{"id":218818,"date":"2010-01-20T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/obama-calls-healthcare-reform-a-triumph-for-decency\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T03:01:54","slug":"obama-calls-healthcare-reform-a-triumph-for-%e2%80%98decency%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218818","title":{"rendered":"Obama Calls Healthcare Reform A Triumph For \u2018decency\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Barack+Obama_1961_19563952_0_0_7051035_300.jpg\" alt=\"Obama calls healthcare reform a triumph for 'decency'\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">On Sunday, President Obama spoke about healthcare reform from the church pulpit of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington D.C., calling the impending bill a victory for &quot;decency.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This will be a victory not for Democrats,&quot; Obama said. &quot;It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will be a victory for the United States of America.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The president also acknowledged his sense of frustration with the slow pace of change seen in his first year in office. <\/p>\n<p>Looking back, Obama recalled his hope that &quot;life would be better from the moment I swore that oath,&quot; he said, quoted by <em>CNN.com<\/em>. &quot;We know the promise of that moment has not been fully filled.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats working with the president have agreed to exempt union workers from the 40 percent &quot;Cadillac&quot; tax on expensive insurance plans that will help pay for healthcare reform, <em>Fox News<\/em> reports. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the &quot;special deal&quot; exemption will encourage people to join unions and is unfair to 92 percent of the private sector workforce. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19563952-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19563952\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, President Obama spoke about healthcare reform from the church pulpit of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church in Washington D.C., calling the impending bill a victory for &quot;decency.&quot; &quot;This will be a victory not for Democrats,&quot; Obama said. &quot;It will be a victory for dignity and decency, and for our common humanity. It will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}