{resident Barack Obama--> Yay or Nay
While I didn't see him as the second coming, he was always my first choice and I believed in the change he promised. While I like a lot of what he's done, there's a chameleon-like quality to the man I distrust (I suppose he wouldn't have got where he is without it). His stance on healthcare is my biggest disappointment. Two years ago he said he believed strongly in a universal payer system and that the only obstacles were control of the White House and both houses of Congress. Well...? Now that's all happened and he says getting rid of the insurance industry, the real source of the skyrocketing cost of healthcare, would be too "disruptive." Huh. We hear a lot about his concern for American families crippled by unemploymrnt but nothing about the 14,000 bankruptcies/day caused by medical costs (and 3/4 of people declaring bankruptcy because of medical costs were insured at the time they or their loved ones got sick). He seems strangely silent about these folks and their inability to send their kids to college, etc.
End of rant.