Abracadabra Obama

I remember going through a phase where I wanted to learn how to do card tricks to impress my friends and members of the fairer sex.  I read several books on the subject and the number one thing to learn is to get the observer's eyes off the deck of cards.  Create a distraction.  In fact, it's in all good illusion handbooks.  Misdirection, getting the audience to look in one place so they don't notice what is going on in another is the key to being a good magician. As the Obama administration announces its turn to its key campaign issue of healthcare, I cannot help but think back to those books and the key tenent of illusion - creating a distraction so that no one notices what's really going on.  Now, granted, pulling it on a national level in front of an unwitting