AP: Obama's nose is growing

[Chad32]

Obama's promoting medicare for all now. It would have been better if he pushed it while he still had the power to enact it. Instead we get the ACA, which didn't go far enough. I find it a bit dishonest to talk about it now, when he safely can't do much about it, but talking like he's on the right side of the issue now paints him in a better light for people who don't know he started with a super majority when he was in office. He could have gotten anything he wanted, but he buckled and went with something the republicans hated anyway.

Just an FYI, he was pushing for a version of medicare for all when he was President. It was called the public option. Joe Lieberman didn't support it, and his vote was require to avoid a filibuster. Ultimately it was dropped to get something passed.

The 60 votes Obama had in the Senate was flimsy thanks to right-leaning Dems and Lieberman, much how many decisions in our current Senate are based on the whim of Senators Collins and Murkowski for the Republicans.

He should have been harder of those democrats, then. Saying if they don't fall in line with progressive plans, he'd have them primaried. He needed to be tougher, but he buckled.