Obama's Lockbox

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Rath said:

Samus Aran said:


All that matters to Obama is that it gets accepted as people(read as voters) will see it as a victory. He doesn't give a damn about the health care it self, it's just a way to win the people over again.

Obama could have ditched this ages ago and basically have come out politically better off. Or he could have pushed through an extremely watered down version that would have gotten support of some of the republicans. He's a good enough politician to know it too.

I'm pretty sure he's fighting for this out of genuinely wanting this healthcare bill.

I agree he wants this, but he is fighting for this bill, because he is in major trouble, and the lesser of two evils is to pass this.

What in reality will most likely happen, is this bill will get overturned in the supreme court. So the end, it won't really matter to the people.

His problem is there is no win here for him. The way to make the most people happy, would be to just kill the bill. No one wants it. But the problem is, even if he did that, he would not gain any votes, but he would lose the far left wing votes.

So, the best political outcome for him (still a bad one however), is to pass the bill.