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gkhouston

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10. Not likely, IMO, partly because the President won't be trying to compete with him.

Reply to deaniac21 (Reply #9)

Thu Sep 6, 2012, 06:10 PM

Sep 2012

More likely, he'll begin by acknowledging all the amazing speeches that have happened this week and cite them as an example of Democrats working together. We'll probably end up with half of DU saying they liked Clinton's speech better and half saying they liked Obama's better, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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