Why Obama is the Bomb-A, Why Cheney is Lamey.

Tommy Douglas would be proud.

Our favourite president Ba-rock the vote is trying his darndest to reform healthcare in the United States - i.e losing your finger might not cost you 5,000 bones (no pun intended). The cost is an astronomical 1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, a large but necessary sum to stabilize the skyrocketing health care costs in the US.

I can almost feel the collars tightening around the Republicans (and Blue Dog Demos) necks who may or may not have a conflict of interest due to their investments in certain Pharmaceutical corps. When all else fails? Scare tactics. War mongering, vote garnering, good ol' fashioned propaganda which leaves the mailable American mind desperately ordering the latest Swine flu vaccine.

But Obama won't let down. He called out these scare tactics today and, love him or hate him (if you hate him, you probably shouldn't read this blog) you have to respect the man's courage to stand up agaisnt some of the most powerful corporations and their investors in the "free world".

Somewhere Dick Cheney is crying into his anthrax-o's.

Image courtesy of (Jim Young/Reuters).