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sheshe2

(87,991 posts)
11. *mic drop* is right.
Mon May 25, 2015, 08:46 PM
May 2015
If it is true that Obama has moved the Overton Window to the left . . .

. . . then that window will allow ALL Democratic candidates to run on these issues next year.
Not just those candidates who want to be the next President will be able to run on those issues.

But, also ALL of those candidates who want to be elected to Congress for the first time.


Fact.
They cannot run from him as they have in the past. For the first time in a very long time the Democrats need a united front. Forget the divisiveness here, this is not RL. Yet the Ds need to make a stand here.

The next Democratic Presidential candidate for the Democrats must have long coattails.
They must be able to pull in new Democrats in to both Houses of Congress, without losing any of the Democrats that are already serving in Congress.
That is a tall order, but that is precisely what we need next year.

I think President Obama will be able to help us do just that . . . by waiting for our party's process of nominating the next Presidential nominee to be finished before getting involved in stumping for our candidate.


If congress does not change, then nothing will change no matter which Dem takes the White House. I fully expect the President to be out stumping with the extraordinary power of his voice and his passion to take this country forward.

We do need to clean out the shit in the stables that have festered for so long. They have been pustulous boils on the ass of this country for far to long. They need to be lanced with our vote.

The Republicans are a dying breed, old white men that only wish to take us back a hundred years or so can continue in their superiority. They don't even have a clue they are dying because they wear blinders. Yet they are in their death throes. Let's help them along.

They are terrified, because they know America will no longer be a white America, we will be the United States of America in every shape and color.

So in the end~

But, we are going to have to help him do it.
We are going to have to nominate a Presidential candidate who is not ashamed to be seen with President Obama.
And we are going to have to build the biggest GOTV drive in our party's recent history.


Obama never said I am the change. He said.


Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.


Thank you so much Major Hogwash!


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