John Carney, former Lieutenant Governor, is campaigning for the Democratic spot on the ticket for U.S. Congress.

In a recent series of town halls, he has brought up questions from the audience on health care… He has found that the topic is contentious, although not in the way you would imagine after seeing crazy Eileen go after Mike Castle…

Instead his audiences are informed and angry that the public option is having such a difficult time in the Senate and House Bills as they come out of committee.. It just so happens that one of our own Senators sits on one of those committees, and after sitting in several of those town halls on health care, it would not be farfetched to say, that candidate John Carney was upstaged by someone who wasn’t there… Tom Carper..

The point blank question directed at Carney several times, was this one: Are you going to be another Tom Carper! Now I did not realise Tom Carper was disliked so much. But the meeting erupted into a discussion of Tom Carper. Poor John Carney was left to say “i can’t speak for Tom Carper. I can only speak for John Carney.”

Ironically, the audience didn’t care about John Carney. However, they were hot on Tom Carper. though. And they were quite wise.

The consensus in that room was that Tom Carper was scuttling the public option at the behest of Astra Zenica… Tom’s co-op’s plan is not a public option; but can give him cover to say he supported some type of public option when and if he goes up for another round…

Carper had no friends. He was not liked by anyone in the room. Carney was probably the only one trying to deflect the animosity by defending Tom Carper briefly at first… but being a political animal, he too relented and joined the crowd expressing disappointment over the fact that the public option would not get Tom Carper’s full fledged support..

It is rare when the invited guest speaker gets upstaged at his own engagement, by someone who wasn’t even present. But that is what happened when questions were opened about health care.

It appears that Americans will insist that the public option be an item in the Health Care Bill. By “must be”, it is the litmus test over whether change will come to the health care industry, or whether things will remain the same….

John Carney was put on the spot.

“I came here to join your campaign and support you. But if you’re not going to take the opposite tack from Tom Carper and not going to support the public option, then I simply can’t vote for you…

America knows their salvation lies in getting some form of public option legislated this year. It would be safe to say, that after this past week of town meetings, U.S Congressional Candidate John Carney, now knows it too….

Carney’s campaign will center around increasing the number of jobs. His theme will be simple: we need more jobs…period. He quoted Roosevelt in saying the best social program, is a job… Passing the public option will do just that… It will increase jobs and get Americans back to work faster than another mega bailout….

Listen for John Carney to say “we need more jobs… The public option is a tool to get more people working. I support it.”