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democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 05:41 PM Sep 2016

"I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me"

President Obama said that in his speech today, and I just realized that she said the exact same thing in her concession speech 8 years ago. Kind of cool how things come full circle. Do you think it was a deliberate reprisal of the line or just a coincidence?

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"I need you to work as hard for Hillary as you did for me" (Original Post) democrattotheend Sep 2016 OP
He was great! mcar Sep 2016 #1
Indeed democrattotheend Sep 2016 #2
It's politics. Of course it was deliberate (nt) bigwillq Sep 2016 #3

democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)
2. Indeed
Tue Sep 13, 2016, 06:28 PM
Sep 2016

I think my favorite was the grading on a curve line. I also loved the one about at least Trump didn't go for a 10-foot statue. So glad to see him out there, and the timing could not have been better.

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