Terence Samuel on Obama‘s need to lay down the facts on health care:
Mr. President: You’re right; they’re wrong, and don’t you forget it.
There is some good news for President Barack Obama on health-care reform: No one of consequence is seriously arguing to kill it outright. Despite all the sound and fury of the summer town halls, to be against health-care reform is still not a winning position with the American people.
It is important for the president to keep this bottom-line calculus — that he is on the right side of this issue both morally and politically — at the top of his mind when he returns from vacation to a chorus of depressing reviews about how badly August turned out for him and the prospects of health reform.
