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This 2016 Speculation Is Really Getting People Down

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David Wagner 1,943 Views Nov 27, 2012

GOP leaders are already hinting at possible candidates for president in 2016. One exhausted commenter wonders if perpetual presidential jockeying has become an existentialist nightmare. Don Ramsey asks

Is this the first level of Hell, where the presidential campaign is eternal?

Yes. What we're going through is either like something out of Dante or a Sartrean nightmare where hell isn't other people—it's other politicians. 

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