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I read, yesterday, some excerpts from your interview with Rolling Stone. (I didn’t go purchase the entire magazine because I am underemployed/just-plain-cheap/a shut-in, take your pick.) And among other things, you told RS:

When I talk to Democrats around the country, I tell them, “Guys, wake up here…I keep in my pocket a checklist of the promises I made during the campaign, and here I am, halfway through my first term, and we’ve probably accomplished 70 percent of the things that we said we were going to do—and by the way, I’ve got two years left…”

Uh, yeah, Mr. President? Sir? Are you the nation’s supreme executive and a progressive leadership figure? Or a goddamn shipping clerk?

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I don’t usually like to do this, but I’ll make an exception today. (And after all, if anyone doesn’t like the way I’m blogging, they know what to do about it.) Because I think this message needs to be seen and heard as widely as possible during the next five weeks:

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I hope this will help clear up confusion which has surrounded this question lately.

I see that the other day, friend Paul posted an item indicating that Democrats’ polling numbers have actually turned back toward the light, of late, with of course a corresponding slump in the Republican “surge.”

Wishful thinking? Actually… probably not.

I mean, come on. It’s as though no one in America has ever lived through a general election before. How often does election coverage not only begin with months of expectations for a completely one-sided outcome, but then continue those expectations throughout the last several weeks of the campaign?

I realize that I’m going dangerously far out on a limb toward making predictions of my own, but it is not and never was likely that the “GOP, GOP, GOP” drumbeat was going to remain the only noise heard from our political punditocracy between July and November. Consider:

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