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Great Leaders Are Willing To Retire Unloved And Unpopular As The Price For Great Exertion.

Every Two Years The American Politics Industry Fills The Airwaves With The Most Virulent, Scurrilous, Wall-to-wall Character Assassination Of Nearly Every Political Practitioner In The Country - And Then Declares Itself Puzzled That America Has Lost Trust In Its Politicians.

I Think The First Thing Is To Recognize A Mistake That Obama Made. And Others Have Made In Thinking That You Can Revolutionize A System That's Unbelievably Complex And Interlinked, One-sixth Of The Economy. That Was A Mistake Because Whenever You Change One Thing, It Changes 80 Other Things, And Now If You're Changing Everything At Once, You Have No Idea What The Outcome Is Going To Be And You Get All Of These Unintended Side Effects.

[barack Obama Failed To Sell A Health Care Reform Plan To American Voters] Because The Utter Implausibility Of Its Central Promise - Expanded Coverage At Lower Cost - Led Voters To Conclude That It Would Lead Ultimately To More Government, More Taxes And More Debt.

With Our Financial House On Fire, Obama Makes Clear Both In In His Speech And His Budget That The Essence Of His Presidency Will Be The Transformation Of Health Care, Education And Energy.