THE SPIRIT SUSTAINING HEALTH CARE REFORM
 

As my television showed a drove of national political candidates belittling each other, proclaiming their consultant-generated views on what Americans want and "need," calling for changes in  national governance, and voicing harsh criticism (coupled with parroting of their contributors' demands for destruction of President Obama's championed Affordable Care Act),  I thought of a different era in which a successful American political leadership understood that all individuals are people, created in a holy image, not subservient chattels whose major purpose in life is to make their owners rich. 

Reflect on these words (italics - below) from a humble, brave, ethical, heroic American. Take a moment and consider the difference between the spirit conveyed in these words and that  which come to us from the recent presidential primary debates, uttered in a small mean way.  The American president understood and transmitted the true meaning of freedom and died defending it, as did Rev. King whose memory Americans celebrated yesterday.  

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"And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God."

[The Emancipation Proclamation

January 1, 1863

A Transcription
By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred....]