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hfojvt

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107. just to be clear

Reply to cherokeeprogressive (Reply #24)

Mon Feb 8, 2016, 01:10 PM

Feb 2016

you meant this post http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1166705

and NOT the OP you are replying to.

Winning the election is kind of important though. It's rather naive to think the S-word and by implication the C-word are not going to be played.

That's enough to stop me from supporting Bernie. I do NOT think my party can afford to tie itself to the S-word.

It does though also remind me of what the Hillary camp did in 2008. Circulated a bunch of rightwing attacks at Obama - as a reason to support Clinton. Truly, I was afraid that the racism of this country would hurt us down-ticket in 2008. And I was wrong about that. In reality, it was my guy Edwards who would have imploded in the general, having been exposed as a schmuck.

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