The Art of Compromise: How Democrats Run from their Ideas.

With the truly ugly sight of the Democrats botching health care reform and sealing the failure of President Obama's biggest campaign pledge, have you ever wondered how things got so bad? Do you long for a time when elected Democratic officials played their hand with conviction?

This PBS special on Don't Ask Don't Tell featured an interesting section on the differences between the politicians of yesterday and the spineless compromisers of today. And I am not talking about the faithfully obstinate bullheaded party of failure, the Republicans. This clip reveals how weak Obama is in the face of strong opposition, repeating the same big mistake Clinton made.