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inthebrain
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:47 AM Original message |
My what a sweeping shift this board has taken in ideology this past year!!!! |
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JeffR
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
1. Very thought-provoking questions. |
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SuperTrouper
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
34. This is an excellent post. I honestly find myself moving to the left in the past year, |
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leftstreet
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
2. You ask great questions |
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FrenchieCat
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. I haven't seen this "shift" in ideology this past year...... |
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mitchtv
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:15 PM Original message |
How about the overwhelming outright homophobia |
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Vanje
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
47. Since 2001, you could've counted the times on one hand that |
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QC
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Wed Jan-28-09 10:25 AM Response to Reply #47 |
55. Amen! n/t |
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anonymous171
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Wed Jan-28-09 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
56. What are you talking about? nt |
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mitchtv
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Wed Jan-28-09 03:17 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Just read the two preceding posts |
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mitchtv
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
45. sorry overactive touch pad |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think I've been fairly consistent in my desire for economic populism |
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FlyingSquirrel
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:57 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. If the administration falls short, it won't be for lack of effort |
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inthebrain
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #4 |
36. I wonder what "economic populism" is? |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Sounds like you have a pretty good stereotype of what it means to you. |
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inthebrain
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Wed Jan-28-09 02:25 AM Response to Reply #37 |
51. You confirmed the "so called" stereotype |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Wed Jan-28-09 10:22 AM Response to Reply #51 |
54. Then you are on the wrong side. n/t |
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inthebrain
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Wed Jan-28-09 03:39 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. People I have common class interest with are not my enemy |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Thu Jan-29-09 11:02 AM Response to Reply #58 |
66. You don't have a common interest with those who devalue your labor. |
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inthebrain
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Fri Jan-30-09 12:30 AM Response to Reply #66 |
67. Nationalism serves the class interests of the bosses |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Fri Jan-30-09 09:56 AM Response to Reply #67 |
69. Bullshit, the UAW has been fighting a valiant but losing battle... |
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inthebrain
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Fri Jan-30-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. The Union bosses also screwed their own constituents by getting in bed with the bosses |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Sat Jan-31-09 12:21 AM Response to Reply #71 |
82. You think that Reagan was an economic populist? |
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inthebrain
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Sat Jan-31-09 12:43 AM Response to Reply #82 |
84. WOW!!! Reagan started that whole buy American crap |
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lumberjack_jeff
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Sat Jan-31-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #84 |
87. "Buy american" started with Reagan? Really? |
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Forkboy
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Sat Jan-31-09 03:09 PM Response to Reply #84 |
89. "buy American" goes back to the very start of our country. |
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Major Hogwash
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Sat Jan-31-09 02:27 AM Response to Reply #69 |
86. Anti-unionism was Reagan's trademark. |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sat Jan-31-09 03:26 PM Response to Reply #58 |
90. Rubbish justice, as well as charity, begins at home. In the link cited beow, it is |
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merh
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Tue Jan-27-09 01:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. I still consider many of the issues that I have held dearly to be |
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inthebrain
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I'm interested in what those issues are and how they play out with you |
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merh
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. End of torture, withdrawal from Iraq, end of military hostilites, restore diplomacy |
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Zynx
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Tue Jan-27-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #6 |
48. The system is geared to produce moderation in action. |
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firedupdem
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
33. Always a voice of reason. Thanks merh! |
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BlooInBloo
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:09 AM Response to Original message |
7. I haven't noticed an ideological shift, but rather only that DUers are permanently stuck... |
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FairSpanishLadies
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. As you can clearly see by the posts above...there are none so blind as those who will not see. |
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Peacetrain
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Tue Jan-27-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
50. We Won! NT |
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Dragonfli
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
10. I believe it will become more interesting, The new lines were inevitable once a common foe was |
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IGotAName
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
11. Whether the lines are here or there, all that I care about is that |
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saracat
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Tue Jan-27-09 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
12. Very interesting and true. I have seen shift more to the right. The |
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biopowertoday
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Wed Jan-28-09 05:19 PM Response to Reply #12 |
60. this is very |
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earth mom
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
13. Some people around here have sold out just so "history" could be made-no matter what. |
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AllentownJake
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:38 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. He did what he said he was going to do |
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Two Americas
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:29 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. "surprise" |
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pecwae
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Good post, |
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glitch
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #24 |
30. The repetition makes it easier to spot talking points (and their tools), which I find useful. nt |
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dbmk
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:52 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. But what is "the right thing"? |
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AllentownJake
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
14. One thing I've observed about democratic politics |
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Mari333
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
16. I am personally somewhat taken aback by the keyboard warmongers |
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glitch
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:40 AM Response to Reply #16 |
31. Power shift -- natural when something dies for there to be an influx of its "survivors" elsewhere. |
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KittyWampus
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Obama stated REPEATEDLY he would finish the job in Afghanistan. Chickenhawks are about unnecessary |
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Mari333
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
46. chickenhawks are about people who are willing to send other peoples kids to war |
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jeanpalmer
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
78. I'm really disappointed in Obama's response |
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dbmk
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Tue Jan-27-09 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
17. In power. |
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acmavm
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
20. A big part of it is blind idol worship. People here can come up with anq |
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AllentownJake
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:06 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Depending on the issue |
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AtomicKitten
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:21 AM Response to Reply #22 |
28. The accusation of idol worship is intended to summarily dismiss people. |
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boppers
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:04 AM Response to Original message |
21. tenant strike? squatters? |
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rug
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
23. LBJ's achilles heel was war. |
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autorank
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Tue Jan-27-09 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
26. Give and take, dialog, mutual respect ought to be the themes k*r |
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Odin2005
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
27. "influx of youth now taking an interest in this side of the fence. " I think you nailed it here. |
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Still Sensible
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Tue Jan-27-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I think you're onto something |
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Odin2005
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:36 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. IMO the problem is that many Boomers can't see that the Blue side of the culture wars has won. |
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Jennicut
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. Yes. The younger the generation the more liberal it is. |
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Still Sensible
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Tue Jan-27-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I am certainly happy that the younger |
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Odin2005
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Wed Jan-28-09 09:00 AM Response to Reply #44 |
53. You would be suprised how much my generation supports what other decry as "big government". |
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comrade snarky
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Wed Jan-28-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. Now that's funny! |
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Lilith Velkor
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Wed Jan-28-09 06:23 PM Response to Reply #38 |
64. That's what we all thought in 1979. |
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Zynx
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Tue Jan-27-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #27 |
49. Indeed. My generation(I am 22) does not look upon the 1960s and 1970s political |
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Odin2005
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Wed Jan-28-09 08:45 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. I'm also 22 and totally agree with you. |
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YvonneCa
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Fri Jan-30-09 10:47 PM Response to Reply #52 |
74. Try this... |
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SidneyCarton
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Wed Jan-28-09 04:10 PM Response to Reply #27 |
59. Agreed. |
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YvonneCa
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
80. So did you canvass for Obama... |
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Laelth
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
35. Been a lefty for years. Still a lefty. |
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tledford
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
39. A Palinism? |
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Jennicut
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
40. I'm in my early 30's and don't see major shifts |
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Odin2005
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Thu Jan-29-09 09:43 AM Response to Reply #40 |
65. The thing is though, that younger Gen-Xers like yourself and... |
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YvonneCa
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Fri Jan-30-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #65 |
75. Got a link ... |
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Odin2005
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #75 |
77. Here ya go: |
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YvonneCa
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:37 PM Response to Reply #77 |
79. So it's kind of like horoscopes... |
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Odin2005
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Sat Jan-31-09 12:39 AM Response to Reply #79 |
83. No. n/t |
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riqster
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Tue Jan-27-09 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
42. I haven't changed my views one bit, but |
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Danger Mouse
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Tue Jan-27-09 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
43. With Bush gone we'll see more divisions on DU than we had previously. |
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Kaleva
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #43 |
76. Lack of a common enemy will open up the fizzures |
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ShortnFiery
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Wed Jan-28-09 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
62. I've always been a pinko lefty a la Dennis Kucinich variety. |
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mmonk
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Wed Jan-28-09 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
63. I will not agree with no responsibilty on the crimes committed |
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jzodda
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Fri Jan-30-09 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
68. My views haven't changed for the most part |
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ginnyinWI
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Fri Jan-30-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
70. this would be a good subject for a poll, don't you think? |
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Hollow Shells
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Fri Jan-30-09 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
72. This website is leaning a little more to the right since I joined. |
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salonghorn70
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Fri Jan-30-09 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
73. Question For The OP |
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Jamastiene
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Fri Jan-30-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
81. I, personally, do not like the rightward shift at all. |
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QC
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Sat Jan-31-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #81 |
88. Agreed. Freepers are not something "over there" anymore. n/t |
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SergeyDovlatov
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Sat Jan-31-09 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
85. I noticed shift to the right among some, justifying bombing of Pakistan using ... |
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