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The "mirror principle".

The Clintons are "divisive" because they successfully and repeatedly resist Conservative efforts to bring them down, and Obama fails to "show leadership" because he can't get anything past deliberately obstructive Republican legislative blackmail and hostage taking, even policies they have supported in the past.

Obama stopped and reversed Bush's Great Recession, and put a stop to his endless wars. Our economy is now the envy of the planet, even those of our biggest and most powerful rivals. He put the nation back to work (<5% unemployment), killed Bin Ladin, decimated Al Quaeda and the Taliban, and has ISIS on the run, on the cheap in terms of blood and treasure. So there's still chaos in the middle east. So what else is new? Under Bush, the region was united against us.

Is everything going hunky-dory? Of course not, it NEVER is, as the party out of power always rightly points out. But things could be a lot worse. That's what the people hoped for in 2008, and that's what they agreed on again in 2012.

The GOP now sees the Democrat streak going on for another 4, maybe 8, years and its nobody's fault but theirs. Trump is actually the best they can come up with,not the worst, and even the bulk of the GOP knows it, although they dare not admit it.

The 21st century has not been a record of Democratic success, it is a testament to Republican incompetence and stupidity. Its not just that their ideology is wrong, its that they don't know what they're doing. They can only win local elections through creative redistricting, gerrymandering, and voter suppression, plus the indifference of an electorate that is, for the most part, happy with the way things are going. (Except, of course, all those old white guys who can't get their way anymore.)

I've said it before, let me repeat it. The Bush Baby was supposed to be the new Reagan, he turned out to be the new Hoover. And Obama will be remembered as the new Roosevelt. BHO may not really deserve those honors, but compared to his Republican rivals, he's starting to look like the New Lincoln. His positive ratings are unprecedented for a lame duck.

So in spite of the generation of hate and vitriol the Right has heaped on Hillary, They are not going to be able to convince America to
abandon her legacy. The last time things were going really well in America a Clinton was in power.

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