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Posted this on FB.

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:58:07 +0000

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Posted this on FB.

At the time, the dissolution of OFA struck me as bizarre and a bad move. The only thing I could chalk it up to was that Obama felt that, as president, he had to leave hyper-partisanship behind. Had to be the president of all the people, little understanding that he was disarming unilaterally. Of course, some of us believe that others of us were simply dupes, and we may have been.

The Atlantic had a relevant

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 08:26:00 +0000

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The Atlantic had a relevant post-mortem on Debbie Wasserman Schultz from last July - worth a reminder that Obama gutted the DNC, was elected "running against the establishment", and that his usual reaction to controversy was to do nothing - the "No drama Obama" that got tiresome repeating.

Yeah PP, I have to agree with

tmccarthy0 — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:24:33 +0000

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Yeah PP, I have to agree with what you've written here. :(

I think it may be both

jollyroger — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 00:27:50 +0000

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I think it may be both simpler and more horrible than you lay out.

I think that we have taken McLuhan to the next power and the message (the content, here, eg, Trump as master business man and not the colossal brain damaged childish festering ego that he is) has become the arbiter and the audience have become players

One characteristic of those who outwit, outlast, outplay--they, like Trump are shameless.

Shame did Hillary in, and whoever rises to lead the party, they better be as shameless as Trump.

ETA this was meant most in response to the impossibility of data penetrating he various stalwartly held misconceptions that dismal survey after survey have detailed. To get people's attention to a fact, it has to be part of the tribal council part of the show, (or else voice over while the hotties get naked )

Ya gotta grab'em by the...never mind.

Hope its OK that i sent this

CVille Dem — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 21:39:54 +0000

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Hope its OK that i sent this to several friends. You were hard (but accurate) n Obama. Very well put together, although I was kind of hoping for instructions about how to fix this clusterfu*k. Oh, well, I cant blame you for not doing that. Why don't you run for office? Then you can say you know exactly how to fix it but never explain. Once you're elected no one would hold you accountable, except maybe Dagbloggers!