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[C. G. Estabrook]

	Obama’s Health Care Charade
	By Glen Ford
	05/13/2009

President Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress advocates of 
single-payer health care. He has choreographed a grand theater of faux-change, 
in which he "seeks to create a façade of unity along lines that do not threaten 
corporate power." The goal is to "sidetrack, possibly for decades, the most 
broadly supported idea in American politics, today." This "requires elaborate 
reconstructions of reality," starting with "methodically erasing single-payer 
advocates from the picture, with the enthusiastic collaboration of the corporate 
media." Thus, Obama and compliant Democrats on The Hill stage "summits" and 
"public roundtable discussions" on health care from which majority U.S. opinion 
is totally excluded...

Obama’s conduct of the health care non-debate gives the lie to his supposed 
credo – that he seeks to unite Americans around issues of common concern. In 
reality, Obama seeks to create a façade of unity along lines that do not 
threaten corporate power. He is determined to shut down the Left, and will 
succeed in doing so as long as “progressives” persist in believing that, deep 
down, this president is on their side.

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http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=print/content/obama%E2%80%99s-health-care-charade