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BumRushDaShow

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25. I think so too but

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Reply #21)

Mon Jan 8, 2018, 06:46 PM

Jan 2018

remember how he was insulted to no end, including here on DU, for being "too professorial" and that was the purported reason why he "couldn't speak to or relate to the white working class". And then he was told that he should "speak like Biden".

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