Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles


0.0 miles run this week.
Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day.
Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles.
Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.

Day183 Monday 02/28/11

ran 3.3 miles
If you have the ability to read between the lines of the media and the words of Barack Obama, it is clear that today he was pressured into taking an action he had no desire to perform. Leading up to the midterm election, Barack Obama had this to say about the GOP joining Democratic goals for reform: “They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in the back.” Following his schoolboy, pep rally tone and attitude he had his rear-end handed to him on November 2, 2010. Mere months later and now he is offering concessions on his health reform legislation. He is not doing this because he wants to but because if he doesn’t it will only hurt him for reelection. Simple textbook political posturing. Barack Obama has finally accepted the fact that judges are overturning his health care law because it is deemed unconstitutional and that the majority of our states are burning midnight oil to pass the Health Care Compact, which would give individual states sovereignty to design their own unique statewide health care laws.

Predictably, Barack Obama is now announcing that states will have the right to their own state health care as long as it reaches the federal government’s standards. Originally, states were going to be granted this option in 2017. Obama decided to bump down the privilege of avoiding the federal government’s overbearing power on states to 2014. This is a moot gesture and it is not even a speed bump worth braking for on the road to the Health Care Compact or the possible overturning of the law in the Supreme Court. But it is Barack Obama publicly displaying the acknowledgment that he has to face a country who does not want his legacy legislation, health care reform.



Another topic of interest is the recent news with workers’ unions in Wisconsin, which is trickling to other states, as well. AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka is a bottomless well of controversy regarding Barack Obama’s relationship with the unions. Trumka has a handful of videos floating around, in which he has no shame in revealing how instrumental he is in the White House. As a consequence to the Democratic party, any power the unions lose in Wisconsin or other states will directly weaken the liberals in terms of campaign financing and voter demographics. Trumka toots his horn about how often he is contacted by the White House in contrast to the fact that many Cabinet members Obama had appointed were never even contacted by the president in the first two years of his term. Literally, not one single time. These Cabinet appointees are placed in particular offices for the sole purpose of advising the president on his decisions. Richard Trumka is called upon to offer his input to the White House two or three times a week.



1,568.7 miles to go.