{"id":3955,"date":"2010-03-22T16:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2010-03-22T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T21:07:15","slug":"plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/22\/plenty\/","title":{"rendered":"plenty…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Defining Moment<\/a>
Huffington Post<\/font>
by Robert Kuttner<\/strong>
Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect<\/sup>
March 21, 2010<\/div>\n

We have just witnessed what could be a turning point in the Obama presidency. In many respects we can thank Scott Brown. For it took the humiliating loss of Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, and the even deeper incipient humiliation of lost health reform, for Obama to be reborn as a fighter. It remains to be seen whether he will match the resolve that he finally summoned on health reform with comparable leadership on all of the other challenges he yet faces. <\/p>\n

But even those of us who were lukewarm on this bill should savor the moment and honor Obama’s odyssey. His Saturday speech was simply the greatest of his presidency. It reminded us of the inspirational figure in whom so many of us invested such hopes last summer and fall. If you have been on Jupiter and somehow missed the speech, you owe it to yourself to watch it<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n

At long last, we saw this president leading, as only a president can. And we saw him leading as a progressive Democrat<\/em>, finally admitting that no common ground with today’s Republicans is possible, narrating stories we all can recognize about the human tragedy that is our current health care system…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Well, it took this long. I guess the tension and the viciousness of the demonstrations at the Capital yesterday had me all steely eyed and girded. Inside, John Boehner was yelling like a crazed fundamentalist preacher. The people outside were like the haters and spitters on the side of the road at the Civil Rights marches of long ago. And I think I never want to feel like I felt when I realized that Bush and Cheney were reelected in 2004. I don’t think that even Obama’s election in 2008  broke through the defenses against that despair. I started reading this article and I couldn’t even see  it through the tears. It has just been so damned long since America has done something right. I don’t even know if the Health Care Bill is right in and of itself. I don’t even care. That’s for the future to decide. But this bill was passed for the right reason. At least we’re trying again. That’s plenty enough for me…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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