We voted for hope and change, not hollow gestures.

[highplainsdem]

And this sham of a health care bill, which Keith Olbermann dissected tonight, is nothing but a hollow gesture.

Especially when you think of what it COULD have been.

And most especially when you think of what Obama is still calling it, as of the interview with Charles Gibson on ABC tonight:

"This will be the single most important piece of domestic legislation that's passed since Social Security."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/obama-talks-abc-news-charles-gibson-health-care/story?id=9346728&page=2

I wish he'd just been joking, since what he said really is a joke.

Obama isn't stupid. So he can't honestly, sanely believe that the current HCR bill is a great piece of legislation.

So is this incredibly cynical salesmanship? He thinks he can sell us on this travesty of a health care bill by telling us it's great? He thinks we're that stupid, or that swayed by his eloquence?

Or has he already sold himself so much on being viewed by history as FDR's equal that he's blinding himself to everything wrong with the bill, deluding himself that it isn't as bad as others can see it is, just so he can sign ANY health care reform bill?

I'd expect this sort of clueless hyperbole from Bush. God knows we heard enough of it from him. I didn't expect it from Obama.

[dflprincess]

1. He's either delusional

or thinks we are.

[leftstreet]

2. A MANDATED for profit insurance scam would certainly be historical

[tavalon]

4. So would the general strikes, sickouts and massive demonstrations

So, this looks to be quite the historical year.

[tavalon]

3. I think even the center of our party is feeling gobsmacked

We on the left find today to be same as it ever was.

[lapfog_1]

5. The message unity police will be by shortly to enforce the

orthodoxy. It's a great bill because, well, the President will SAY it's a great bill when he signs it.

:sarcasm:

[eleny]

6. I imagine some have decided to stay away from DU altogether today

The awful truth must be dawning on some of them. It's a terrible thing to feel duped. No doubt, some are feeling that awful twinge.