Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Monday, August 17, 2009 7:21:49 AM
A defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
"If we're able to stop Obama on [health care reform], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Senator Jim DeMint, July 20, 2009
After being the defining feature of Obamacare President Obama on Saturday for the first time downplayed the significance of a public option and told a Townhall meeting:
"All I'm saying is, though, that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it."
Was this an admission of defeat for the public option and the historic chances for socialized medicine in America? In other words, has Obama met his Waterloo with Obamacare joining Hillarycare on the ash heap of leftist history? It certainly appears so.
The Townhall meeting was held at Grand Junction, Colorado, the state where Obama signed into law his disastrous, failed, phony "stimulus" bill, which has done much to undermine his credibility on healthcare reform and everything else. Moreover, and more importantly as an unmistakable sign of defeat, the Townhall meeting was held on August 15th, the 240th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte's birth (see)*.
*Napoleon was born August 15, 1769
Postscript (Revised)
From Obama's signing of the Stimulus Bill on February 17th to his Townhall meeting on Saturday gives us a total of 179 days. 11 days separate Obama's 48th birthday on August 4th from Saturday's Townhall meeting (see ). When we multiply 179 by 11 it gives us the number 1969 a number auspicious for Republican presidential hopes in 2012. For 1969 was the year Richard Nixon was sworn in as 37th President after defeating Hubert Humphrey.