren Is Right to Be Concerned. [View all]colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)He will get his due as the first black, really half black president, as he should.
He will get ripped for his TPP shilling (as will Bubba for NAFTA etc), but that's not all. He will get ripped for saying he was going to try to reign in Wall Street and then....bringing in the same pro/in and out of Wall Street hacks who wrecked it.
He'll not get high marks for wasting time trying to work across the aisle with a crazy, obstinate party. Stuff like working and buying into that "Grand Bargain" - as in a grand bargain for the wealthy.
The ACA - better than nothing but it didn't do a lot about cost. When I hear it has made costs rise slower I wonder...while this is better than more steep increases, it's way too high as is, this did little to control those.
The person who will get the most kudos on health care, if it happens, will be the person that goes to a very cheap single payer system like the rest of the non tinhorn nations. For profit health care is obscene.
The Obama apologists are remarkable and indomitable. If he suddenly declared himself King they would find a way to rationalize it. Again, blind loyalty is dangerous.
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