Obama's publicized three principles of the Health Care Reform are too vague and almost any final compromise, including the absence of a serious public option, can be sold to the public by politicians, masters of manipulation, as satisfying these three principles. As a result I believe that millions of Obama's supporters, the core of his "movement", are not on-board any more because they are not ready to rubber-stamp his vague three-principles initiative. Too bad, the historic opportunity for a real reform may be slipping out of our reach.

One problem with Obama's split at the middle approach in this case is that he did not make sure that the Single Payer and other progressive options are on the table, so split at the middle will be skewed to the right and there is no real reform there.

This all could be changed overnight and the people would get energized if he realizes that there is a sleeping giant of a support for a Single Payer out there and if he declares that a real public option is non-negotiable, but the clock is ticking and it seems this will not happen unless we do something about it...