Susan Comstock
Feb 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Love your podcasts…but please, no more “Bernie would have won!” You can’t know that, and he could no more talk about how he would break up big banks, and what that would do to the economy, than T***p could tell you what nullifying trade agreements would do. You seemed to accuse Hillary of being prepared! She would have been an excellent president, better than either of those guys by a long shot. I was inspired by her, and was heartbroken when she lost the electoral college.

I would like you to talk more about messaging. Obama was great at campaigning, but he seemed to lose the messaging battle with the stimulus, the ACA, even getting bin Laden. Why is that? Do Democrats think that their accomplishments are so obvious that they don’t need to talk about them? I get that, as I don’t need to be convinced, but it seems like we need to get better at that. You were part of a gifted team in the White House. What happened?

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