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amandabeech

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212. It seems to me that he came into office thinking that what everyone wanted was healthcare,

Sun Dec 14, 2014, 09:57 PM

Dec 2014

and didn't understand that the sands made a major shift under him and made jobs much more important to most people than healthcare.

After the market crash, he refused to listen to a wide variety of voices and just stuck with the old Clinton crowd, maybe because they thought that they could fix the economy quickly and Obama could move to the only thing he seems to have cared about, healthcare.

I dislike Rahm, but Rahm is rumored to have told Obama to do a few easy things on healthcare at first, but concentrate on jobs and the economy. Do the rest of healthcare after the jobs come back.

I knew that we were in trouble when he didn't start playing down the Lincoln thing, and start talking a little more about FDR.

You know, I've never felt like I had a fix on Obama's personality. And that has always given me a very uncomfortable feeling.

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