Reply #56: I am one of the posters that feel the far left overreach and damages chances

[bluestate10]

for future progress. But I am a moderate, so I would feel that way. I don't have an issue with most progressive thought. But I do have issue with what I see as a lack of perspective. Near the end of his life, Edward Kennedy remarked about how if he had been willing to take less to get health care reform passed maybe it would have passed many years ago. Progressives rail about not having the public option, without accepting the reality that if the option had been included, health care reform would be dead today and a state like Vermont would not be on the threshold of implementing a public option on a grand scale. I view President Obama as an almost unworldly calm and wise person, I can only imagine what Senator Kennedy told President Obama while they were in the Senate and after President Obama was elected. Could it have been a wise old man looked back into his youth, saw mistakes and counseled a young, promising Senator to avoid those mistakes?