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   The word today is that “officials” of the Obama administration are indicating that Obama will jettison the public option provision of the still incomplete health care proposal, if necessary.

If necessary?

That’s what he ran on, what he said he’d fight for, what was allegedly a cornerstone of his campaign.  No, not actually public option but single payer.  Walking away from single payer, gravitating to public option was the first compromise.

With Republicans like Sen. Grassley spitting in his face, and blatantly lying, he still wants to “negotiate.”  Frankly, that’s B.S.  He won riding the backs of many of us who believed, who thought he had courage, and if he turns his back now — with majorities in both houses of Congress, rather than getting tough with the recalcitrant Democrats, then who knows what else he will give up.

I voted for change, not for George W. Bush “Lite.”