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Old 10-10-2016, 04:01 PM   #3451 (permalink)
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What sucks is that they so transparently come across like salespersons. They clearly have their memorized talking points that they keep going back to, regardless of what the topic was, and it also sucks that the talking points seem to be evenly divided between selling themselves with some shallow, usually vague marketing talk and attacking their opponent. How any of that is supposed to help anyone intelligently decide who to vote for is a mystery. As always it ends up being about personality, charisma, etc.
Welcome to presidential politics 101. Same as it ever was - same as it ever was.

Did you actually expect anything different in 2016 than from 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, and 1976? (these are the ones that I've actually paid attention to.)
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