Can we just take a moment to recognize Pres Obama for what a Big F'ing Deal passage of the ACA was?

[Nitram]

33. The British called the Americans "Yankee Doodle Dandy", a foolish effeminate fop, and began

singing the song Yankee Doodle Dandy to mock us. We adopted the song as our own and proudly marched into battle to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

"Traditions place its origin in a pre-Revolutionary War song originally sung by British military officers to mock the disheveled, disorganized colonial "Yankees" with whom they served in the French and Indian War, apparently written c. 1755 by British Army surgeon Dr. Richard Shuckburgh while campaigning in upper New York.[13] The British troops sang it to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap.[1]

It was also popular among the Americans as a song of defiance.[1] As per the American Library of Congress, the Americans added additional verses to the song, mocking the British troops and hailing the Commander of the Continental army George Washington"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Doodle