Obama’s GOP conspiracy comment unfair

President Obama has resorted to name calling, pulling no punches when he alluded to an alleged GOP conspiracy to stop his health care reform bill.

The President has remained fairly calm throughout the summer-long health care reform firestorm. However, fierce public opposition to his plan is making him testy. Pro-reform supporters thought that Obama’s string of August town hall meetings would do much to pacify critics; however, that hasn’t been the case. The President’s approval rating continues to dip, while all major polls show a majority of America disagrees with the way he’s handling health care.

A recent blast of immature and miscalculated finger-pointing, shows that Obama has run out of ploys to sway the public to his side of the reform debate.

“I think early on, a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, ‘Look, let’s not give him a victory, maybe we can have a replay of 1993, ‘94, when Clinton came in, he failed on health care and then we won in the mid-term elections and we got the majority. And I think there are some folks who are taking a page out that playbook,” Obama said.

This is an arrogant and irresponsible statement by the President. American citizens weren’t ready for nationalized health care under Clinton, and they are making it quite apparent that they aren’t ready for it now. Democracy means allowing the people to voice their opinion, and assumes that politicians will hear out their constituents.

When the people vocalize their heartfelt desires, only to be called conspiracy theorists, it undermines the system. It also insults the intelligence of Americans who think for themselves and weren’t intoxicated by the “Change we can believe in” rhetoric.

Mr. President: just because someone disagrees with your legacy bill, doesn’t make them a conspirator. It simply means they are standing up for their right to believe and speak freely, as you do.

President Obama is finding out very quickly that Americans can be pushed only so far. When their civil liberties and rights are endangered, and the government threatens to run their lives with an iron fist, they will stand up and fight for justice. If the health care bill is rammed through in its current state, we’re looking at a one-term presidency for Obama. His only saving grace would be a radical shift to the center, which harkens back to Clinton.

Perhaps that is what the President is most afraid of. Compromise isn’t fun, especially when it means being forced to drift closer to those GOP conspiracy-mongers.