WASHINGTON — For a moment, President Obama’s pledge to keep fighting for major health care legislation got personal on Thursday night as he told supporters at a fund-raiser about a former campaign worker in St. Louis without health insurance who had died of breast cancer.
“She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt,” he said, drawing nervous laughter from the otherwise hushed crowd. “How can I say to her, ‘You know what, we’re giving up’? How can I say to her family, ‘This is too hard’? How can Democrats on the Hill say, ‘This is politically too risky’? How can Republicans on the Hill say, ‘We’re better off just blocking anything from happening?’ ”
