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In reply to the discussion: Message to the Left-Wing [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)or the inherent problems that money can buy for a fair price. We've allowed commerce, politics and religion to fuse together into this mess we have now called Disaster Capitalism. You want people to vote in mass, you have to give them something to hope for.
Obama gave a lot of people hope, that he would do a million different things. Thankfully he has delivered in large part on pushing progress forward despite having the GOP try and thwart his every move.
You need to find someone that can be pragmatic and charismatic and always aware of their environment at all times. That is a hard one to come up with and we will regret it when the POTUS is no longer running the country.
Hopefully someone will come along and have his drive and passion.
Not going to happen in Texas, we have a Rush clone as Lt. governor.