Obama is already scaling back on his plan.....

[RadioRaheem84]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/abkmhxiginmm

Now he's back peddling on a public option for health care. I swear this guy is all smoke and mirrors. He is simply a liberal's wet dream, nothing more. Instead of appearing on Jay Leno and SNL and what ever other show yuppies watch, he should've stood firm on a nationalized health care plan.

[Revy]

He never supported universal healthcare. His campaign ad last year said that he was standing in some kind of stupid "middle" stance between the "extremes" of "big government/socialized medicine/high taxes" and " dishonest nsurance companies".

So it was pretty obvious from the start. All this bullshit about a "public " option is just obfuscation, they can say "public option" and make it look like it's something great when it's just more corporate crap.

[New Tet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/abkmhxiginmm

Now he's back peddling on a public option for health care. I swear this guy is all smoke and mirrors. He is simply a liberal's wet dream, nothing more. Instead of appearing on Jay Leno and SNL and what ever other show yuppies watch, he should've stood firm on a nationalized health care plan.

I voted for Obama with the full knowledge and understanding that he is a pro-capitalist reformer. Although I am disappointed by his waffling over the healthcare issue, I am not surprised. Nor am I surprised at the ferocity with which the corporations and the Republicans have defended their interests.

[Q]

A nice read on the topic by the Weekly Worker of last week: Wobbling to the right (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/780/wobbling.php).

[the last donut of the night]

Obama is just the product of 1) the capitalist political system and 2) the US´s two-party system.

[Q]

Another good article on this matter by the Weekly Worker of this week: Half-measure scandal (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/781/halfmeasure.php).

[Sarah Palin]

Obama is an asshole who never had any intention in the first place to implement his magical change.

If only he listened to his doctor:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-obamas-former-doctor-david-schei

[Lynx]

A travesty.

[The Idler]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/abkmhxiginmm

Now he's back peddling on a public option for health care. I swear this guy is all smoke and mirrors. He is simply a liberal's wet dream, nothing more. Instead of appearing on Jay Leno and SNL and what ever other show yuppies watch, he should've stood firm on a nationalized health care plan.
This would come as no surprise if you read the left-wing press during the campaign prior to the election. For example Lance Selfa in the Socialist Worker (http://socialistworker.org/2008/08/14/chasing-the-obama-mirage), Paul Street in ZMag (http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/19027), Jim Creegan in Weekly Worker (http://bit.ly/4nOFSv) and Patrick Martin in WSWS (http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/deb-o09.shtml).

[GPDP]

I especially enjoy Paul Street's column. He does an excellent job at debunking the Obama phenomenon from a socialist POV.