Should Hillary embrace Obama or distance herself?
Embrace
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Distance
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Why wouldn't she embrace someone with higher popularity ratings than EITHER candidate?? Especially when ALL the "right wing conspiracy" crap against him has been openly discounted by most respected right wingers AS crap! (Birther crap, Muslim crap,[and other Trumpisms], secret army crap, take your guns crap, etc.)! Only the dumbest of the "basket cases" still cling to those as "gospel"! Side: Embrace
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It would be politically smart for her to embrace him, since she will be relying on the same support base that got him elected. Obama, on the other hand, should keep his distance and do very few events for her, seeing as how he is still the sitting president and all that. Side: Embrace
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the deficit has gone down more than two-thirds during his presidency (back to 2003, 2004 levels) - ref stock markets are at record highs - ref corporate profits high - ref 78 consecutive months of private sector job growth (the longest in history) resulting in more than 15 million jobs - ref full employment - ref The black unemployment rate has averaged lower than the current rate in only 2 years on record: 1999 and 2000 - ref home prices recovered ref wages up - ref poverty down - ref food stamps down - ref Non-business bankruptcies are down 40% since 2010 - ref Business bankruptcies are down more than 55% to below 2007 levels - ref and and... Side: Embrace
GDP at 1.1 percent annual growth rate really Democrat ! The economy is a failure under Obama. No president in the history of the nation has been worst on economic growth than Barack Insane Obama. Violent Crime is down ? You checked with Chicago ? Full employment ? You mean adding 151,000 jobs last month is a plus ? You Democrats are brain dead and can be sold anything ! Side: Distance
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GDP GDP is at an all-time record high - about 18.5 trillion. Best GDP growth generally happens under Dems ref You checked with Chicago ? You checked nationally?? Also, the violent crime rate in Chicago is up slightly from the last couple of years, but is still down from the Bush and early Obama years. ref adding 151,000 jobs last month is a plus ? Um, yes. Keep in mind that the number of jobs added per month with full employment will be less, ceteris paribus, than we would expect when below full employment - thus the upward pressure on wages. Side: Embrace
If the "do nothing if it helps Obama" Congress would think of the "American people" (a term they LOVE, but ignore), they would have passed the infrastructure bills we sorely needed, then the recovery would have been one of the FASTEST on record! But, alas, they care NOTHING about those American people .... except at voting time! Side: Embrace
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I think she'll win regardless (unless somehow she goes to jail first, which doesn't appear to be happening). And if she's going to win regardless then she needs to think longer term. Embracing Obama only helps insure gridlock and payback as she tries to pass future laws. Whereas standing on her own at least gives her a fighting chance to forge relationships which can get things done. Side: Distance
Hillary Clinton woke up to bad news: the U.S. economy is slowing. Just about everyone says the key to her victory in November is a strong economy. She's campaigning on the fact that President Obama dug America out of the worst downturn since the Great Recession, but she's the one to finish the job and ensure everyone benefits. It just got harder to make that case. The U.S. economy only grew 1% in the first half of 2016. That's not a contraction, but it's well below the 2.4% growth from last year, let alone the historic average of over 3%. Even Wall Street was shocked by how bad the report was. "Today's numbers are a disappointment," wrote Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch Ratings. "Growth is clearly not going to reach 2% this year." So tell me Democrat what you got to say now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Side: Distance
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