"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I guess the point here is that if the President is going to "stand on principle", it's a good idea to let the American people (and not just radio talk and Fox News listeners) know what his objections to SCHIP are. My wife, who's no liberal by any stretch of the imagination, kind of likes that idea that my 21 year old college student step-son can stay on her health insurance because of SCHIP. Now that may be wrong, it may even be "socialist", but the time to have opposed that would have been when the bloody program was first started, not after you tacitly agreed with the concept in its original incarnation. The GOP is gonna take it on the chin over this one, if they keep on acting like the American people are too stupid to understand a reasonable explanation of what's wrong with SCHIP.