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Skwmom

(12,685 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 02:35 AM Feb 2016

So you think Obama has been obstructed? You ain't seen nothin yet.

It will be obstruction on steroids if the Clintons are back in the Whitehouse.

The only things that would get quietly done are things for the 1%. Anything for the people - not a chance (though she will tearfully say how sorry she is as she is happily left off the hook).

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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. Frankly i think it's silly to argue re whether Sanders or Clinton would be 'obstructed' more..
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 02:41 AM
Feb 2016

.. I like how Bernie re-framed that tonight in Chicago .. i.e. all bets are off .. business as usual has
been suspended in time for now, this election year is confounding the pundits and the M$M, as social
media and Team Bernie keep intervening with irrefutable facts and compelling cases for progressive
change.

mikehiggins

(5,614 posts)
6. Actually, staying power is what undid President Obama. His campaign put together an
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 04:12 AM
Feb 2016

amazing army of supporters but he torpedoed himself by basically sending them home instead of keeping them in the field and fighting to displace the GOPukes and TeaParty people from their hold on Congress.

I remember a lot of posters even here reposting that idea of him telling us that "I got this."

He tried to be a statesman and, well, you can see how that worked out. All the good that he accomplished was only a fraction of what he could have achieved if the GOPukes hadn't determined on Day One to make him a one term president.

Sanders won't make that mistake. His slogan would be "WE got this."

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Call out the instigators
because there's something in the air.
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolutions here.

And you know its right...

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
10. heck, he set up a "veal pen" to make sure that it looked like the WH was listening
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 06:47 PM
Feb 2016

to what 70-90% of the people needed, while just delaying them until it came time for the next wave of "we need your votes, volunteers, and envelopes"

Sanders is running because Obama gave away the store and then fingerwagged the voters for expecting too much--"he doesn't have a magic wand" said the same guys who said "he'll have a magic wand and make all your dreams come true" a year before

Attorney in Texas

(3,373 posts)
9. They won't obstruct Hillary on our next war in the Middle East, wrist slaps for corporate misconduct
Fri Feb 26, 2016, 01:40 PM
Feb 2016

welfare "reform," etc.

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