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JustAnotherGen

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33. You nailed it

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 05:29 AM

Feb 2016

Excellence is meh -

Minimum is great.

I know he is just hated here - but it's almost as if in 2007 Obama said - "how can I out do Harold Ford?" I remember my father saying - "I though it would be Harold Ford". That will probably enrage some people at DU - and that's okay. He also said - "This kid would have been friends with my father." He was talking about Obama.

They don't understand how black politics, black organizations, and "Our Kind Of People" have quietly defied America. Obama was not "Our Kind Of People" - yet his Excellence immediately gave him entrance to the club.

The poorest black folks on the South Side of Chicago recognized it - and so did the third and fourth generation HBCU grads - and all that being third or fourth generation HBCU implies.

Neither Clinton nor Sanders has the background to trigger that admiration across all parts of black America. They just don't. However I'm faced with the devil I know vs the devil I don't know AS well.

The devil I know won't throw away SCOTUS appointments- to throw every single bank CEO in prison for breaking laws that don't exist.

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'Iowa�s Black Caucusgoers' [View all] Number23 Feb 2016 OP

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"That poor girl from the Sanders campaign must be exhausted." Number23 Feb 2016 #2

Keith Ellison..one of my favorite politicians Digital Puppy Feb 2016 #3

He is one of my favorites too. Number23 Feb 2016 #5

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You got it. :) Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2016 #98

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Yep! That sounds right Number23 Feb 2016 #101

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BS'ers are followers....er, I mean "supporters" of BS. Tarheel_Dem Feb 2016 #103

Indeed! ;) Liberal_Stalwart71 Feb 2016 #105

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Gotcha. Understand now. Number23 Feb 2016 #23

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.. Cha Feb 2016 #42

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