Blood on her hands
Today here in Phoenix, there is anxious anticipation. The president will be speaking to the VFW at approx. 10:30AM Pacific Standard Time. There will be three key groups protesting and rallying to him. The first are the angry Tea Baggers who have been carrying effigys of the president being hanged along with Congress and the donkey which symbolizes the democratic party. The other two groups which are considered progressive will be the Democratic party along with the Progressive Democrats of America which plans a march of its members through the streets of Phoenix. The second group is called the Arizona End the War Coaliton, it will be standing on the corner nearest to the Phoenix Convention hall where the president will be speaking. Although both groups are cordial with each other they represent what could become a widening divide of the progressive movement in America if the president and the democratic party bail out on a "public option" and eventual "single payer" health care. One clear difference will be that the democratic party will be carrying signs supporting healthcare reform while the Arizona End the War Coaltion will be standing near where the president is speaking with signs demanding the president get our soldiers out of Iraq and Afghanistan and that the money saved will pay for health care reforms that they say American people want.
On Saturday, while president Obama was in Arizona visiting the Grand Canyon, the Arizona Democratic Party was having its official state meeting not far away in a city called Flagstaff. They passed a resolution calling for public option with eventual advancement toward single payer health care but apparently, although the president wasn't far away at the Grand Canyon, he either wasn't listening to their resolution or just ignored it because he had his H.H.S. secretary making statements later making statementts to the effect that a public option was not a crucial element.
The estimates are that there will be large amounts of the so called angry, thuggish Tea Baggers burning the president in effigy outside of where he makes his speech in Phoenix and now many are wondering, will these diametrically opposed groups agree to disagree or will the Tea Baggers launch into intimidating and violent behavior as they have done in the past?
Leonard Clark
reporting
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