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In reply to the discussion: Question for the older generation.... [View all]OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)81. Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises.....
Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises
"....an illustrated look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections from George Washington to G. W. Bush."
It took me more time to post it than it did to find it. Google is your friend...try it sometime.
"....an illustrated look at 200-plus years of dirty tricks and bad behavior in presidential elections from George Washington to G. W. Bush."
It took me more time to post it than it did to find it. Google is your friend...try it sometime.
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Do you not remember 1968?!? BOBBY WAS ASSASSINATED! And in '72 WALLACE WAS SHOT!
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#5
I don't, unfortunately. You're talking about politics, though, and I think the OP was asking about..
Cooley Hurd
Feb 2013
#11
Hamilton and Burr had a deadly DUEL, fergawdsake. And does no-one recall these Dallas flyers?
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#8
BESIDES this, JFK was warned off Dallas because Adlai AND LADY BIRD were SPAT UPON there.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#86
These are the most polarized and mean-spitited times ever, and I was born in 1942.
dmosh42
Feb 2013
#23
Please re-read my Post #5. I'd like to know how the present is more "dangerous" than 1968.
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#89
BULLSHIT: "Plus, I've seen instances of liberals being hateful and mean-spirited, too."
FSogol
Feb 2013
#27
It's Been Ugly, Before. But Now It's Organized And Applied, To A Whole Other Depth.
Paladin
Feb 2013
#29
I don't think it's any worse than it was in the past, the difference is 24 hour news and hate radio.
OregonBlue
Feb 2013
#30
Certainly a significant factor, but the never-ending election cycle effects what
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#39
Sorry, but the decades-long right wing propaganda campaign and media changes are a big part
Overseas
Feb 2013
#32
People who can recall how US politics used to be before, say, 1980 or 1990. N/t.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#45
Based on the watered down version of US History taught is schools these days....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#75
It would btw, be interesting to know the round number age wise of posters
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#48
"Getting into politics is like stepping in dogshit." From The Motorcycle Diaries.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#49
There have been nasty times--McCarthy Era, for example, and long before the Burr/Hamilton duel...
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#54
thats what happened when democratic voters tossed LBJ the most liberal president ever, out
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#103
"Underhanded"?! Nixon had a notorious "Enemies List"! He told Haldeman to "get me the names
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#90
My 88 yr old father said never this bad. It has been bad, but not this bad ever.
uppityperson
Feb 2013
#59
Surely he remembers the assassinations and attempts on JFK, RFK, MLK, Wallace, Ford, Reagan?
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#93
Don't call him Shirley. Yes, he does, as do I. The bi-polarization has gotten much more extreme
uppityperson
Feb 2013
#97
In the past we have not been inundated and aware of such political nastiness, thanks to
lumpy
Feb 2013
#64
Ooooo! I love open ended questions with 15 rules about what not to talk about!!!!
lunatica
Feb 2013
#66
umm there was a civil war at some point. i am going to guess things were more divisive then
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2013
#77
There has always been treachery and cut-throat tactics in our political history, however...
world wide wally
Feb 2013
#78
I think it has always been like this but since we have 24/7 blanketed "news" now...
WCGreen
Feb 2013
#82
I strenuously disagree re: "worse than the VietNam divisiveness." That is the ORIGIN of "Reagan
WinkyDink
Feb 2013
#95
OK, so it looks like there are more or less two schools of thought in this thread.
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#98