Obama is back-pedalling on a "national healthcare system" because like most "liberals" he has no real conviction.....the right will sacrifice anything but the system itself for their "principles",but we on the left lack the belief that would give us courage to press on. To the left, politics is simply a career, any conviction socialist is smothered at birth by the "liberals".

Look back at American history and see that any real change was achieved not by any mealy mouthed politician, but by people of conviction who led us on a straight path to a better society.

"liberalism" will never give us real change, only change the words that say "you are slaves and will stay slaves!"....Ake