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Originally Posted by Guest
No doubt Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama, but they are running on the exact same issues, and the 2016 election will be all about the issues, not about personalities. Clinton's speech yesterday in NYC could have been Obama's state of the union speech.
What exactly was Obama's rabid base? He received 95% of the black vote, 75% of the Hispanic vote, and won the women's vote by 20%.
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Well, you quickly identified that rabid base.
My concern, and this is sincere, is the Democratic party's dramatic turn left. They seem to be going so very far left. Social issues seem to dominate the party, and they are the home of all the movements.
This was at the very core of President Obama' goal, and he has succeeded and is dramatically enhancing that left/socialist view each day of the balance of his term.
Just me, but the emphasis on social issues, and this is not to demean those issues, but the sheer weight of that push versus our foreign policy for example greatly concerns me.
A statement like that brings the expected responses from the far left calling Hawks, warmongers or whatever the term of the day might be.
It is not anything like that. I believe we need to make a fundemental decision in this country. We are either in or out on issues of the world.
I am reading Erik Larsons wonderful book," Dead Wake; The Last Crossing of the Lusitania", and in exploring the world scene at the outset of WW1, there is a quote by a British statesman concerning the USA not being involved at that time. He basically said he understood that we were isolated and because we had no enemies as neighbors, and thus he understood us not getting involved in the affairs of Europe. This was 1914.....,
It is now 2015, and the world is much smaller. That aura of being safe because of our location is gone. Technology allow that we are neighbors of the world.
Thus, foreign affairs, to me, is important, and the Democratic Party seems, perhaps I am reading it wrong and perhaps that move to socialist leftist is good, but I think it will hurt our country very badly.
The social issues are important, but not in my opinion, enough to pull us so far left as to cease to be what made this country great.
We always were a free enterprise democracy of sorts, but seem to be moving so far away as to have lost our way. The thud we will hear, if this left turn is wrong, will be a thud that is NOT REVERSABLE by our children or grandchildren, thus we better examine ourselves and make that tough decision....either in or out in the smaller and smaller world.