What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

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This quote criticizes a president for resorting to using a cartoon character as support for his policies. It questions the validity of such an approach, suggesting that if a president cannot rely on real human examples to justify his record, it may imply shortcomings in his policies. The quote also expresses skepticism towards the ideology of old liberalism, asserting that the belief in policies that promised good jobs, good schools, and good wages despite their historical failures is a fiction.

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