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Originally Posted by Damien
If he does. He has a Republican congress so no excuses if he doesn't.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Were they aspirations, rather than promises?  |
My point is that the voters didn't care whether he is actually going to carry out a specific policy, only that he does something about those issues. A sort of hyperbole, where you exaggerate something in order to demonstrate your strength of feeling. Clinton's approach was to simply say that there wasn't a problem in the first place and so wasn't going to do anything.