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If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Has to Have a Nickname, Why Not Obamneycare?

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Obamneycare __________ Okay. I get why “ACA” might be a boring name for the Affordable Care Act; it doesn’t quite resonate and inspire. But why “Obamacare”? It seems to me that this nickname for such an important change in our healthcare system is too incendiary and polarizing, pitting Republican against Democrat, even among average citizens, cultivating an “Us versus Them” mentality when we should be working together to ensure that this change works for the benefit of all. I blame the media. Yes, you heard right: THE MEDIA. I expect Republicans to embrace the “Obamacare” term because it fits their narrative of “no” and negativity. No surprise there. But I don’t understand why the media (and even some Democrats) have jumped on “Obamacare” as the accepted lexicon for such an important and far-reaching change in healthcare, given that the ACA is actually a bipartisan idea, first carried out in Massachusetts as “Romneycare.” At the time, the term “Romneycare” made

President Barack Obama: "Justice Has Been Done"

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Justice will be done. --George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 Justice has been done. --Barack Obama, May 1, 2011 Barack Obama's May 1, 2011, announcement regarding the death of Osama bin Laden is reposted as follows: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory -- hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction. And yet we know that the worst

Osama bin Laden is DEAD!

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I want justice. There's an old poster out West that said, "Wanted, dead or alive." --George W. Bush But it was during Barack Obama's presidency that bin Laden was found and killed, not GWB's. As I write this, President Obama has just confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden, brought about by special operations forces in Pakistan. Normally, I would not find joy in someone's death, but this man was pure evil, a mass murderer, and the world is better without him--although an alive bin Laden on trial might have been satisfying to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11. Let us hope that the international and political situation changes for the better and not for the worse. A new world order? No doubt, May Day--May 1, 2011--will conjure up that age-old historical question, "Where were you when..."

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