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Laura PourMeADrink

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40. I agree. And, to me, everyone who says he has no concrete plans, I say -- so what?

Mon Sep 14, 2015, 11:42 PM

Sep 2015

the only thing concrete plans are good for are to prove you have done your homework. No one in the world reads position papers or stays awake while you "blah, blah, blah." They are of zero use after that - with all the acrimony and special interests out there.

I happen to think someone running for president should simply say what they care about and show that they care SO much that people believe they will follow that at every turn.

Given the fact no one running knows what the conditions and opposition will be like when they get in - it makes more sense to exude as much confidence as you can display and utter over and over again that you will do everything in your power, at every turn, to say, "Help the poor" (on our side of course).

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