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Sat 09 Sep 2009Obama faces difficult times as healthcare debate looms
AMERICA:WILL AMERICA return to its senses when Congress reconvenes on Tuesday? After mass migration to cloud cuckoo-land over the summer recess, can President Barack Obama regain the initiative?, writes LARA MARLOWE
The past month has seen violence at town hall meetings intended to provide a democratic debate on healthcare reform. Obama was called a “Nazi” and “Hitler”. A fundamentalist preacher in Arizona prayed for his death, and for that of homosexuals. The White House defended the second amendment right of thugs to possess rifles outside presidential venues.
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