Obama’s challenge to Congress: Stand and deliver.

R.J. Matson/Post-DispatchThe case was argued, heartstrings were tugged and the gauntlet was hurled in President Barack Obama’s remarkable 50-minute address to the nation and a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night.The president’s speech may not convince a narrowly divided Congress to pass a bill containing all of his proposals for reforming the American health care system. It may not reduce the poisonous fog of demagoguery that characterized the national debate this summer.But there is li

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