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LaydeeBug

(10,291 posts)
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:14 PM Jul 2016

It's just that this feel more like Gore/Bush 2000 than it does Obama/McCain 2008

and I fear that trying to be a third Obama term when we need to be fighters might be a mistake.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love a third Obama term, but we have to get to the Oval first.

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It's just that this feel more like Gore/Bush 2000 than it does Obama/McCain 2008 (Original Post) LaydeeBug Jul 2016 OP
People think things suck right now.... vi5 Jul 2016 #1
 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
1. People think things suck right now....
Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:28 PM
Jul 2016

For a lot of reasons and in a lot of ways. And justified or not, they take things out on Government and on "the establishment". That's what was going on in 2000 too.

And like then, our party decided that the best course of action was to nominate someone who embodies and personifies to many people, both Government itself and establishment politics.

Many in our party advised against that, and they did not win the primary. Fair enough, but now the onus is the people whose vision for this election and our country won out. And it is explicitly on the people who said things such as "Hillary will mop the floor with Trump!", "Hillary doesn't need the Bernie supporters to kick Trump's ass!" or "Hillary knows how to win a fight" or any such variation on any of those phrases. But unfortunately they already seem to be passing the buck and making excuses.

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