В беседе с раввинами Обама скромно заметил:

"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said, according to Moline, quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided "who shall live and who shall die."

LIAR:

But the point is, is that government pays for everything, like, Medicare for all. That is a single-payer plan. I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter, because, frankly, we historically have had a employer-based system in this country, with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that, I believe, would be too disruptive.

PANTS ON FIRE:

I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal health care plan.

Чего я не пойму - ведь ему ничего не стоит сказать - да, говорил, было дело, а теперь понял, что это неверное решение. Если понял. Ему это даже ничего стоить не будет - мало ли он менял позиций. Однако же...

Впрочем, любопытны причины, по которым он не поддерживает:

we historically have had a employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive.  So what would end up happening would be, a lot of people who currently have employer-based health care would suddenly find themselves dropped, and they would have to go into an entirely new system that had not been fully set up yet.  And I would be concerned about the potential destructiveness of that kind of transition.

Демократы выкатили убойный аргумент:

The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military and intelligence analysts say. Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change.

Then, within a few short years, the world as it was ceased to be.
Make no mistake: this change did not come from any one nation alone.
The Cold War reached a conclusion because of the actions of many
nations over many years, and because the people of Russia and Eastern
Europe stood up and decided that its end would be peaceful.

Че-то я не припоминаю - когда это народ России "stood up" и "decided" мирно закончить Холодную Войну? Я помню два случая в новейшей истории, которые можно в российском контексте описать как "people of Russia /.../ stood up" - август 1991 и сентябрь-октябрь 1993. В обоих случаях ничего связанного с холодной войной на повестке дня не стояло. Что же имел в виду Телепромптер?