You're Wrong Obama

President Obama told the WaPo that he did not campaign in support of a public option. What? Was he drunk? Of course he campaigned in support of a government-run health care option. It was not his whole reform package but it was part of it.

Now is not the time to start suffering from self-inflicted amnesia. You didn't push the option hard enough and now it's noticeably absent from the Senate's version. Progressive support didn't just appear out of thin air. You campaigned on the notion of health care reform that included some sort of a government buy-in. It's insulting to suggest otherwise.

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