The writing of the Health Care bill has become a seamy process. Candidate Obama  promised repeatedly that all important legislation would be debated publiclly on C-Span, promised that bills would be posted online for no less than 72 hours, and assured voters that government would be transparent in all matters involving hope and change.

Sadly, these heavily chronicled campaign promises have fallen stillborn, morphing into a pathetic series of closed-room discussions among Democratic leaders. Republican-proposed amendments to allow public viewing of the proposed heath care bills were voted down on a strict party vote.

The enlightened era of post-partisan governing has quickly devolved into, dare I say, Chicago-style politics where backdoors are the only doors and the public is left out of the loop.  

In fact, by any measure, the country has fomented into a more partisan, frustrated, divided nation that any in recent memory.

There is no transparency. You cannot have transparency where this is no trust.

For example, when Obama spoke before the Joint Chiefs of Staff he talked about what was and was not in the health care bill. Everyone except the media scratched their heads, because there is NO health care bill; it is still being hammered out in various committees. So when Obama made definite, assertive statements, his comments rang shallow and false with many people since he was not, in fact, referring to an actual bill. He was not even talking about what he’d like to see in the final bill.

At the time of that speech no less than three bills, all quite different, were in the works, and yet Obama attempted to present to the American people a fiction, namely, that some magical “Obama bill” was waiting in the wings for passage. No such bill existed.

Pundits can argue whether it was poor judgement for Obama to leave the writing of the bill to everyone other than his own team, but that is old news. He has lost the trust of Americans who, in spite of every attempt to block access to the language,  have managed to find the bills, examine them, and dismiss them as extraordinary power grabs with giant tax increases.

Worse still is Obama’s predilection for demonizing anyone who stands in his way. Remember the early comments about the Tea Party attendees? Nancy Pelosi referred to swastikas and generally denigrated the many fearful voters who had never, ever been involved in politics before, suddenly flooding town hall meetings and participating in all manner of rallies. It turned out that the “swastikas” she referred to was traced back to a single picket sign in which a swastika had a circle around it and a line through it. As for the purported astro-turf, namely the notions that these frightened, every-day Americans were somehow being orchastrated by some monied Republican elite, that argument fell quickly as well, and of course had no merit to begin with.

Throughout Obama’s full court press to pass health care reform he has at one time or another demonized the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, doctors… it just doesn’t end. He needs an enemy. It appears he must have an enemy in his post-partisan attempt to pass his flagship agenda. And the more the polls show America does not want what he is selling, the more he resorts to elaborate, albeit shallow tactics, such as inviting doctors to the White House and supplying them with white doctor jackets, courtesy of the Obama propaganda machine.

Poll after poll shows support for government-run health care is simply not what Americans want. Obama’s insistence and petulance has demonstrated, according to other polls, that Obama is not what Americans want, either.

Obama campaigned as a moderate, and yet from health care to an army of Czars, from his takeover of GM to his international apology tour, Obama has proven to be decidedly left of center. He is behaving as someone who has a genuine, deep opposition for this great country.

With the 2010 midterm elections looming, the clock ticking, America is watching their president pick fights with FOX news, waffle on whether or not to send more troops to Afganistan, but on health care he remains resolute, resolutely against the wishes of the majority of voters.

That, alone, should speak volumes.