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ginnyinWI

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4. Seems to me that most if not all Dems are called "weak" by the right.

Reply to freshwest (Original post)

Tue May 26, 2015, 07:59 PM

May 2015

And I think I know why: Dem presidents tend to just do their jobs, not try to turn themselves into demi-gods a la Reagan or Dubya and create a fiction about who they are and what they can do. Dems just do their damn jobs and let it speak for them.

The other thing is war: if you don't blindly launch the country into a bloody endless war at the slightest whim, you are seen by them as weak.

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Misinterpreting a Man’s Strength is Our Weakness, Not His [View all] freshwest May 2015 OP

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K & R Well put! n/t justhanginon May 2015 #2

Excellent. brer cat May 2015 #3

Seems to me that most if not all Dems are called "weak" by the right. ginnyinWI May 2015 #4

Brilliant Op. sheshe2 May 2015 #5

Thank you for this wonderful essay from Joan Ruiz, freshwest! Cha May 2015 #6