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2016 Postmortem

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11. Obama told us 'America is Greater Than It's Ever Been!'
Thu Dec 8, 2016, 06:53 AM
Dec 2016

I was ready to throw my shoe at the TV when I heard that "America is Greater Than It's Ever Been" line from the convention.

Like poking a stick in the eye to young people drowning in student loan debt. A slap in the face to everyone who had lost their homes to foreclosure fraud by the big banks while Obama stood by and watched. A smug putdown to everyone in economic despair. A tone deaf statement to Rust Belt families living among empty factories, where they can remember earning a living wage.

Democrats were so focused on how awful Trump was, they felt they had to say the opposite of anything Trump said. They let Trump set the agenda, in a negative way. I just wonder how they could not have thought this through.

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