$(document).ready( function () { talk_rendercallback({"enabled":"0","islive":"0","eid":6471,"total":"1","discussion":[{"nm":"Tom Mitchell","rs":"0","ms":"Obama dithered for the first year. He wasn\'t ready to go from Day One. Fortunately he finally recovered. Emanuel et al. possibly overlearned the lessons of the 1994 Clinton failure and decided to let a body where parochial and special corporate interests rule try to reform something as lucrative as the national health care system. Hopefully he will have learned the lessons for the rest of his domestic reforms in the first term or when he seriously takes on foreign policy in his second term.","pt":"Apr 14, 2010 00:26"}]}); });