Thursday, June 28, 2012

It's OK to Support the President Again, Obamacare is Legal

Response to the Supreme Court PPACA (Obamacare) decision:

There has been a palpable and distinct effort to illustrate and illuminate the fundraising disparity between prospective Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama. Much has been made of last month's fundraising in both sides' campaign apparatus (Romney has raised significantly more money than the President thus far in the campaign - a first in history).

The money Obama raised in 2008 was from a massive ground-swelling of individuals, given largely in the hopes that he could get into office and address the issues the American People need resolved. His action was to pass a brutally fought and highly divisive health care law meant to curtail the biggest single fiscal liability in the American economy.

After today's decision, the political reality in America is no longer a matter of having this President's vision or methods invalidated by "higher authorities," and it is no longer within the grasp of the Republican opposition to realistically strike the pose that they are defending the Constitution from assault by some variant of 'outsider' (in the parlance of political spin).

That the American people, and even Obama supporters were unwilling to throw away good money after bad in support of a person and platform the monied interests in Washington, New York and around the Country could bind, gum up, or otherwise "out argue", is no projection of power for the Romney campaign. Instead, it means that the true supporters of this Country and it's President aren't celebrity-gushed fan-boys-and-girls blindly following their latest political crush.

This decision precipitates a permission to those who are truly interested in helping this Country move forward, that it's okay to support, talk about, and give money to the President's political campaign, precisely because his politics not only match the will and wish of the American People, but that his policies can be implemented realistically and, most importantly, Constitutionally.

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