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Obama and Buttiege can't win no matter what you do.

Based on this thread, I tend to agree.

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Originally posted by Nina:
Maybe because the dinner is a private fund raiser and they can do whatever they want?

It’s not a question of who can do what, it’s about what he believes and whether that can get him to 270. I can’t imagine him staking out the principle he described and then carving out an exclusion for public displays. Maybe I’m wrong.

And maybe I’m wrong about the broader point. Maybe someone can carry PA, OH, WI, FL with that message. But I doubt it.

He could have easily explained changing the name of the dinner without staking out broad beliefs about whom a society should honor and whom it shouldn’t.

How easy - and true - would it have been to say something like “‘Jackson and Jefferson’ isn’t really how we think of the Democratic Party in 2019. We should make the name of our annual fundraiser something more in line with the spirit of the party today”