For about a week now, there has been alot of protesting in the streets of Egypt. The people of Egypt are getting tired of their government and they want change. As a start, they would like a democracy as their government giving them more power and more freedom. Like Obama said in his speech made to the Muslim world in June 2009, governments should not be able to conquer the rights of the people. The people of Egypt feel that Hosni Mubarek, president of Egypt, is not meeting their expectation. Now the Egyptians believe that Obama should be helping to resolve this conflict. But instead the U.S. is no where to be found. Others believe that abandoning a key ally in desperate need would hurt the America's interests in the region.
This relates to class because in this situation Obama playing the role of the Chief Diplomat. As Cheif Diplomat, the president decides what American diplomats and ambassadors shall say to foreign governments.
Why isn't Obama backing up the Epygtians after preaching for democracy?
A federal judge in Florida rules the health reform law unconstitutional even though Barack Obama thinks different. It is believed that this case will be a contentious Supreme Court challenge over the legislation in the coming months. Florida along with 25 other states filed a lawsuit last spring against "Obamacare". Judge Roger Vinson, in a 78-page ruling, dismissed the key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which requires most Americans to purchase health care by 2014 or face penalties. Another federal judge in Virginia also believes that the health care law is unconstitutional, even though two other judges disagree. Such disagreements almost guarantee the Supreme Court will take up this issue. Under the law, the federal government is supposed to pay states for most of the cost of the Medicaid expansion which is believed to be an estimated 95 percent over the first five years.
This health care reform law relates to the power of the president. The president can present a law and it can still be denied.
Do you believe the health reform law is unconstitutional?
Does this issue need to be taken to the Supreme Court why or why not?
