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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:10 PM Original message |
What is a latte liberal? |
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islandmkl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. it's nothing more than someone's smarmy label for their opposition.... |
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Prefer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. A label used by people who are afraid you are hipper than they are |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's a freeperism adopted by... Well... It's a freeperism |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
4. Hell if I know, I'm a Dunkin' Donuts Regular liberal myself |
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Elspeth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. A Starbucks customer who doesn't have change for the homeless guy outside the door |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. A Dem who wears a 3x????!! |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. I Think I Know, But I Think I'm a Black Coffee Liberal |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. Somone who buys breakfast at Dunkin Donuts or McDonalds? |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
9. What's a metrosexual? |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:16 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. To answert your question.. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Riiight. It's so "elitist" that McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts sells it. |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Actually, I don't do McDonalds or any of that |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:04 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Not too busy working to surf the web and post at DU though. |
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panader0 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
41. Come work with me some day mister office guy Ha ha ha |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:45 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. LOL! I did not work in an office until I was 33 years old. I think I could hang, buddy. |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Does the glare from my manicure bother you? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Like that working class FDR? |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Martinis and a cigarette holder- musta been a big city SISSY!!! |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
74. Why can't the party stand for ALL people? And why the need |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. I'm not sure, but if you are what you drink, then I'm as Liberal as they come! |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
14. Someone with sufficient disposable income to afford Starbucks or other |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Or other elitist places such as McDonalds & Dunkin Donuts. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:24 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. REAL dems use bacon grease |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Yes- the hogs that they enter into the county fair, while everyone else surfs the web. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Well, I know you are trying to be snarky, but naaah. Dunkin Donuts, which is owned |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. What a load of crap. This bizzare characterization assumes that all "Real DEMS" like crappy stuff. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:06 PM Response to Reply #21 |
33. To each his, or her, own. Just because I think a cup of coffee with fluff on top is crap |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:14 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. GOP? Actually, Now-a-days I hear the term more from Pro-Hillary DUers. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I don't know where you're getting these characterizations. I am not TALKING about |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:36 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Actually, you just described how I grew up in Vance County, N.C. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:34 PM Response to Reply #42 |
53. A twenty five cent box of mac isn't going to feed four people. Rice and beans will. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:30 PM Response to Reply #53 |
61. Hillary supporters on DU have been calling Obama supporters "latte liberals"- it's crap. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. No, I haven't seen that. But go ahead and insist that I have, when I haven't. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. I'm not Poed-I just cant believe you havent seen DLCers characterize the net-roots as elitist |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:00 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Well, you can buy what you want, but I don't lie. We're done because you |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:08 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. If you say you never saw the DLC characterize the net-roots as elite, then you dont DU much. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:43 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. I never post in the lounge. And I haven't seen what you're talking about. NT |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #71 |
72. You never saw DLC Duers characterize the net-roots as elite & out of touch with the mainstream? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #72 |
73. What I think is you have a bug up your ass re: that topic, and you assume everyone else does, too. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:12 PM Response to Reply #73 |
75. I just get a kick out of making the DLC/Hillary guys play dumb. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. Latte liberals are people who actually vote against their economic interests? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:22 PM Response to Reply #44 |
60. You are unselfish and you see the big picture and take the long view. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
15. I think it's someone who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk... |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
16. A paper cup waster! |
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Lobster Martini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
20. Malbec Liberal! |
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GOPBasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
23. I don't drink coffee. Can I still be liberal? |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:50 PM Original message |
So long as you like wine, or eat sushi at a mall-food court, you are still in. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
24. Urban/suburban dwelling, college educated, upper income, with a tendency to pontificate |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:54 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. "Book knowledge"- dontcha mean "fancy-pants-book-learnin"? |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #27 |
38. Hey, by my own definition I am a "latte liberal" though I don't drink latte. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:26 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Shame on you. Put on some over-alls so you can be like the mythological DLC moderate. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:57 PM Response to Reply #40 |
55. I've actually been hunting. Never farmed though, but I did milk a cow on a field trip once. |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:54 PM Response to Original message |
26. It's a Freeperism now adopted by some on DU as a class-wedge issue. |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:58 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. We have a winner! Ahh- the food & drink controversey... |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
84. DING DING DING, We Have a Winner! |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #26 |
85. KICK NT |
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roughsatori (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
86. KICK NT |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
30. I think I am |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
34. A latte liberal is a moderate Republican |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:11 PM Response to Reply #34 |
46. Unfortunately- the term is now used at DU by DLCers to attack DEMS, not Repubs. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
36. Sam Smith said it best |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
89. Does that make me one? |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
37. A Limousine Liberal that has scaled back.....a lot |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:48 PM Original message |
I am |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
45. I am |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
47. Now here is some serious answer... after making my latte of course |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I don't think it's just in the northeast |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:41 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. That is what the short hand stands for in the GOP |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
48. A well-heeled liberal |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
50. You're talking about me. |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
51. one who can afford to own a house, SUV, and still eat... |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
52. Personally, I prefer a quad mocha vente. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:06 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. 3x 10 oz mocha here |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:21 PM Response to Reply #56 |
59. It's how I "launch" my mornings ... yum! |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
57. Lattes are cheap these days-at least at Dunkin Donuts they are |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:03 PM Response to Reply #57 |
66. Exactly- the DLCers need a new term-maybe "Lobster Liberals?" |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
58. Pie-in-the-sky. Younger-Ivory-Tower. Loser. |
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RoadRage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
65. I'm assuming i'm a "latte liberal"... |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
67. KPFK use to use the term cafe latte liberal talking about people who are politically liberal but |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
69. Someone who likes a little coffee with their milk and thinks for a living. |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
70. I'm lactose intolerant and coffee gives me reflux |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
76. " "Liberals" who have nothing better to do than to join fashionable causes." |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
77. lmao...look at all the words used to describe "conservative's" |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
78. Latte: What a limousine liberal drinks after an expensive course of rehab |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
79. Here's what I think it is |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #79 |
81. But, poor liberals do live in the suburbs. |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #81 |
83. Ok... |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
80. Definition: A liberal who has never lived the injustices they're trying to change. |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
82. Whole Foods customer n/t |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #82 |
87. What about Trader Joe's? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-29-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #87 |
88. I admit it, I shop at Trader Joe's and love it |
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