On Health Care Reform: Obama's Biggest Mistake

From both polling to the Town Hall Meetings, there is definitely a backlash against Obama-Care. What the Democrats and Obama seem to have missed in their calculations on health care reform is the fact that America is still a politically center-right country. For decades it has been those in the political center and in the non-partisan middle who have decided our elections.

The worst thing that Obama and his team did was to ignore the political center. Obama, lacking true management skills and unable to think outside of his ideological box, tossed the development of the Health Care Reform Bill(s) to some of the most liberal members of Congress: Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and Ted Kennedy. This was a total mistake. Obama ignored the fact that it really wasn't his base of far-left supporters who put him into office. It was those Independents. Now, those same people who grass-rooted him into office are turning on him and the polls show it.

I think, now, that health care reform is DOA or, better yet, DBA (Dead Before Arrival) . Obama was a good campaigner where the concepts being expressed could be ghost-like in their details and he could get away with that. But, now, as President, the public is seeing the devil in those details; and, they don't like it. Like it or not, the lack of leadership on both the economy and his health care reform has become Obama's "Waterloo". It will truly take a boat-load of "positives" to happen before he can even think of regaining any of the lost public trust.