I'm an unabashed liberal, not a libertarian or moderate Democrat or moderate conservative or centrist. I'll very likely vote for Obama. I just can't get around the fact that Obama's health care plan is unworkable. If he has thought at all about the plan, he must realize that, and yet still he proposes it. That tells me that he chose his unworkable plan, over a workable one like those proposed by Clinton and Edwards, because what he's proposing will be more popular (since it lacks the unpopular mandatory coverage of the Clinton and Edwards plan). I suspect that if he wins and implements a health care plan, it'll either look a whole lot more like what McCain is proposing (nothing close to universal coverage), or a whole lot more like what Clinton and Edwards proposed (mandatory coverage). There's no telling which of those two directions he'll choose, but what I'm saying is that his current proposal just won't work -- it logically can't work. You can't have voluntary, affordable coverage, with no denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions, unless it's mandatory. Give the people the option to opt out of coverage until they need it, and then opt in without penalty, and that's just what they'll do, and that will drive the prices up to astronomical levels. So, to sell something unworkable for the sake of popularity is a lie, and he deserves to be called on it.