Paul Kirk to fill Kennedy's Senate seat

Since the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, sources have said that Paul Kirk is to take his place. Kirk has been a longtime friend and co worker of Kennedy since the 1980s. Although the facts have not been stated true, one of the Kennedy's family friends told CNN that they would prefer no one else than Kirk to take the place of Kennedy. He is to announce is acceptance for the Senate seat at 11 a.m. today, thursday September 24th, at the Statehouse in Boston. Lawmakers in Massachusets voted last Wednesday to have Kirk fill the senate seat for Kennedy. As of now the measure will not be in effect for anouther 90 days unless two thirds of the house senate vote to bypass the amount of days.

After reading the article about Kirk and about his backround, I think he would be a great senator. Knowing that he is a family friend of the Kennedy's and Edwards co worker for many years, you know that he is a dependable person. The death of Kennedy was trajic and the nation is sad to see a wonderful senator die, but i do believe that Kirk can bring to the table just as much as Kennedy did. THey were great friends and they might even be close to the same type of people.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/kennedy.replacement/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Obama pitches health care at college campus

Last Thursday, September 17th, Obama visited the University of Maryland where he talked to over 15,000 students about his health care plan. Obama stated that a reform will be difficult, but that the people need to continue to move forward. Throughout the previous weeks, Obama's plans have been shut down and criticized by even some democrats as well. He continued to promote to the students that Congress needs to create a new health care system and stop following false remarks. Such remarks include the new tax bill proposed by senator Max Baucus. Even democrats are arguing that the bill will hurt the middle-class workers by creating an increase in health insurance policies. Obama's main purpose was to reach out to the younger age adults and tell them that it's up to them to make this reform possible.

I personally believe that a new health care reform is in need. As of now i believe that the United States is going no where in completing our goal and instead going further away from it. Obama's outreach to the college students is a positive output for that age group. i believe that all students and young adults should be learning about this new proposed health care reform. We are technically the output of it since we are the future. We will all be paying for it in the near future and need to learn about it. If i didn't have this class and learn about the health care reform through this blog assingment, I would have never been interested in it at all.

Obama tries to take back health care debate

On Saturday September 12th, President Obama spoke at the Target Center in Minnesota to outreach about his health care debate. While he was away from the White House, many people protested in Washington, D.C. arguing that Obama was a liar. Obama urged the people through his speech on Saturday that his main obligation is to work with the republicans to find a proposal to our health care dillema. Obama also stated that he is always open to new ideas but is not going to waste his time with ideas that bring the proposal down.

Republicans tend to disagree with that statement though. Many issues have came up about Obama being paid lip service to agree with the Republican ideas and in the end, Obama ended up rejecting them. People argue that Obama is not trying to bring the two parties together. I believe that we need a new health care reform and that we need to focus the two parties together as one, taking issues and ideas from both sides. I think the freedom to choose between physician and patient is a key issue as well as the private company versus goverment spending. I feel as if Obama's plan has become a free ride for a majority of people and many people with jobs have been losing them in return.