I've been trying to figure out how it happened - what put America on its
path to the giant health care reform bill.
Barack Obama gave a hint Saturday afternoon, in a
private speech to House Democrats...
Sometimes I think about how I got involved in politics. I didn't think
of
myself as a potential politician when I got out of college. I went to
work
in neighborhoods, working with Catholic churches in poor neighborhoods in
Chicago, trying to figure out how people could get a little bit of help.
And I was skeptical about politics and politicians, just like a lot of
Americans are skeptical about politics and politicians are right now.
Because my working assumption was when push comes to shove, all too often
folks in elected office, they're looking for themselves and not looking
out for the folks who put them there; that there are too many compromises;
that the special interests have too much power; they just got too much
clout; there's too much big money washing around.
And I decided finally to get involved because I realized if I wasn't
willing to step up and be true to the things I believe in, then the system
wouldn't change.