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Now President Barack Obama is personally appealing to the democratic party to “put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment” and vote for his massive health care overhaul.

However, this idealistic approach is rather old news which mainly presents as another disingenuous plea to get behind a less than intuitive agenda merely because it is a hot-button issue or has a nice ring to it.

Obama’s hope and change rhetoric appears to be the only style of argument his obsessively pragmatic mind can create. He stands in front of the cameras with a line of white coats behind him as if he is the spokes person for a Pepto-Bismal commercial.

When in all actuality his new media marketing approach to the legislative process just makes it look as if he has wandered too far from the facility and is about to be ushered soothingly back to his padded cell.

Unfortunately the core issues are being ignored in the health care debate, as the spurs of foreign markets kick the flanks of U.S. inflation, instigating charging spikes in costs which, along with unemployment, are driving up health care premiums.

The insurance industry, which has enjoyed a largely free ride for many years, has been exempt from the antitrust laws which prohibit anti-competitive practices and behaviors, and thus are designed to prevent monopolies.

The legislation may include some provisions which remove this exemption, however, the many changes as of late make it impossible to conclusively determine this. Suffice it to say, the likelihood that such a provision is in the bill is another reason health insurance premiums have risen sharply in the last few months.

While the insurance market could use a healthy dose of true competition, implementing this sweeping change in an international recession (bordering on depression) is not at all wise.

As typically expected, fraud has since increased ten fold over the already burgeoning levels seen at the onset of the economic decline. And the further the economy recedes the less jobs are created in the small business sector which employs over half of the people in the nation, and which also is responsible for creating more than 65 percent of new jobs. Furthermore, Obama’s payroll tax breaks will not create any new jobs because the hiring of employees is contingent on need, not promises by the federal government.

The health care overhaul is being implemented solely as a crisis management opportunity that in a stable growth economy would otherwise never even be considered as an issue, let alone proposed as something which the nation, in the words of Obama, “can wait no longer” to act upon.

Obama not only intends to use mandates and penalties -- which will initially increase premiums -- to force compliance to a system he guaranteed would elicit voluntary cooperation, he is also adamantly forcing the bill on a reluctant congress. This is reminiscent of Al Gore’s push to enact the NAFTA and GAT legislation which has proven to, as Ross Perot warned, suck the wealth out of the nation.

Obama, with his many broken promises has proven to be no more than a smooth talking veracity bending priest of personality, and is likely finding it entirely impossible to garner true support from much of the government, and even less from the public.

Uncertainty and mistrust in the markets driven by excessive government intrusion is sending more investments overseas every day, as foreign capital further weakens the dollar. Moreover, the wars -- escalated under the Obama administration -- that are being waged in countries who’s populations are well aware that Obama promised to end them, is garnering support for the nation’s enemies, and the foreign occupations are becoming more and more unpopular, and thus are costing America much needed international support.

As well, his already languishing foreign relations image was likely irreparably tarnished by his bombastic display of disrespect at the Climate summit in Copenhagen where he completely ignored prudence in opt for an authoritative international position as he clearly expected to dictate unfair and sweeping cap and trade measures, to a host of foreign countries, based on unproven science and discredited figures.

Hillary Clinton, his choice for Secretary of State, has only further exacerbated the tense foreign relations with Iran and Israel, and exposed herself to be unfit for the appointment. As the administration's primary domestic aid She has made little, if any, progress in repairing the currently fractured image of diplomacy Obama backpedaled from.

Clinton was recently embarrassed by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who’s cool-headed and diplomatic approach to the Iran crisis exposed Hillary's lack of intuition and resultant authoritarian bent. Her position is likely nothing more than a mirror image of mandates expected by the U.N. Security Council -- that Obama chaired last year in flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution which clearly states that the president cannot simultaneously hold any other office.

Silva rebuffed Clinton -- and the U.S.’s appeal for new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program -- when during her recent visit to his country, Silva vowed not to “bow down” to gathering international pressure.

“It is not prudent to push Iran against a wall,” Silva told reporters just hours before meeting with Clinton. “The prudent thing is to establish negotiations.”

Clinton claims that if there is any possibility of negotiating with Iran, it would happen only after a new round of sanctions. Which appears to be more of a predisposition of her job as the "pitch-man" (woman) of the less than genuine Obama administration.

Her resolve began to crack as she angrily railed against Iran claiming “We see an Iran that runs to Brazil, an Iran that runs to Turkey, and an Iran that runs to China, telling different things to different people.”

As she acts as if no United States federal agency has ever done that.

Foreign Minister Celsio Amorim was not swayed by Clinton’s display of stubborn conviction, and countered her position by stating “We will not simply bow down to an evolving consensus if we do not agree.” Adding “We have to think by ourselves and with our values and principles.”

Now there's Something few politicians in America appear to even understand.

Regardless of how much Clinton may be intending to save face for the United States, her lack of authenticity is a domestic disease caused by excessive media influence and corporate pandering, and she likely does not even realize how transparent her disingenuous, and misguided, claims are to a foreign diplomat.

Truly, how can this nation prosper in an international theatre when its foreign envoys, ambassadors, and executive figures, posses such a paltry amount of insight and integrity?

The Obamasnare is reaching full speed as he claims “the debate is over. All that can be said about health care has been said.”

Then he once again ignores the issues at hand and lays claim that passage of this bill is an “important historic moment.”

Who could possibly trust this legislation when Obama so openly, and with little or no compunction, keeps changing his position with increasingly more sensational and bombastic claims?