Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that โdemeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.โ ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: โA woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.โ
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