Ironically, the president's health-reform law enables and accelerates this move through the creation of independent health insurance exchanges, which allow for everyone to choose the best coverage solution for his individual needs.
So how can the GOP or any libertarian be opposed to individual liberty and this aspect of Obama's health-care reform plan? As we have seen in Washington these days, real solutions are more often than not obfuscated in the name of personal gain and partisan politics.
Joe McKinley, Warrington, jmckinley21@comcast.net
A post-racial America we're not
Terry Smith, a professor at DePaul College of Law, is critical of President Obama and the Democratic Party, among others, for their "accommodation" of Newt Gingrich's and the other Republicans' demeaning, coded racist comments ("Abetting inequality in post-racial U.S.," Feb. 2).
Smith is not alone in understanding how these insidious attacks work, and he's surely right in noting that Obama is "disarmed" because responding can only make his reelection less probable. But let us be realistic and cast aside notions like "post-racialism" as long as the conservative right in this country acts and talks as it does. The dirty little secret is that many fearful Americans just aren't anywhere near this yet. But that is no reason to stop good people from making every effort to realize that dream.
I suspect Obama and his party know better than to play into these conservative Republican hands.
Stan Wexler, Lafayette Hill
NLRB is a tool of the unions
If President Obama is truly committed to removing hurdles to job creation, perhaps he should start with the hurdles that his own administration has created.
