I’m loving Al Gore’s keynote at the Democratic convention. He’s seized the Reagan legacy of “are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” and come out swinging, asking some pretty obvious questions about the promises of George W. Bush 4 years ago. Questions like “did you get what you expected? “Did you expect the largest deficits in history?” “Do you feel united or divided?”
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