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SON, it's an easy answer to say there is no difference. It sounds very knowledgeable and all, but it is just lazy talk.    What we will have done when the health reform bill passes tomorrow is taken ONE step toward a more workable and compassionate union. Not yet a perfect union but in spite of all efforts against it, a small amount more perfect. No it doesn'
t amke all the difference, but it sure as hell makes some significant difference. You can jump to lazy conclusions all you want but the real hard work of political change (a job, by the way for which I surmise you are unsuited) comes from making hard-won small steps like this one. Followed by another. If Obama keeps on doing so in spite of all the muckraking and hateful vilification based on mythological horsepucky, why, he'll be earning his keep and then some.

Assume, just for discussion, this turns out to be the case.

Your own approach, in parallel and in contrast, will have left you doing pretty much what you are doing now, knowing best about the whole thing and accomplishing more of the same sameness. A change of nil. But you will still have the satisfaction of having great certainty that nothing has happened. And how terrible bad it is. I wish you the joy of it, if any can be found.


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