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 [...]
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told George Stephanopoulos Sunday that President Obama will try and make the case for a public option to be included in healthcare reform legislation, but he won’t threaten to veto a bill that doesn’t include one.
Gibbs also told Stephanopolous, host of ABC News’ “This Week,” that the White House [...]
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.
Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic also reported:
Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative if private insurance companies fail to meet quality and cost benchmarks [...]
Our friends over at The Political Carnival spotlighted this video report of a recent townhall meeting where protestors gathered to discuss, well, their opposition to healthcare reform and the “U.S.S. Constitution.” Head over to the TPC for their full report.
Congressman Jim Moran, D-Va., kicked protesters out of a townhall meeting Monday when they began to drown out comments on the issue made by former Gov. Howard Dean. One of the protesters was identified by Fox News as anti-abortion activist Terry Randall.
Ted Kennedy, the “Liberal Lion,” and one of the longest serving senators in the U.S. history, died Tuesday evening at his home in Hyannisport, Mass., after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
President Obama debunks the myths around health reform, and discusses the public option proposal in which many of them are rooted. But he focuses his address on the stark moral and historical turning point at which we find ourselves. August 22, 2009.
