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In reply to the discussion: Who would be your combination for an ideal person for President? [View all]Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)21. well that's depressing
Don't get me wrong - I support his reelection 10000000% - especially in light of the alternative. And I will do all can to insure he does win reelection. There is NO alternative. But if this is as good as it gets - moderately socially liberal - with economics slightly to the right of old style traditional Republicans and a foreign policy only slightly moderated from the second term (not the first term when the necons dominated) of the Bush Jr. Administration - well, if this is as good as it gets - I am glad I'm growing older and don't have that many more decades in this world.
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Who would be your combination for an ideal person for President? [View all]
former-republican
Aug 2012
OP
Reaganism truly does triumph when we are at the point where a number of self-identified liberals
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2012
#32
General Butler, Paul Krugman, Thomas Jefferson, Eugene V. Debs., and Louis D. Brandeis. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2012
#16
I think she could debate each of the canddiates ... and make them answer questions they
JoePhilly
Aug 2012
#42