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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:27 AM Original message |
This Prez. was supposed to be our new FDR. |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. Word tonight is that the Dems are abandoning the |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 07:29 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Just FYI- everybody who has Medicare purchases it |
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knowbody0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. I listened to Ed Schultz today |
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 04:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Head in sand mentality. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 06:58 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. For those who voted for him, yes. Thankfully not I n/t |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. not voting for obama is your badge of honor eh? |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 12:30 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. Well, one person's cynicism is another's realism |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 05:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. pounce with what |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:27 AM Response to Reply #2 |
29. To a lot of us, that sounds like just another way to say "we're keeping our powder dry"... |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 02:39 AM Response to Original message |
3. Hope you're right. If not, hope you & the other "it's part of a larger strategy" people |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 05:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. at least the strategies change from day=to=day |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
4. the only thing I've seen is giveaways to his business buddies |
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DrDan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 05:53 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. their stocks went up 3.5% or so couple of days ago while the DOW tanked |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 03:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. The pres has been exposed you can't represent the insurance lobby and the people at the same time |
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 04:57 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. +1 nt |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
11. Yeah! WTF is wrong with Obama and his promise to be FDR? |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
12. We only missed by one president. (not in Truman's direction). |
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Omar4Dems (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 07:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Yep. Barak "Herbert Hoover" Obama. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:30 AM Response to Reply #17 |
34. As long as it's not Barack "St Ronnie" Obama |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. FAIL |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:22 AM Response to Reply #12 |
27. Herbert Hoover was a very intelligent pragmatist... |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
14. Congress has never been so thoroughly owned before. |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:19 AM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Absolutely. Real reform requires 525 others working with you. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:24 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Yeah. Three hundred committed to single-payer, or a strong public option... |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
15. I never thought he was FDR - nor did he campaign as the new FDR. |
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Mrs. Overall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
18. FDR was elected in 1932 and didn't begin any true reforms until 1935. |
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Curtland1015 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Yup. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:21 AM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Yeah, but I already got my lavendar-pearl pony, so THERE! nt |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:16 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. You don't understand... we need everything to happen RIGHT FUCKING NOW! |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
20. Did you see social security as FDR proposed it? it excluded many people |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
24. He was? According to whom? I had no illusions. nt |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
30. FDR was a progressive. Obama isn't. |
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Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:28 AM Response to Original message |
31. Barack Obama was supposed to be our new Barack Obama. n/t |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-19-09 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
32. Wow, that would be impressive if Obama could do in 6 months what FDR took years to do |
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