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13. He does deserve some of the blame here

Sat May 1, 2021, 10:03 AM

May 2021

I supported Clinton in the primaries (after supporting other candidates who dropped out) and did so for three big reasons. One was his campaigning explicitly on working with the GOP. A lot of crap was given to Hillary when she scoffed at it, but she was dead right about the lessons of the 1990's in regards to GOP being willing to work with us. That said, he also had a Democratic caucus in the Senate that was less able to rebuke bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake.

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How Biden's firm line with Republicans draws on lesson of Obama's mistakes [View all] DonViejo May 2021 OP

Voting against big budget bills greymattermom May 2021 #1

The RepubliQans....... MyOwnPeace May 2021 #2

Interesting - but I wouldn't call these "Obama's mistakes." StarfishSaver May 2021 #3

Obama's hands were tied on some issues and the GOP blm May 2021 #5

Exactly StarfishSaver May 2021 #6

I see where you are coming from, but USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #9

I agree AZProgressive May 2021 #10

I read somewhere USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #11

I think Obama sincerely wanted to be PatSeg May 2021 #15

True USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #17

I hear you, but I don't know if that was actually a "mistake" StarfishSaver May 2021 #12

You are right USAFRetired_Liberal May 2021 #16

Phew! Thank you for saving me the trouble of saying it. Solomon May 2021 #7

It's exhausting, isn't it? StarfishSaver May 2021 #8

He does deserve some of the blame here dsc May 2021 #13

+1. tanyev May 2021 #14

Learning NOT to trust Republicans on economic and blm May 2021 #4

biden has the polls. mopinko May 2021 #18