This week’s column

By Jennifer J. Foster

My most recent column is now available on the web. Check it out:

Finally, Obama shows the way on health care

I reviewed President Obama’s speech on health care in light of last week’s column, in which I offered the president some advice—in convenient alphabetical order, no less—about what to say to the country about health care and how to proceed from rhetoric to reality.

Funny things, rhetoric and reality. One feeds the other. Come to think of it, there’s a little something in the new column about that.

Along those lines, I referenced “A More Perfect Union,“ then-Candidate Obama’s speech on race relations he delivered in March 2008. It was historic then, but it has already—and rightly—found its way into the annals of American oratorical lore. You can read it here. Better yet, watch it here.

Regarding “The Great Communicator,“ check out this piece by Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, written shortly after the former president’s death in 2004 at the age of 93.

And if you missed President Obama’s health care speech altogether, catch up by reading it here or watching it here.

This is a critical moment on this critical issue. Check out the speech and where we’re going with these plans.

You owe it to your country to think for yourself; don’t rely on an interest group or your political pals do it for you.