Today, when what actually appears to be a lot less than a million protesters are showing up at "Town Hall" meetings, the media seem to conclude that this is a complete hindrance to the current-President's major initiative.
Why? What causes them to take such a different view of the disputes?
There's also some criticism of President Obama for putting forth different rationales for his Health Care Plan. This, I've read, completely discredits the entire plan. Unlike, of course, then-President Bush's continuous floating of different trial balloons as reasons he should be allowed to invade Iraq. My own favorite was the assertion that the cost of patrolling the No-Fly Zones (something like $55 million/year) was simply too much for the DoD budget to bear! At any rate, the then-President finally struck paydirt with his claim that Iraq had WMD, which got the public scared enough to believe the absolutely unsubstantiated assertion, and logrolled the Congress, not a group noted these days for their Profiles In Courage. So, Bush got his way. Ending up wasting a few trillion dollars and creating a permanently destabilized and ungovernable Iraq in place of the 55 million dollars a year and a permanently disabled but stable Iraq. To say nothing of the numberless dead.
By comparison, today's major issue, health care reform, doesn't seem important to the people who haven't had to think about their own future.
I myself am endlessly thankful for the government's Socialized Medical Care program. Without Medicare, I'd have to keep working until I finally dropped dead - or figure out some way to get filthy rich. This only to have some way of paying for medical care if something should happen.
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