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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:36 PM Original message |
The "excesses of the '60s and '70s." |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. 16% unemployment in Pgh. in 1983 |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. When I hear the word "excesses," I think of the '80s. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. me too and coke. |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. me too |
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iamjoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Exactly |
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Red Zelda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. And deficits, too |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. And didn't Reagan fund the freedom fighters |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. yes indeed, Osama bin Laden = Freedom Fighter in Reaganspeak |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Not precisely.......... |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. and isn't brezinski an advisor to barack? nt |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Well, I was close. :-) |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 05:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. How prescient of Carter |
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PDJane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 05:40 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You are quite correct.........typo, sorry. |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Excess of war spending |
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William769 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
6. K&R! |
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Stop Cornyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Haven't you read his biography and his discussion of his personal excesses? |
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floridablue (996 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
11. Wasn't it RR who |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Yes, it was Reagan who ignored AIDS and let it go rampant. |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. No Obamite has been able to explain what Obama meant |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
47. many people who didn't live through the 60's and 70's |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
15. k and r |
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2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. Lee Harvey Oswald was a right-wing extremist? Sirhan Sirhan was a right-wing kook? nt |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Please read my post -- I state many. |
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2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. James Earl Ray was a petty thief who had escaped jail, The 4 people killed at Kent State were |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. And the Republican Party of Nixon and Reagan offered |
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2rth2pwr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 06:38 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Yes, hate. But what evidence is there that he was political? nt |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:47 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. My experience living through the events. |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 10:25 AM Response to Reply #29 |
42. Bingo! James Earl Ray was a direct product of what Reagan called "optimism" |
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Perry Logan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. The country is fighting for its life--and Obama is openly parroting right-wing rhetoric. |
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ClericJohnPreston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Oh, but with such flowery prose |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 09:18 AM Response to Reply #18 |
38. I don't believe Obama has a chance of winning the nomination without disgruntled republicans |
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goodgd_yall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. Since Obama followed up |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 10:28 AM Response to Reply #19 |
43. so, social programs are bad now? That's what I was afraid he was saying when |
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ClericJohnPreston (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
21. k&r |
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Hatchling (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'm alive today because of those excesses. |
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LulaMay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. OBAMA:"I didn't come of age in the battles of the 60's. I'm not as invested in them" |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 09:12 AM Response to Reply #25 |
37. Maybe he's a South Park Democrat. |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #25 |
41. No? Then how does he represent himself as MLK - if he's not "invested" in his cause? |
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LulaMay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 01:48 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. Ask him. That is what he said. He isn't MLK, or RFK or JFK. Only MLK was MLK. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. When MLKjr |
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LulaMay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 03:42 AM Response to Reply #50 |
56. It was the battles of the 60's he said he was not so invested in. That is the Civil Rights movement |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-18-08 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
27. Brilliant JD..... |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 12:58 AM Response to Original message |
33. K&R -- thanks!! |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
35. whatever the perceived "excesses" of the 60s and 70s . . . |
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 10:16 AM Response to Reply #35 |
40. They actually do, Bush being "Reagan's Son" accoding to pundits |
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Karmadillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
36. K & R |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
39. you're stuck in the past |
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Usrename (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
44. Bravo! |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
46. The sixties did have excesses. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. I love the smell of napalm in the morning! |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. It's been suggested that there's still a culture war over the sixties. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. Yes, that has been suggested. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 06:36 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. LOL! I was born here. |
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Kat45 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 07:24 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. The right wing has been fighting against the sixties ever since |
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CRH (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
52. Excellent Post, also Iran Contra was a part of the Reagan victory in 1980, ... |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
55. Obama should explain his off-the-cuff comments |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-20-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. his words were pretty clear |
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