Perhaps the most talked about segment from today’s health care summit is when Arizona Sen. John McCain ripped into President Barack Obama on how the Democrats handled health care reform in Congress — bringing a response from Obama:
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On one hand, McCain is correct in some of his criticism about the Democrats’ lets-make-a-deal behavior. On the other, McCain continues to give the impression that he’s out for revenge for having lost in 2008 and his pronouncements have become more partisan and lockstep than ever as he faces a primary challenge from a conservative back home. He barely resembles the John McCain many of us (I voted for him in the California Republican primary) supported in 2000.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.