General Discussion

What people are for and what they can achieve are two different things. My opinion that the White House is FOR health care for Americans comes from an hour I had with one Barack Obama last year. Maybe he told you something different in the meantime? I suppose I can't discount the possibility. Lacking the powers of a benevolent (or otherwise omnipotent) dictator, Obama knows he'll never achieve universal health care during the lifetime of his administration, but he wants to start paving the way rather than doing nothing.

As for who is also for it (and is, alas, not in Washington) there is Howard Dean. Howard is a personal friend, and I take his word to me over anything he told you unless he has changed his views in the last week. I confess to not having talked with him in the last seven days.

It's easy to pontificate over what you think what people want, but you're on more solid ground sticking to what (and whom) you know. In such situations where all I have is an opinion, I try to preface my posts with what I think, or how things appear to me.