Reply #46: Thank you! He's talking about symbols, cultural references, and proxies.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

I don't know where these people were in the 80s and 90s, when the very things that Obama is referencing were a huge part of the political dialogue. The Republicans swept into power in '92 in no small part by characterizing Democrats and liberals as draft dodging, pot smoking, hippie throwbacks. This isn't personal because those were bullshit memes with no basis in reality. But Obama is right that Clinton brings all that stuff up again. It's not her fault but it just is what it is. People better realize that if she's the nom we are going to go through that same cultural argument again.