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Old 11-21-2020, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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“If we keep taking steps toward a more perfect union, and close the gaps between who we are and who we want to be, America will move forward.”

~President Obama, 2015
A speech given to the NAACP in July 2015. So what did Obama do for Black people between then and Jan 2017?
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Old 11-21-2020, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte FL
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race had nothing to do with it..anyone with two brain cells knew he had to go..
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Old 11-21-2020, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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race had nothing to do with it..anyone with two brain cells knew he had to go..
if "one side" acts in the way that you just said - because I was just pointing out where that quote came from - and assumes only idiots and ass holes constituted 72MM votes, then we won't be able to come together as a nation.
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Old 11-21-2020, 05:47 PM
 
Location: NYC
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A related question to the OP:

Why did whites in the north fight to free the slaves? Obviously if the whites stayed united, they could have kept the blacks enslaved for another 400 more years.
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Old 11-21-2020, 05:59 PM
 
Location: West Palm Beach, FL
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It's only close in a few swing states. Which is entirely expected, that's what it means to be a swing state.

Overall, it's not close at all. Biden will win with exactly the same number of electoral votes that Trump won with. Now I thought calling 306 votes a landslide, as Trump did, was always an exaggeration, so I'm not calling it a landslide for Biden either. It's a comfortable and respectable margin though. Trump blew it. I sincerely hope that Biden doesn't.

Many states, R AND D, that use mail-in doing did just fine, and no one in those states is screaming fraud..
If Biden "blows it" I'm sure you'll vote for him or whatever Democrat runs. So spare us the theatrics.
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Old 11-21-2020, 06:05 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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A related question to the OP:

Why did whites in the north fight to free the slaves? Obviously if the whites stayed united, they could have kept the blacks enslaved for another 400 more years.
they were racists
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Old 11-22-2020, 01:44 PM
 
Location: *
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A speech given to the NAACP in July 2015. So what did Obama do for Black people between then and Jan 2017?
My post was to comment on the following in bold:

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Canada doesn't even allow mail-in voting. Heck, even third world banana republics don't allow mail-in voting, precisely because it's rife for being brutalized.



I will never trust another election in America as long as millions are mailing intheir votes - to mention nothing of Big Tech pulling all the strings for far Leftist policies going forward.



America will never have a clean election again. Mark my words. Which is why Trump's first term was such a surprise - Big Tech didn't get Hillary elected when they easily could have. But those days are over.


America is no longer a free country - come to think of it it probably never was.
America was/is an idea, a poem (Walt Whitman) so to speak. It was not a free Country for all from day one. My reality-based take on President Obama's statement ...

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"If we keep taking steps toward a more perfect union, and close the gaps between who we are and who we want to be, America will move forward.”
... was that his was a reality & evidence based take on the Preamble's:

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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ...
I was confirming that we the People of the United States have by reality-based assessments, taken steps to forming a more perfect union.

We, by reality-based assessments, have taken steps to close the gaps between who we are & who we want to be.

There is, imho, still work to be done.

There also seems to be some disagreement about "who we want to be".
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Old 11-23-2020, 01:03 AM
 
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Biden was more popular than Hillary, or OBAMA... Let that sink in...to reality. You buying it?
Or trump was worse than most expected.
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Old 11-23-2020, 01:12 AM
 
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Don't complain when the job market doesn't improve and it's hard to get a job.

Prior to the pandemic that began in March, the economy was booming and we had record low unemployment. If Biden "officially" wins, things may not improve until he gets out of office.
No, the economy hasn’t been “booming” for decades.
We’ve been propping it up with debt and low interest rates for at least the last 15 years.
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Old 11-23-2020, 01:25 AM
 
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Considering Trump got MORE votes than he did 4 years ago, I would say no one had "buyer's remorse".
Very, very poor logic.
The most tremendously poor logic the world has ever seen. Ask anybody.
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