Posted on 08/18/2017 8:02:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not surprisingly, Deval Patrick has been ordained by the Obama camp as the favorite for 2020. As Obama 2.0, the former Massachusetts governor would bring the same failed policies as his mentor. The danger is that by 2020, much of the electorate will have forgotten just how flawed those policies were.
And so a brief reminder:
First, Obama was fortunate enough to have inherited an economy that had begun to recover by the time he entered the White House in January 2009. The economy would have recovered no matter who was president. Obama's contribution was to make it the slowest post-recession recovery in 70 years.
GDP gains following postwar recessions have averaged 4.3%. Growth under Obama averaged 2%. So the economic growth the U.S. lost under Obama was at least 18.4% percent (4.3% minus 2% equals 2.3%, times 8, excluding compounding).
That growth deficit will continue to shadow those same Millennials and younger Gen Xers who helped elect Obama. Compounded over a lifetime, that lost growth amounts to 4.5 times whatever growth was squandered under Obama (18.4% x 3% average growth x 50 years compounded). Lost economic growth is the gift that keeps on giving.
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Axelrod managed Patrick before he managed Obama.
Axelrod used the same strategy for both.
The rhetoric used by both was the same.
If Patrick runs, I’m guessing he’ll use the same stuff.
The economy began recovering in 2009? Um, no it did not.
We don’t need Devil Patrick. He can go to hell where he belongs.
He’s a black Obamawanabe
The Dems need the Blacks to turn out to vote like they did in 2008 and 2012. They didn’t turn out strong enough in 2016, so they need another Black candidate for 2020. If not Patrick, then maybe Kamala Harris. Identity politics and the “race card.” It’s all the Dems have left.
not going to be another negro for a very long time.
Marxist fag mooselimb, obamma did that.
Patrick is far less bright and appealing than Obama.
He’s squeaky-voiced and short, too.
I don’t see it.
so for sure we want him to run
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