Armed with a PowerPoint presentation detailing how the new health-care law will go into effect, Jennings made his pitch: Obama needs your help, both to persuade millions of uninsured Americans to sign up for coverage and to combat Republican attempts to undermine the law.
I'm sure a lot of folks are still upset about the efforts to undermine the 18th amendment. That'd be Prohibition of alcohol - another progressive health care initiative.
For Obama and Clinton, whose relationship has been tense and sometimes hostile, selling health care gives them a chance to nurse old wounds while also helping each other politically. Whether this fall's high-stakes rollout of Obamacare is successful could define both Obama's legacy and the contours of the 2016 presidential contest, which Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is considering entering.
How could it not be successful? Poor folks have been waiting four years for more free stuff.
"Bill Clinton is to politics like a 12-year-old boy is to baseball: There's nothing he wouldn't do to be in the game," said Don Fowler, a longtime Clinton friend and former Democratic National Committee chairman. "That sense of being permitted to play and being appreciated and having people pay attention to him -- that's his ultimate motivation. That's what this circumstance gives him."
Not all that different from the present occupant of the White House, is it?
When Clinton and Obama appear together at the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday Hillary Clinton is expected to introduce them. Clinton was the face of her husband's unsuccessful legislative effort. And she has a lot on the line politically with the Obamacare rollout. If she runs in 2016, she will want Obamacare to be considered a success by voters of all stripes, not as the polarizing issue it is now.
Polarizing issue? Has the WaPo let the mask slip?
In addition, the closer Obama gets to her husband, the better Clinton is positioned to be the heir apparent, said a Democratic strategist. "Obama's not endorsing Hillary Clinton, but he's Clintonizing the Obama presidency on an issue that really matters," he said. "If I were [Md. Gov.] O'Malley or Joe Biden, I'd be jumping through the ceiling right now. I'd be very angry with President Obama for being with the Clintons."Sorry boys, it's The Chicago Way.
Six in 10 Americans do not understand what changes will occur as the new law takes effect,
Why isn't that a headline, somewhere? Instead all we get is the evil right-wing crazies trying to stop progress to please their greedy big-business overlords. Rhetorical question.
Divisions on health care long have split along party lines, but Clinton is one of the few political figures with crossover appeal. Nationally, over seven in 10 registered voters held a favorable view of Clinton in an April Fox News poll
A former Clinton campaign strategist said, "It's a wonderful thing to be able to have someone who clearly knows the subject, who strongly supports it and who's not a polarizing figure stand up and say, 'I've looked at this carefully,