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...Republican Party, a public health-care-insurance option is a "non-starter," the first step on a slippery slope to socialized medicine; in the eyes of the American Medical Association (AMA), it could "restrict patient choice"; while for President Barack Obama, as he put it on Monday during his speech to the AMA in Chicago, it's an essential part of any health-care-reform package that would "put affordable health care within reach for millions of Americans...
...credit, clench-jawed Netanyahu could have used the re-election of Israel's favorite bogeyman, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in Iran to raise the usual security alarms and resort to time-tested fear-mongering. But in his speech, he mentioned Iran only briefly. (See a story about how Tehran's streets have become a battleground...
...right, the speech could have been much worse. Ever since U.S. President Barack Obama told the Israelis to freeze the settlements - and meant it, as opposed to previous U.S. Administrations that barked but never bit on that subject - the right has been worried that Netanyahu might cave. In fact, Netanyahu left himself familiar wiggle room on settlements too, saying the Israeli government would freeze settlements but allow room for natural growth (translation: ultra-religious families of eight should not feel the need to restrain their rate of reproduction...
...hours after the speech, the right called Netanyahu's acceptance of a two-state solution a sign of Bibi's Obama-ization. "It was a brilliant speech, but Netanyahu surrendered to American pressure. We will act with all our power against a Palestinian state," said Dany Danon, a Likud party leader. The hard-line Prime Minister didn't seem eager to deny his common ground with Obama. "I share the President of the U.S.A.'s desire to bring about a new era of reconciliation in our region," Netanyahu said...
...rally Monday, Mousavi supporters referred to the President's speech derisively, chanting, "Ahmadi, just keep saying it's a game of football." Marching past a Revolutionary Guard station full of uniformed men in position, the demonstrators chanted, "We are no weeds and dirt. We are the people of Iran...