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FarLeftFist

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Sat May 5, 2012, 10:07 PM May 2012

Notice something unusual about Obama's list of accomplishments? [View all]

From Daily Kos blogger Seneca Doane

When you watch the 7-1/4 minute "Forward" video spelling out the themes of the Obama campaign, which I've embedded below, it's easy to overlook something very significant. It comes through most clearly starting at about the 5:00 mark.

The Obama campaign ticks off a list of accomplishments that they presumably think is aimed straight for the heart, mind, and gut of the electorate. Each one rotates up on a panel, one of them every 2.5 seconds. 32 of them over 80 seconds. Here's the entire list:

-SNIP-

That's what they want people to think about. That's where they think we are as an electorate.
Do you notice something interesting about the list?

It is overwhelmingly a list of progressive accomplishments!

Where they think that voters are ... is where we here are!

Read the rest: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/30/1087710/-Notice-something-unusual-about-Obama-s-accomplishments-

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