President Barack Obama says he accepts the apology from South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson who shouted to the president “You lie!” during Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night on the urgent need for healthcare reform.
“I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said Tuesday that with Obama set to deliver an address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday on healthcare reform, “a bit of history [on the issue] may be in order.” In a blog post on his website, Reich [...]
This short film was shot in Westwood, California outside the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. It was produced by Lyn Goldfarb, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, in association with Ramblin’ Man Films, a web studio founded by filmmaker and political and social issues junkie Dustin Slaughter. Please see Ms. Goldfarb’s and Mr. Slaughter’s previous short, [...]
This short film was shot in Westwood, California outside the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. It was produced by Lyn Goldfarb, an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, in association with Ramblin’ Man Films, a web studio founded by filmmaker and political and social issues junkie Dustin Slaughter.
Here’s the full-text of the speech President Obama gave Monday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio at an event sponsored by the AFL-CIO union, where he spoke passionately and forcefully about his healthcare reform proposal. The speech suggests Obama will take a similar tone on Wednesday, when he will give an address on healthcare reform to a [...]
My Fellow Americans. I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two mistakes really. I thought that Congress could do its job and through the deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win broad support across the aisle and among all of you. But I’m afraid that I was wrong.
