tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post2735467493315720822..comments2009-12-01T19:05:30.693-05:00Bilal Dabir Sekou, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12751285312796835766noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-32745712034818988822009-12-01T19:05:30.693-05:002009-12-01T19:05:30.693-05:00OK... I have no idea why I showed up as Catholic Encyclopedia Annual, 1992. <br /><br />That last comment was just from me, Chris Anderson.Chris Andersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-89006514717804789342009-12-01T19:03:38.459-05:002009-12-01T19:03:38.459-05:00You are, of course, completely right. <br /><br />I&#39;ve been thinking a lot about FDR these recently. I don&#39;t know a whole mess about FDR, but I have the general idea that he put civil rights on the back burner so he could do the New Deal and WW II and all. And it turns out that it was a back burner that stayed cold until he eventually died and Truman actually turned on a little heat... <br /><br />My point being... Obama has a lot on his plate: In addition to a couple of wars, he has jobs, keeping the country out of a depression, and healthcare. And it turns out, it seems, that one is ONLY allowed to do one thing at a time in Congress (why this is, I&#39;m not sure), so that Obama had to make a priority list -- and it apparently goes 1) Stop economic freefall into depression, 2) Healthcare, and 3) jobs. <br /><br />As unsavory as it is, I can&#39;t end up faulting him on this order -- that is, presuming he was right that combining the initial stimulus bill with a jobs bill would have imperiled passage (and I think it might have, maybe...), putting jobs ahead of healthcare ran the VERY significant risk of pushing healthcare back to 2010... when election politics would make it much harder to pass. And failure then, of course, would likely mean another 20 years before another try at universal healthcare. <br /><br />So yeah, we are long overdue for a jobs program. We are desperately long overdue. I&#39;m just not 100% sure that getting it earlier wouldn&#39;t have cost us healthcare reform.Catholic Encyclopedia Annual, 1922http://www.blogger.com/profile/00246372198695291175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8197781562278798072.post-89439963378030525152009-11-30T21:56:11.969-05:002009-11-30T21:56:11.969-05:00I absolutely agree. I wish you were on staff when I was a student at UHart! Your blog is a great read.Oh Penelopehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16267419058283185373noreply@blogger.com