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Doctor_J

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22. He has also bashed FDR

Reply to merrily (Reply #20)

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 10:32 AM

Oct 2013

like I said, I voted for him enthusiastically in 2008, by default in 2012. I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt and call him naive. More likely he's just another tool of the owning class. He has not accomplished a single progressive initiative in 5 years. That can't be entirely due to incompetence.

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