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calimary

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14. Yeah, well, I don't want to see anybody from our side buying into the crap the other side is

Reply to otohara (Reply #11)

Sun May 18, 2014, 05:32 PM

May 2014

spewing. DON'T START by using their arguments - or react to them or START OUT by using their wordings and framings. Don't even go there! All you do is feed into what they're trying to stir up, and give it validation!!! We're supposed to shoot that shit DOWN, not whine and clutch our pearls along with it!!! SHEESH, Deval! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN AT IT??? You don't get this??????? I had a really high regard for him until this. He should know better!!!! Democratic naiveté strikes again.

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Mass. Gov Deval Patrick: ‘I Worry a Little Bit’ About Hillary Clinton [View all] Omaha Steve May 2014 OP

Come up with someone better and I'll consider it The Second Stone May 2014 #1

Eliz Warren wordpix May 2014 #25

Convince Sen Warren to run and The Second Stone May 2014 #27

Working on it. /nt Ash_F May 2014 #29

How did her "inevitabilty" do in 2008? Oh yes, we nominated Obama. Good try. McCamy Taylor May 2014 #2

She is strong on the ACA and on women's rights, but very weak on managing the economy JDPriestly May 2014 #9

Sorry to hear you have relatives like that davidpdx May 2014 #20

I'm sorry I have a relative like that too, but she is very generous and good in other ways. JDPriestly May 2014 #28

I guess it's a sure thing that we're getting super-majorities in Congress this year..... groundloop May 2014 #3

+1 as well as erronis May 2014 #12

I'm in an absolutely secure congressional district in California. There isn't much I can do for JDPriestly May 2014 #13

Singing to the choir in the real world. Media wants us to forget about that... n/t freshwest May 2014 #17

It wasn't just her "inevidability" in '08... HooptieWagon May 2014 #4

I still have yet to see a book come out on that davidpdx May 2014 #21

Neither HRC nor Obama were my first choice. HooptieWagon May 2014 #24

I think that to blame the "inevitability" meme on Hillary is not fair. Beacool May 2014 #5

I always thought their love of politics was the thing keeping this marriage from collapsing. Nedsdag May 2014 #6

They came of age in the 60s. Beacool May 2014 #8

It is true that the Clintons care about health care, education, women and children's rights. JDPriestly May 2014 #16

He isn't wrong. Arkana May 2014 #7

That's a misleading title. He worries about the "inevitability thing," not HRC herself. n/t pnwmom May 2014 #10

Really. Cha May 2014 #19

We All Worry otohara May 2014 #11

Yeah, well, I don't want to see anybody from our side buying into the crap the other side is calimary May 2014 #14

I agree with him Marrah_G May 2014 #15

If she becomes the nominee it's because people want it to be so. Beacool May 2014 #23

It seems some on here are going to make a Republican the "inevitable" President. Trust Buster May 2014 #18

I think Patrick hit the nail on the head davidpdx May 2014 #22

I don't worry. The governor needs to get over it. hrmjustin May 2014 #26