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judeling

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5. Well I wasn't against Bernie, just wasn't for him.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 03:04 AM
Feb 2020

Amy was my first choice and Warren was always my second.

It is not what can't be done, it is what can be done.

Quite frankly I settled on Klobuchar pretty early, because it is a game of power. The problems are so big and so deeply embedded that it isn't just about gaining it. It is about retaining it long enough to be effective enough to really start on them short of a revolution. And there are not enough revolutionaries to sustain it. Trump's Power comes from greasing the skids of the destructive path we are on. That is pretty easy actually.

It is much harder to alter the course of a river. We just cannot afford another president with only a year to really get things done.

Amy is the only one I see who knows the game well enough to hold power long enough. That is because with out the House and the Senate. It is at best a holding action.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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