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This week's Supreme Court
decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) marked a major victory in President Obama's courageous fight to revise the broken healthcare system in America.
While the ACA may be both Obama's signature achievement and his achilles heel, there is no denying its boldness.
The President’s attack on the lobbyist-dominated monstrosity that is the American healthcare system showed enormous mettle. Regardless of what one thinks of Obamacare, it should be noted that no other president has been able to muster the know-how, the political muscle, and the intestinal fortitude to successfully pass legislation to overhaul our broken healthcare system.
Obamacare is not the only recent example of the President's willingness to take a stand and lead America forward.
Two weeks ago, in a statement delivered from the White House Rose Garden, the President
declared the United States will no longer pursue deportation of undocumented immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.
Conservative pundits questioned the President’s motives in making the election-year policy change, while Republican Congressional leaders had relatively little to say on the issue, partly in
deference to Mitt Romney, who continues to take a nuanced non-position on the announced changes.
Why would the President take the politically risky step of allowing some illegal immigrant children to stay in the U.S.?
