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mdbl

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10. It was a nice speech but

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 06:44 AM

Apr 2016

when she gave it she should have known it would fall on deaf ears. They don't care about the "right thing to do for America" they only care about themselves. What the audience did love is her incrementalism. Keep the status quo and nudge a little seems to be her way of doing things. It gives her audience the feeling they really won't have to deal with it. Kind of like, I might give to charity if I feel like it. Most of them probably felt their duty was finished just by listening to the entire speech.

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