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...during the commercial breaks of “So You Think You Can Dance,” I caught a few minutes of U.S. President Barack Obama delivering perhaps the finest speech he’s ever given. The jury is still out on whether his leave-it-to-Congress strategy was the smart way to go about reforming America’s dysfunctional health-care system, but there is little question that in his speech he assumed leadership over the nearly century-long effort to provide health insurance to every American man, woman, and child. Sometime in the very...
Obama, President Barack • effectiveness of speech to Congress by, especially the last part...
...heckle heard round the world - or at least all over cable news. As President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on health-care reform on Wednesday, Sept. 9, Representative Joe Wilson broke the chamber's strict etiquette by yelling "You lie!" after the President (accurately) noted that his proposed health-care benefits would not extend to illegal immigrants. With those two words, the South Carolina Republican was transformed into a national political figure (if only briefly), loathed by Democrats and rebuked by fellow Republicans for defying tradition. At the GOP leadership's behest, Wilson called the White House...
...embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love. It demeaned the institution." - Vice President Joe Biden (ABC News, Sept...
...health-care plan in that same spot 16 years ago. It turned out to be the high-water mark for an initiative that spent the next year in a drawn-out death spiral and that proved to be a failure that helped cost the Democrats control of Congress in the 1994 elections...