Former Conservative PM Praises Obama on Health Care

To a gathering 0f 1500 supporters, former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney praised and defended U.S. President Barack Obama on the issue of health care reform.

"President Obama is fighting for a form of universal health care and is encountering ferocious resistance," said Mulroney. "The attacks on President Obama are often bitter and mean-spirited and his approval ratings, his popularity, are sinking like a stone. Still, he fights on. . . .

But, insisted Mulroney, "Political capital is acquired to be spent in great causes for one’s nation."

"Fifty years from today, Americans will revere the name Obama. Because like his Canadian predecessors, he chose the tough responsibilities of national political leadership over the meaningless nostrums of sterile partisanship that we see too much of in Canada and around the world today."

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