Obama is no Clinton

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“I don’t want to try to read the tea leaves on election results,” said President Obama following last Tuesday’s historic defeat.

Who’s he kidding? A month earlier, the president was honest and accurate when he told a crowd at Northwestern University, “I’m not on the ballot this fall … but make no mistake — these policies are on the ballot, every single one of them.” Fair enough.

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