And he's not only the Democratic nominee for the US Presidency. He's also something of a historian. Here he is today:
"Don't underestimate the capacity of Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Don't underestimate our ability to screw it up."
If there's any thing Democrats have been good at in the last thirty years, it's selling out their principles in order to win, losing at the last minute, or just blindly losing. I'd say this trend changed after Bush seriously proposed privatizing social security and Nancy Pelosi showed the President what it looks like to go up against a politician from Baltimore. She rallied Congress and the American people led by different groups like the AARP and MoveOn to say, "you fuck with FDR's legacy one more inch and you fuck with us all. And guess what? We won't let you." And the rest is a new history. A history of winning.
But the old history can repeat itself. So I like Obama's advice. It keeps us on our toes.
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