Obama is the Best!

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IMO He is the most eloquent orator ever attempting to blow smoke over a nation of people. [u]His arrogance and determination to have HIS way is unbelievable. [/u] What happens when you throw 38 lawmakers, four television cameras and the president of the United States together and tell them to fix health care? Sniping. Posing. Serious election-year politics. And little hope of bridging the gap between Barack Obama and Republicans. Did you expect anything else? From its conception, Thursday's health care "summit" was destined to be little more than a stage where Democrats and Republicans would recite their lines and further their political agendas. Playing their part, Republicans branded Obama as arrogant and overreaching for refusing to drop a health care plan that a majority of voters don't favor. The GOP hopes to kill it. Obama tried to cast the Republicans as obstructionists. He hopes to ram his proposal past a GOP filibuster. Obama dominated the conversation, barely contained his impatience with GOP statements and at times mocked them for trotting out visual effects (thick stacks of Democratic health care legislation) and talking points. Republicans complained about the time disparity and lectured the president about his policies. It was not a conversation, rarely even a debate. It was a series of made-for-TV speeches by public servants who treated each other like stage props. But at the end of the day, Obama seemed resigned to waging a procedural fight in the Senate to steamroll Republicans, who otherwise can use their 41 votes to curb any legislation. Such a brass-knuckled tactic could backfire on Democrats. Win and they get called arrogant. Lose and they're labeled arrogant failures. It's risky business for Republicans, too. Block the bill and they get called obstructionists. Fail to stop Obama and their Democratic rivals have a historic legislative victory to campaign on. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_summit_analysis [i] I actually listened to about 5 hours of the meeting trying vainly here something that would help. One thing I did agree on was when Obama said the poor people on Medicaid did have coverage but the unemployed and the middle class who are struggling need help.[/i] Your opinion please. Did this summit meeting actually change anything??