(02-18-2019 11:51 AM)georgewebb Wrote:  

(02-18-2019 11:29 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  The Inner Circle meets


"As presidential hopefuls like Senators Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Sherrod Brown auditioned before them,..."

"But Mr. Obama’s party has also plainly moved leftward on core matters of policy since his term ended, and some factions have grown contemptuous of the consensus-seeking approach Mr. Obama took as president. The coming primary campaign may hinge in part on whether Democratic voters favor making gradual improvements to Mr. Obama’s legacy or pursuing more disruptive policy changes like enacting single-payer health care."

Yikes -- the tone of that article is puke-worthy. Check out this groaner: "The discreet role Mr. Obama is taking reflects his longstanding ambivalence about acting as a partisan political leader."

Good grief!

The one that stood out to me was this one:

"He has urged candidates to push back on Mr. Trump’s bleak and divisive rhetoric about economic change,..."

I am wondering if Lad or anybody else can give us some examples of this. What came to my mind was his enumerating the economic indices that are rising.