If this is how the debate would have started, it would be law, passed before Thanksgiving in 2009.

It is about time someone went on the offensive, thank you Mr President.

I like that he says "let's FIGHT for reform"

good stuff.

I like my President when he's pissed off :) And, while I like his even temper too, I wouldn't have minded if he had been a teeny bit less slow to reach the boiling point...

What frustrates me is the sheer stupidity of those who are frightened by the poll numbers against the bill. Those poll numbers are based on a false understanding of the health care bill. If it fails, the lie stands. If they pass health care reform, the proof will be experienced by everyone - even the cretins in the tea party. The GOP cannot cry about death panels when there are none. The proof will be in the passage and that is why the GOP is so desperate to scare the House from passing the Senate bill and to demonize reconciliation. The bills passes, they are exposed as liars who worked very damn hard to damage American families and the health of all Americans and for what? for political gain.

Let the Republicans defend their desire to do nothing! Let the Republicans run against HCR once it's passed, and let them try to tell us why it's a bad thing! Pass the legislation, and then bring it on! -Kevo

Now bring the thunder...

OFA needs to organize a DC march.

Great stuff....finally. The other thing about the poll numbers is that 1/3 of the people against it are Republicans who will never vote for it in any event, 1/3 are people who don't understand it, and 1/3 are LIBERALS who don't like it because it's not liberal enough!

Dang, he sounded a lot like JFK in that clip. you know the speech:

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

Obama could really do something great if he can hold on to that Kennedy mojo and avoid stuff like the Bay of Pigs and Marilyn Monroe.

Having a little passion for the issues is what's missing from the Democratic message. Being smart is not a virtue in itself. It's not enough to be factually correct. It's not always good to be the smart guys who know best. There's a moral and emotional case to policy that's too often forgotten.

Now all we need is 10 senators and 50 reps who sound like that, along with more than a few media personalities.

All right, that's more like it. Let's hope he doesn't finish the Teddy Roosevelt biography and get unfired up again.

Bully for Barack!

"They want me to pretend to do something that doesn't really help these folks."

That really sticks it to the weasels on both sides of the aisle. Good stuff!

Stirring; great stuff. Good luck, America!

Agreed with above poster...... this would have been a done deal last year.... if he had sharpened the rhetoric.

Start taking names and kicking ass.

Where oh where have the Republicans been in the last eight years???

I like the sound of this, also. I would ask that the insurance companies be challenged with a competitive version of Single Payer or at least a Public Option. I still resent being forced to pay the insurance companies for something they have resisted and lied about for years. It feels like hiring the bank robber to design the anti-robber security system for the bank s/he robbed, in exchange for their release from responsibility for the original robbery.

I guess if that is what it takes to get "reform", then so be it. A friend of mine who is an RN and has worked "in the system" for decades, finally had enough of the lying to justify coverage and quit. She personifies the courage to do the right thing, even if it isn't the popular or pragmatic thing. I believe MO'Nique's acceptance speech was a clear message to many that it is always preferable to stand for right than to settle for the easy.

peace,
st john

We've seen him getting fired up over the past couple of months, starting with the SOTU, and I suspect we'll be seeing much, much more of this from our president. And I, for one, and excited!

AM excited. I knew I should've previewed.

Bravo!
THIS is the guy I heard speak in Fayetteville, NC a few weeks before the election.
Now, keep it up. And MORE, MR. PRESIDENT! MORE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep hammering.

It would have been nice if Obama had bothered to make an effort a lot earlier in the process. For example, he might have done some work while the Democrats had 60 Senate votes.

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