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tk2kewl

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3. 5. Politics. (this is my greatest hope)

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 04:41 PM

Dec 2011

Obama will win re-election (Get serious. Who’s going to beat him….Romney?) and, as a lame duck president with nothing to lose, Obama will surprise and delight his earlier detractors by making the “Reinvigoration of American Labor” the centerpiece of his second term, proving that those inspirational promises he made on the campaign trail in 2008 weren’t just empty rhetoric.

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