I would substitute dither for "humengous blundered" financial reform,  diter onthe oraliy of torture but ending torture in the US Empire for the firt time ever..

and regarding Health care.. well, here I disagree. Obama has been more than impressive, he has been brilliant on Health Care. The agreement with pharma, the basic structure of the law, the approach to the problem, the approach to congress. The US will have a universal health care system...and this will make/fix the rest (as Krugman puts it).. even pharma.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude