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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:02 PM Original message |
Obama's campaign rhetoric reminds me of Reagan in 1980 and 1984 |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. k & r |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. rofl! |
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maddiejoan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. I agree. |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
33. He's going to bring the country together |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. And sends queer people to the back of the bus. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. And he's different from Clinton, Edwards and company on that matter, how? |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:43 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Can you give one example |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:53 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. So you answer my question with a question? |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. I'm a man of few words |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. It's a pointless red herring. |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:04 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. Your dodge of the rhetorical question |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:05 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. LOL! |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:12 PM Response to Reply #53 |
55. The obvious implication |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Is that your answer? |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. . |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:18 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. So you offer up what you admit is "obvious," for no apparent reason, |
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maddiejoan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:15 PM Response to Reply #33 |
58. Like it matters what I think |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:46 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. I wish I could |
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maddiejoan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Just let me have the top bunk |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 07:00 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. thanks |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:59 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. Since when are baby boomers a downtrodden group facing a "round up"? |
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maddiejoan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 07:56 PM Response to Reply #64 |
67. Ask Obama. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:56 PM Response to Reply #67 |
75. So, they're not. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. Isn't if fun to put to words in the mouths of candidates you oppose? |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'm being lectured on liberalism by someone with a T.S. Eliot sig line. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Ah, so, to follow that up, you offer more red herring nonsense. |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. I know, especially when he's actually |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:18 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Is this what passes for discussion at DU these days? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Apparently, how different is it from your reply?? |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:25 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. LOL! |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Was it more "unabashedly spun" as your "outlandish" reply? |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. LOL! |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Yes, your silly LOL makes me sooo mad. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:45 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. LOL! |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:00 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. What is silly is that |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Now you try to pretend that it was satire? |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Pretend, did you not read the OP??? |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Wow! |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:23 PM Response to Reply #39 |
72. Have you read your own signature? |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. My advice: move along. Some of our friends here have nothing constructive to offer. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Advice taken. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. that's nothing... |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Disgraceful. People like that are a blight on the party. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Yikes. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:45 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. My OP is not satire. If anyone thinks it is, they are mistaken. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. "My" candidate? |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:41 PM Response to Reply #43 |
60. and your smears are going to make ppl vote hillary? *retch* |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 08:23 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. I hope not. I'm not a Hillary supporter by any means. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:52 PM Response to Reply #36 |
63. well, come to find out i did slightly misread his post... |
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SteppingRazor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
5. At this point... |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Well, yeah...... |
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oasis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. Style over substance. (eom) |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. That certainly describes this thread, especially the post that started it. |
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FredScuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
12. Just as Reagan started his campaign in Philadelphia, MS with an appeal to "state's rights" |
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MNDemNY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Quite so.. |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. "You, you --- REPUBLICAN you! " One good part of the primary |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. LOL! Indeed. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:48 PM Response to Reply #15 |
44. As well it should. "Republican" should be considered a slur. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
23. Yes, I'm really put off by Obama's fact-free tirades against welfare queens |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. Obama wants everyone to love him.... |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:20 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. If that's anybody... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 07:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
66. He didn't even know his biological |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
27. I think you missed your history lessons. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:24 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. I don't need history lessons on Reagan - I'm one of those baby boomer geezers who was there. |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:27 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. Howso? |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. I think that Obama's campaign strategy is similar to Reagan's. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 08:36 PM Response to Reply #38 |
69. I do too..his political |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:04 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. I think that they are trying to outflank Hillary by presenting Obama as more conservative. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:15 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. Turns out ..The Hippies were Right! |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:26 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. I hope it doesn't work. A lot of folks seem to like the right-wing flavor. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 09:42 PM Response to Reply #73 |
74. Masochists...they haven't gotten |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:56 PM Response to Original message |
48. lol, but not in a good way |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 05:58 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Nah, I don't hate him. I see what he's doing and why. I'm just disappointed. |
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ihelpu2see (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
51. LAUGHABLE, I have followed along closely and Obama is DEFINITELY NOT |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-09-07 06:09 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. I think that your definition of "ultra progressive" is different from mine. |
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CyberPieHole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 02:39 AM Response to Original message |
76. Obama seems desperate to say ANYTHING and pander to anyone who will listen... |
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Phunktified (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 03:04 AM Response to Original message |
77. Yea, I'm confused by Obama too |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 03:05 AM Response to Original message |
78. Well played. Audacious, but the results speak for themselves. |
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