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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If you don't get that there are a lot of Americans who think that $400K is a lot of money for giving a speech and that politicians are too interested in self-enrichment and helping the rich, then I don't know how to help you. I'm not hiding behind anything. To a lot of people, it looks bad, and some of them vote.
Rather than insist than I'm not being logical, which is at least as unpersuasive as anything I've said, you could point out that I'm not solving anything, and that it's easy to criticize Obama for taking the engagement.
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Oh God you've heard nothing. It looks bad to a lot of Americans that Obama has an Arabic middle name and that his skin is black. Does he need to change his name and bleach his skin so Democrats can win elections?
If you can't give some substance to the complaint and are going to base everything on appearances, which translates to biases, frankly, you may deserve Donald Trump, a man who seems to care about little but appearances. Push back on the bullshit, don't embrace it. Part of the problem Dems had in the last election was that we hadn't defended Hillary vigorously enough against the attacks that started during the Clinton administration and continued.
The normal response of many so-called progressives to yet another investigation that would ultimately clear Hillary was "Well, they have a point, but it's not that bad" rather than "they're fucking lying assholes out to get her any way they can", which was the case. So when the Berners picked up Issas and Chaffetz's attacks, like the speaking engagements, it was just more of the same.
