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I know your anger, I know your dreams I’ve been everything you want to be I’m the cult of personality Like Mussolini and Kennedy I’m the cult of personality - Living Colour The latest round of polls in the post-Biden announcement era have left me scratching my head yet again. On the rare occasions when I turn out to be wrong, (who… me?) I at least try to make some sort of amends and determine where it was that I went off the beam. Since the end of Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations - at least for this cycle - I have been confidently awaiting the slow, perhaps-reluctant, but steady return of her avid followers to the Democratic fold. If these poll numbers hold any validity at all, it simply hasn’t happened to the required degree, and all of Hillary’s exhortations to the clan have not resulted in even half of them signing on to the Obama bandwagon. What went wrong? During the early days of the Democratic primary, one of the repeated battle cries we heard were the endless accusations that Obama’s followers were a “ cult of personality ” who were star-struck by an empty suit with no substance. No matter that the two candidates had virtually identical platforms and proposals… Hillary was the candidate of substance who would bring those plans to fruition. She would correct the country’s errant course - set these last eight years by the Republicans, mind you - and do so in effective manner on Day One which the youthful and untes ...
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I know your anger, I know your dreams I’ve been everything you want to be I’m the cult of personality Like Mussolini and Kennedy I’m the cult of personality - Living Colour The latest round of polls in the post-Biden announcement era have left me scratching my head yet again. On the rare occasions when I turn out to be wrong, (who… me?) I at least try to make some sort of amends and determine where it was that I went off the beam. Since the end of Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations - at least for this cycle - I have been confidently awaiting the slow, perhaps-reluctant, but steady return of her avid followers to the Democratic fold. If these poll numbers hold any validity at all, it simply hasn’t happened to the required degree, and all of Hillary’s exhortations to the clan have not resulted in even half of them signing on to the Obama bandwagon. What went wrong? During the early days of the Democratic primary, one of the repeated battle cries we heard were the endless accusations that Obama’s followers were a “ cult of personality ” who were star-struck by an empty suit with no substance. No matter that the two candidates had virtually identical platforms and proposals… Hillary was the candidate of substance who would bring those plans to fruition. She would correct the country’s errant course - set these last eight years by the Republicans, mind you - and do so in effective manner on Day One which the youthful and untes ...