Public Option Dead, Obama Administration A Failure?

The AP is reporting that the Obama Administration has decided today to scrap the Public Option in health care reform.

Government provided health care was central to his candidacy.? One has to now wonder if the administration is in someway ultimately considered a failure if the central policy of his platform has crumbled before our eyes.

If Obama fails in this key component of his platform would you consider his administration a failure?

-nick