I was watching President Obama's health care speech last night with a friend of mine who's a former Republican. He had voted for Bush in the last two elections, but was disheartened with the direction in which his party was headed and came to support then-Senator Obama in the primary and general elections. Last night I looked over to him towards the end of Obama's 45 minute address to ask him what he thought. He smiled and said "This is why we elected him. Because when all the Democrats want to run for cover, he actually stands up and says it like it is.