Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," David Axelrod, Obama's top political aide, said the White House still favors drug re-importation and wants to move forward on it.Sure. Obama supported it during the campaign, then killed it during debate of the health care reform bill, and now he's in support of it again. And we're supposed to believe him.
"Let me be clear. The president supports re-importation. As he said, safe re-importation of drugs into this country. There's no reason why the Americans should pay a premium for pharmaceuticals that people in other countries pay less for," Axelrod said. "We will move forward on it."
As Drew Westen wrote this morning in the Huff Post, Obama's talk is cheap. He will always settle for the lowest common denominator. He will always avoid a conflict. He will never fight for anything. Yes, the White House is finally worried that they've turned off the millions of Democratic party loyalists who busted their butts to get this President elected. It's going to take far more than hollow words to win us back after so many broken promises.
