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In reply to the discussion: "Obama and the End of Greatness" [View all]Andy823
(11,495 posts)53. Good question
I think a lot of the president bashers here would be do the same kind of bashing no matter what democrat was in the WH. The fail to understand that without a congress to back the president, not much is going to get done, and when the main goal of the republican is to "STOP" any kind of progress, as they have done with president Obama, we will have the same problems with getting things done.
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Oops, this is the clip I meant to post, but they're both good so I'll leave that earlier one.
Electric Monk
Oct 2014
#5
The minute a President actually seems to be bringing change, Americans slam the brakes
Algernon Moncrieff
Oct 2014
#9
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask "How can I make a buck off it?" nt
bemildred
Oct 2014
#39
Correction: it's not a short story, and it's written by (not about) a Clinton staffer.
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#22
Story means fiction. This is a tendentious essay, written by an interested party. nt
ucrdem
Oct 2014
#25
This Esquire article does a great job describing how bollixed up we are
BeyondGeography
Oct 2014
#29