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Taking back ‘Obamacare’

Can the president make an insult into a selling point?

Can the Obama team turn the dirty word “Obamacare” into a positive? History suggests that political shorthands like these can sometimes be rehabilitated — but that it’s not always easy.

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The model for Obamacare is Massachusetts and we are doing quite well, thank you. Some of the latest facts and figures are downright euphoric! It's a model that will be changed and modified to fit different situations, like the small business problem, but it will be done and we will all be better off for it.

No matter how you bill it or spin it, excrement is still excrement, and it will never smell like roses