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JDPriestly

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14. Obama was utterly naive about the Republicans when he was elected in 2008.

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 10:15 PM

Oct 2013

He is only now catching on.

I have hypothesized that his grandmother was possibly a Reagan Republican. Obama got some strange ideas about Republicans from somewhere. Maybe it was his private school and then the elite colleges and law school he attended. He just had mistaken expectations from the beginning.

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Was he? merrily Oct 2013 #20

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