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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-08-09 10:44 PM
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52. Ding, ding, ding! A winner here. It is ALL about racism.
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  -This Obama Speech Was The Tipping Point For My RW Parents no limit  Sep-08-09 10:52 AM   #0 
  - K& R  pleah   Sep-08-09 10:58 AM   #1 
  - Great! When I saw the OP title, expected it to tip the "bad" way...but it was a "good" tip!  NRaleighLiberal   Sep-08-09 11:06 AM   #2 
  - Have your parents been here for a couple of decades or more?  Lorien   Sep-08-09 11:10 AM   #3 
  - They've been here since 1994. We moved here from Poland when I was 8  no limit   Sep-08-09 11:14 AM   #7 
     - Being from a former Eastern Block nation...  AzNick   Sep-08-09 04:18 PM   #30 
     - Being from an Eastern Block nation  RaleighNCDUer   Sep-08-09 05:00 PM   #32 
     - were in poland are you from, i was sent to family there for a few years when i was a kid  vadawg   Sep-08-09 08:01 PM   #40 
  - This uproar of the speech could be a clue to a great many  liberal N proud   Sep-08-09 11:11 AM   #4 
  - dragged  DireStrike   Sep-08-09 11:13 AM   #6 
  - What would we do without you grammar nazis?  liberal N proud   Sep-08-09 11:33 AM   #14 
  - Hmmm  zogtheobvious   Sep-08-09 04:28 PM   #31 
  - "Swum" is the past participle of "swim."  tblue37   Sep-08-09 05:23 PM   #34 
  - Yeah, thanks  DireStrike   Sep-08-09 07:57 PM   #39 
  - Me thinks youd better listen to the Cheif Teacher of this nation he told them younguns today how  sce56   Sep-08-09 08:33 PM   #42 
  - Nowadays. You just can't makeup for that. ; )  astral   Sep-08-09 09:10 PM   #44 
     - That is true but the military will take HS dropouts again as they are scrapping the bottom of the  sce56   Sep-08-09 10:02 PM   #48 
  - It snuck up on us.....  mrsadm   Sep-09-09 04:04 AM   #57 
  - swammed.  astral   Sep-08-09 09:08 PM   #43 
  - Swum and snuck are both accepted forms, Herr Dire.  Bluenorthwest   Sep-09-09 06:59 AM   #62 
  - I really really hope you are right.  hypocrisyandlies   Sep-08-09 03:20 PM   #27 
  - Believe it or not...  Wounded Bear   Sep-08-09 11:13 AM   #5 
  - It sounds like a good beginning. I'm happy for you. And you are RIGHT about the Dems.  Maru Kitteh   Sep-08-09 11:15 AM   #8 
  - Nice...  redqueen   Sep-08-09 11:17 AM   #9 
  - Luckily for you, they knew something.  Festivito   Sep-08-09 11:26 AM   #10 
  - Lucky you - my dad is sending my mother and I info from Beck's website about terrorists in Obama's  Emit   Sep-08-09 11:27 AM   #11 
  - ..  Cha   Sep-08-09 12:30 PM   #22 
  - OK, but it's "sending my mother and me info".  mwb970   Sep-09-09 06:46 AM   #61 
     - Correct- grammar is usually one of my best subjects, lol  Emit   Sep-09-09 08:52 AM   #67 
        - I know, it was dumb for me to correct you.  mwb970   Sep-09-09 06:37 PM   #74 
  - B.L.O.W.B.A.C.K.  berni_mccoy   Sep-08-09 11:27 AM   #12 
  - yep  Swamp Rat   Sep-08-09 05:02 PM   #33 
     - ROFL at the elephant action shot! n/t  Beartracks   Sep-08-09 07:00 PM   #37 
     - Wicked Swamp Rat  malaise   Sep-09-09 07:02 AM   #63 
     - BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Karenina   Sep-09-09 08:53 AM   #68 
  - Even the CNBC folks  Celebration   Sep-08-09 11:31 AM   #13 
  - 'My parents asked me if the republicans were always this batshit crazy & if they just couldn't see  OmmmSweetOmmm   Sep-08-09 11:36 AM   #15 
  - Whoa! That's a good  Cha   Sep-08-09 12:31 PM   #23 
  - For some it was Schaivo, for others it was...  YvonneCa   Sep-08-09 11:52 AM   #16 
  - On the radio just now  spinbaby   Sep-08-09 11:55 AM   #17 
  - For my daughter's in-laws it was two things: the Swiftboating of Kerry and the selection of Palin...  Hekate   Sep-08-09 12:01 PM   #18 
  - We all have our 'enough is enough'...  YvonneCa   Sep-08-09 01:31 PM   #26 
  - Those were the turning points for my grandmother, too.  Withywindle   Sep-08-09 09:46 PM   #47 
  - she started to see red and turn blue.  Kolesar   Sep-09-09 06:34 AM   #59 
  - The list is endless. When folks look at the long list of "batshit" crazy behavior  LuckyLib   Sep-08-09 10:42 PM   #51 
  - I heard a conservative caller on a local radio station commenting on how  Raschel   Sep-08-09 12:19 PM   #19 
  - Overreach. The GOP are masters at it.  AspenRose   Sep-08-09 12:22 PM   #20 
  - Wow! Good to hear this personal evidence  Cha   Sep-08-09 12:29 PM   #21 
  - where can I see it?  Alameda   Sep-08-09 01:30 PM   #24 
  - Found it....  Alameda   Sep-08-09 01:31 PM   #25 
  - Lucky your folks are from Europe, otherwise they wouldn't get the idiocy of the anti-healthcare  BlancheSplanchnik   Sep-08-09 03:48 PM   #28 
  - this is one of the most encouraging posts i've read in a while- and  Bluerthanblue   Sep-08-09 04:01 PM   #29 
  - good work comrade! your secret plan to turn your parents into socialists is working ;)  BREMPRO   Sep-08-09 06:03 PM   #35 
  - What wonderful news!  CaliforniaPeggy   Sep-08-09 06:57 PM   #36 
  - Yep, all you limbaugh, beck and savage and Pox Noise obsessives.  calimary   Sep-08-09 07:17 PM   #38 
  - This is great news! My folks did the exact same thing! They are just sad that  glinda   Sep-08-09 08:27 PM   #41 
  - Umm . . . . The United Nations is about to revise U.S. currency  astral   Sep-08-09 09:13 PM   #45 
     - do you think we have the bucks to take care of everybody?  AlbertCat   Sep-09-09 09:36 AM   #70 
  - Maybe this will end up biting  femrap   Sep-08-09 09:45 PM   #46 
  - That did my heart a lot of good to read that!  dhpgetsit   Sep-08-09 10:14 PM   #49 
  - Obama's speech to America's students didn't cause controversy  The Wizard   Sep-08-09 10:15 PM   #50 
  - Ding, ding, ding! A winner here. It is ALL about racism.  LuckyLib   Sep-08-09 10:44 PM   #52 
  - Yes. The root cause, as with so much  Golden Raisin   Sep-09-09 12:08 AM   #54 
     - With pain comes awareness (NT)  The Wizard   Sep-09-09 11:06 AM   #73 
  - I find these stories fascinating. My dad was a Goldwater republican until Reagan turned him blue.  Hamlette   Sep-08-09 11:20 PM   #53 
  - G W Bush was an advocate  Enthusiast   Sep-09-09 04:11 AM   #58 
  - Are your folks from one of the former Eastern Bloc nations?  TommyPaine   Sep-09-09 12:55 AM   #55 
  - Your parents are to be commended  Enthusiast   Sep-09-09 03:45 AM   #56 
  - there is some thing about this whole matter which reminds me of the Terri Schiavo affair  Douglas Carpenter   Sep-09-09 06:41 AM   #60 
  - Too on point. You do remember how Senator Obama voted on  Bluenorthwest   Sep-09-09 07:04 AM   #64 
     - The Senate voice vote was passed by unanimous consent - Obama since has said that it was a mistake  Douglas Carpenter   Sep-09-09 07:39 AM   #65 
  - Sooner or later people realize Democrats care more about people.  Historic NY   Sep-09-09 07:47 AM   #66 
  - So did you tell them Repubs have been like this...  ingac70   Sep-09-09 09:18 AM   #69 
  - The repugs are hanging on to their far right support by using fear  eagertolearn   Sep-09-09 09:45 AM   #71 
  - I told all y'all...  ourbluenation   Sep-09-09 10:30 AM   #72 
 

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