The way I see it,
it appears that this President doesn't mind the 5 minutes of hate being lavished on him at the present, if in the end, he get us what we want on health care reform!

How he goes about getting us health care reform,
is exactly what most of us are fixated on right now...

and although most of us feel confident that something will get done,
we are just not sure as to what....

So, as we watch and speculate, different attitudes are emerging:

Some Say that this President is in the pocket of corporations
and will do what is best for them in the end (there is nothing that actually proves this theory
without doubt, other than the simple distrust of politicians and the skepticism of our politics).

Some of the same as well as others Say that the President's leadership is weak on the issue of Health Care Reform. They Say he needs to do the "right thing" and they want him to pin himself down, as a matter of principle, as to exactly where he stands, and to do this actively and forcefully via the Bully Pulpit and behind the scene. They want him to take on the opposition face on, and put them in their place; that would be the ones spending millions and who have the assistance of the Corporate media who work hard each and everyday at shaping public opinion using every tool they have.

They want him to shout out his exact thoughts on the matter, clear and unambiguously as to what he wants the initial senate bill to look like......although the same folks have already decided what the bill should look like, even if goes down in defeat looking the way they want to see it. This is the bill they want to see Obama stand up for; a bill that can be changed via the amendment process before it can get to conference (although of course, if the bill doesn't get 60 votes in the senate, it stops right there).

They opine and Say that he has no courage (although apparently, he is not caving to demands that he chooses his battle before conference, and to me, that's quite courageous on his part)......

Some Say he is not leading (although the bill has apparently gotten to where it had never gotten to before, which to me shows that he is indeed leading)......

Some Say that he is playing checkers, not chess (although apparently those same people don't want to understand that "Making sausage" means that Conference is where the final bill is shaped, and this is the bill where no amendments are allowed to bastardize the bill, and the one where 60 votes are only required for Cloture, and not the final vote on the actual bill)......

Some Say....that this President has made a "mess of this" through lack of communication.....(although I believe that this lack of communication has actually gotten many of us off our ass,
and actively participating....so to me, he communicated clearly that he needs us to be active much more than we need him to be hollering out what he thinks (which we want to be what we think).

What I can say is that it appears that this President is used to and can take the 5 minutes of hate that he is being showered with while he works at making things happen....rather than to be absorbed at keeping his supporters happy and smiling and loving him throughout the entire process....a process that has never gotten this far in 50 years.

I'm just glad that this President is not so arrogant to the point that he can't take the heat in the process of making the Sausage. I'm glad that his ego is not fragile or his primary concern, but that getting a bill is.

There will be the tale that is told after-the-fact.....and that is when what Some Said will be written into the annals of history.....

But till then, we should continue with the speculations, and those who need to
should please add their dash of hate....
cause after all, I do believe that this President can take it.