The article that I read can be found at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/healthcare/la-na-obama-60minutes14-2009sep14,0,7413399.story
This article describes the issues that have come up concerning the contriversial debate of healthcare reform. In particular it addresses the heated and not always productive debates that have occured.
I think that there are a couple of points from Aristotle's "Poetics" that relate to this article and why it made an impression on me. First is the idea that Aristotle brings up about Recognition (pg. 4 "Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge..."). In this article, Senator Wilson made a heated comment but then later realized what he did was not called for. I think that in making that heated comment and being forced to face his own immaturity, Senator Wilson was brought to recognize that his actions were innappropriate.
I think that the event that this article talks about could also be seen as a Scene of Suffering as Aristotle talks about. At the apex of this event when the Senator Shouts at the president, it is obvious that both parties are frusterated that such a serious debate is getting nowhere.
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