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Old 09-20-2014, 06:27 PM   #40 (permalink)
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That's what I kept thinking while reading about this story. It seemed like there were a lot of big promises coming from the "Yes" leadership without much practical thought being put into them, for example the bizarre notion they seemed to have that they could break off from the UK without being saddled with their share of the UK's debt.
I'm no Republican, and I voted for Obama, but a lot of that sounded like the same meaningless, pretty sounding, "Yes, we can!" sloganeering that he was doing during his first election. Gets the young people excited, but has no practical value.
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