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Jayd4sho

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15. The benefit of Obama (and Sanders when the time comes)
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 03:29 PM
Jun 2016

The problem with Hillary is that for whatever reason (subconscious sexism comes into play I'm sure) the general public scrutinizes her when she "attacks." She's either too mean, too scolding, out of control, etc but if she doesn't attack she is too weak, too womanly, not commander in chief material. A lot of Sanders supporters think Hillary was attacking him when in fact she barely touched him. Sure she questioned his policies but she never attacked his personal character, life, and associations like he did to her. Hillary did a little of that to Obama in 2008 and she got a lot of backlash for it. Obama did the same to her and nobody cared. So in essence, Obama and Sanders can retort anything Trump says without any ramifications. Hillary can only attack Trump through policy speeches but never on a one on one verbal diatribe. So Obama can easily do this for her. He usually does it with a repeat of the accusation, a chuckle, a sarcastic/snide response, then some factual correction. (And it works)

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They will take Trump to the woodshed and tan his orange hide workinclasszero Jun 2016 #1
Trump will probably disgrace himself even further now. stopbush Jun 2016 #2
He just tweeted. Or farted. Or something. nolabear Jun 2016 #5
He's doing everything he can to lose this race displacedtexan Jun 2016 #7
OMG her reply! nolabear Jun 2016 #8
Bwahahaha! Haveadream Jun 2016 #12
Can't wait for Warren and Biden to speak tonight! They have the S.S. Trump in their sights! nolabear Jun 2016 #3
LOL OKNancy Jun 2016 #4
I'm howling! nolabear Jun 2016 #9
Not a tweeter. Why is this funny? displacedtexan Jun 2016 #10
delete your account OKNancy Jun 2016 #11
Oh. displacedtexan Jun 2016 #13
Last week caquillo Jun 2016 #6
LOL - tweeters are going crazy (fun) OKNancy Jun 2016 #14
LOLOL! workinclasszero Jun 2016 #16
The benefit of Obama (and Sanders when the time comes) Jayd4sho Jun 2016 #15
A politician's surrogates are supposed to be the attack squad anyway. Walk away Jun 2016 #17
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