Forget the questions about whether our President has been on television too much for his own good this past week, I looked at the media debate about that as a bunch of commentators with not enough substance to talk about. Let's ramble a bit about what's on his plate now. Being president these days is like taking a stroll through a dark alley full of pit bulls at midnight.
The President gave his first address to the United Nations and took his turn presiding at the Security Council.
The health care debate seems to go on forever, especially the question of the public option. The insurance industry really fears a government sponsored alternative plan choice as a way to give actual competition to health care for everyone. This kind of option would actually mean giving people a choice at any age to sign up for a kind of medicare.
The latest alternative from the Senate Republicans would be funny if it wasn't so stupid: a so-called alternative option which would involve requiring everyone to have health insurance which would only be offered by insurance companies, no government option. The insurance companies of course are all in favor of this as it would mean billions more income for them and all they would have to do is offer cheap, vitually worthless plans which those who can't afford would have to buy.
This was almost as humorous as Sarah Palin flying to Hong Kong to earn a big speaking fee for lecturing financiers on the intricacies of world finance. I wonder if she could see Red China from her hotel window?
The news this morning however pushes the seemingly endless health care debate to page 2: the news from Iran of their having a second plant to enrich uranium. This forced the French and British leaders to join Mr. Obama in condemning this action and warning Iran that the consequences will be severe unless they allow immediate inspection of this program and that it be stopped. The thought of Iran entering the nuclear weapons business is too terrible to imagine.
A side benefit of this action on Iran's part could be Russia joining the NATO nations in imposing sanctions on Iran and the possibility that China might follow Russia's action.
This has been quite a week for President Obama, and all of us.
Iran it turns out is the latest pit bull in the alley.
Friday, September 25, 2009
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