Tight Rope Walker

President Obama is walking a tight rope. He wants to get something done concerning health care but he has two sides pulling at him and if he doesn't watch out, they will rip him apart. Earlier this week the administration let out how the President was not being married to the PublicOption in the health care reform bill. This got Rachael Maddow, Dr. Howard Dean and their liberal leaning crowd in a tizzy. Dean was on the morning news shows yesterday saying that if there's no Public Option, "health care isn't even worth passing," which then set a fire under Obama and his people because if he loses the more liberal wing of his party - game over for a second term.

The more I think about it President Obama may have to fall on his sword on this one, take a position and go all out, and let the cards fall where they may. Democrats are looking at him as wobbly, as if he'll take any bill that lands on his desk. In these days and times that's not acceptable, people have strong feelings, they could have sent anybody to Washington to be weak and indecisive. Many people 'really' looked at Obama as the 'messiah,' somebody needs to tell him that.

It really just occurred to me as-of-late, reading op-ed's and comments from some of the American people writing in, members of the far left are ready to fight for health care as much as the people on the far right. Obama's problem is that those on the left voted for him. If these people don't at least get a Public Option, (they have already given up on the single payer-Medicare style plan they really want) Obama will be a one term President.

In my opinion, the only way Mr. Obama can get out of this predicament is for the economy to take off like shot out of a cannon. The economy may be the only thing that will get Mr. Obama a pass. He still needs to take a stand though. Today Obama was to meet with former President Bill Clinton, I'll assume they're talking strategy, I hope their talking strategy. Clinton's been behind this eight ball before, he was always able to stay one step ahead of the Rethuglicans. I'm pretty sure Clinton is telling him not to become too close to many of the current Democrats in Congress -as they might not be around after November 2010.

I've said this before: the best thing that could happen to President Obama would be for the Rethuglicans to take back the House of Representives and Democrats keep the Senate. Clinton's telling him the same plus not to take it personally if it happens, he went through the same thing and look how he turned out...

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