As a Briton on Newsvine, the first uncomfortable thing I noticed when I joined two years ago was the way people are labelled immediately with political monikers. Personally, I have never joined a political party.
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Mama mia! Is that what American free speech i all about? Rights without responsibilities?
First, he, a black man, was elected president. That started the penises of millions of white Americans shrinking, causing them to lose those feelings of being superior to millions of blacks.
The passage of Obama's health insurance bill in the House of Representatives should have been a dream come true for progressive Democrats who have had a public healthcare option in their sights for so long.
Alistair Darling pledged today that the government would step up its fight for a new international tax on banking despite an initially frosty response to the plan from Washington.
A new significant moment for the American history books has just occurred: the new Health Care Bill has been passed by Congress, notable for the fact that only one Republican voted for it, all the others blithely ignoring what their voters and constituents might have wanted.
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WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.
Good support by the President.
The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this:
I cannot believe that it is exactly one year ago today I was in Grant Park watching the results of the American presidential election, seeing my predictions come true and the new President-Elect walk unto the stage with his family.
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2008: Barack Obama has not initiated any private discussions.