Obama - a year and some later

Well, he certainly is in a wasp's nest! All those testy Republicans bound and determined to bring him down. I don't really understand their arrogance - how can they possibly imagine that the American population will be fooled for long by their partisan politics? Eventually, their voter base will get fed up with their petulance and punish them like the spoiled children they are impersonating.

A sad result of the Republican Party's virulence is that it will probably force Obama to ditch the bipartisan approach he had hoped to take. How many times does the door have to slam in your face before you stop opening it?

I am very happy for my friends and relatives still living in America that they now have at least some semblance of universal medicare. It's only civilized. I can only hope, for the sake of the poor and sick, that the bid made by certain state governors to reject Medicare will fail.

We do live in interesting times...