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Rowdyboy

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3. It doesn't get any better....How do you explain her gravitas to someone accustomed to the pissants

Reply to MADem (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 04:51 AM

Feb 2013

in congress today? She stood like a rock and did not give a shit about her next election.

It was a different time, and politicans were cut from a different cloth. Today its a "brave, new world" and thats to our detriment.

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Here she is from the 1992 Democratic Convention....absolutely majestic Rowdyboy Feb 2013 #1

She was beloved in my family's home. MADem Feb 2013 #2

It doesn't get any better....How do you explain her gravitas to someone accustomed to the pissants Rowdyboy Feb 2013 #3

"She stood like a rock..." That, she most certainly did. MADem Feb 2013 #4

Wonderful woman. Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #5

I can only imagine.....People like Barbara don't come along that often..... Rowdyboy Feb 2013 #6

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Kick for a genuine leader and brilliant political figure.... Rowdyboy Feb 2013 #10

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