Take a look at Michael Wolff's column in The Huffington Post on why Obama is not working up a sweat on health care reform. According to Wolff it's because health care reform is so boring, so filled with long, bureaucratic words that fill your mouth with sand. Words like "single payer."
I remember almost 20 years ago the head of the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times telling me the same thing. "The winds of reform whip the sands up and they whirl around and around for months at a time and then they die down and nothing happens. It's so boring."
This is nothing but bullshit, an excuse for armchair critics to sit in their offices or before their computers and write about anything at all with a kind of wised-up, know-it-all critic's stance, ignoring everything about a subject that requires facts, evidence and a careful understanding of how large systems work or what other democracies are doing about the same problem.
Maybe Obama thinks the same thing, but what Wolf is saying is that he can't be bothered with trying to help his readers understand the single reform that can change everything in American politics----because he finds it boring and tedious that he might have to enlarge his understanding.
In other words, Michael Wolff prefers being lazy to working hard.
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