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another_liberal

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11. There is, of course, much truth in what you say . . .

Reply to Malteil (Reply #10)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 09:26 PM

Jan 2014

Yet I have to be pragmatic, could President Obama have been truly progressive? Would his own political party have followed him? Did he have to cut deals we can't imagine to just succeed in holding the reactionary forces to what small gains they did make?

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