Sunday, January 17, 2010


Looks like Democrats' run is already losing steam. The Senate race in Massachusetts, a largely Democratic state, is close. This fact is quite frightening for the Democrats in office. With an additional Republican in office, the Democrats would lose their hold on the 60 votes needed to pass the health care bill. Obama himself has taken time in his busy schedule to campaign for the Democratic candidate. Unfortunately his support in earlier elections like Virginia did not do much good so Democrats have every right to be worried. Some say that this imbalanace is a sign of the public's disapproval of the health care bill. Obama's approval ratings have seen a drop since last year being at just below 50%. Well, if this is a sign of discontent from the public I have to say I do not approve of Senate Democrats attempting to push the bill through as quickly as possible so they need not worry about that missing vote. And with all the changes that have been made to the bill, it does not sound like we would be making much headway anyways.

That aside, I was infuriated when I read that "A lot of people don't want Barack Obama to succeed...They don't want him to be a president that leads this country. They want him to be a president who fails," As if Obama can fail individually. Hello, if he "fails" it isn't an individual failure, it will have negative repercussions for the WHOLE NATION! So basically these people are saying they want our country to continue to flounder in a bad economy, screwed up health care system, and two wars abroad. Wow, god bless ignorant people.

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