*http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fbtshirtpoll

If I had to choose, the Joe Biden inspired "Health Reform is a BFD" would be my pick; it shows the eloquence of the administration without any "ums" and "uhs." But it appears that Obama has passed up the ultimate t-shirt choice, one that represents how the administration feels about the majority of Americans who don't want to see Obamacare become the law of the land: "Go for it"**

**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uOSBLi_6VQ&feature=player_embedded

Besides the overall boring design of the tees, two things stand out.

First, this is a visual summary of the Obama administration's muddiness on how capitalism works. Not only are none of the tees available to buy on this page, there's no link to where you can buy them. And why vote on the official tee? Why isn't the "official" t-shirt based on which ones sells the most? Purchasing muscle is how America usually decides on the best of the best: the Ford F-150, the iPhone, FOXNews.

Second, if you look in the lower right of the Obama "vote your tee" page, you'll see something that made me a little queasy: "Powered by Hope." I'm unfamiliar with this new, alternative fuel, so I did a search. The first hit for "Powered by Hope" was New Hope Academy which states, "We are true believers called to shine the light of Christ into the darkest corners of despair illuminating every heart and mind with a new vision -- a new hope" (http://whatpowersyou.org/). Apparently, they don't sell t-shirts or produce green energy.

"Hope" doesn't really power anything, of course, and hope is not what POR (Pelosi/Obama/Reid) use to get the job done on Capital Hill:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/18/cornhusker-kickback-gets-boot-health/

In other news, Obama said, "You have to love some of the pundits in Washington. Every day since I signed the reform law, there's another poll or headline that says 'Nation still divided on health reform,' 'Polls haven't changed yet.' Well, yeah. It just happened last week, it's only been a week!" (Washington Examiner, AFP 1 April 2010).

"Can you imagine if some of these reporters were working on a farm, you planted some seeds and they came out next day and they looked, -- 'nothing's happened, there is no crop, we are going to starve! Oh, no. It's a disaster. Before we find out if people like health care reform, we should wait to see what happens when we actually put it into place. Just a thought." (Julie Pace, Associated Press, 1 April 2010)

Obama acts like he just sprung his healthcare package on an unsuspecting Joe Six Pack ("it's only been a week"). But Obama has been talking about Obamacare 24/7/365 for over a year now. Obamacare has been touted by Obama as perhaps the greatest thing accomplished by man and/or woman, whether or not anyone could be sure what was in it. On 17 March, he told FOXNews' Bret Baier, "By the time the vote has taken place, not only I will know what's in it, you'll know what's in it because it's going to be posted and everybody's going to be able to evaluate it on the merits."

But Obama did know what was in (and out and in and out) of the bill every step of the way. And now that the people know what's in it and still don't like it, it's the pundits fault, or the Tea Party's fault, or the Republican's fault. Everyone is to blame but Obama and the Democrats that the people don't like Obamacare.

Thomas J. Clement

"Strange to say, only after men have been brought by life itself to the conviction that existing power is invincible, and in our time cannot be overthrown by force, have they come to understand that ridiculously self-evident truth that power and all the evil produced by it are but results of bad life in men, and that therefore, for the abolition of power and the evil it produces, good life on the part of men is necessary." (Leo Tolstoy, Appeal to Social Reformers, 1901)