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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:45 AM Original message |
I'm fed up with the frenzy over HRC's laugh as a political "issue"! |
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Bonobo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
1. Except it's not a natural laugh. It is a ploy. A way of denigrating people. |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I agree--if it was situationally appropriate and natural, making an issue out of it would be petty. |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:37 AM Response to Reply #3 |
33. Cause she's smarter than you can imagine |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:17 AM Response to Reply #33 |
49. I take her behavior at face value, instead of inventing or believing a rationale |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:29 AM Response to Reply #49 |
50. I hear your anger ... but again, it's your problem. HRC is on her way to victory |
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TheUniverse (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Exactly. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. I don't know her personally, and unless you do how can you know it isn't natural? |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. She "laughed" at perfectely valid, tough questions. Basically, she's imitating Wes Clark and failing |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:58 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Which questions were they? n/t |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. YOU are the one trying to excuse a candidate's feigned, inappropriate laughter. |
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terisan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:10 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Media trying to cut candidates down to their size, what they care about and comprehend-hair, |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:40 AM Response to Reply #19 |
38. What were the questions, please? n/t |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:38 AM Response to Reply #11 |
35. Forced? Not to my ears - and that's good enuf n/t |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:48 AM Response to Reply #7 |
52. Video of Hillary laughing at Mike Gravel's valid question about why she voted for Kyle Lieberman |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. What sound or effect of any candidate is not a tool? |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. what nonsense. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Hmmm |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
37. It a parody of a woman laughing at a flasher opening his raincoat. |
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hootinholler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
45. I haven't figured out if it's a put down or if it's buying time to think. |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:15 AM Response to Reply #1 |
47. it sounds like a cackle and it's insincere. like GWB, sorta. |
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Annces (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. Apart from her conservative viewpoints |
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Az (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
4. As long as our election system is the way it is, such things will matter |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
5. If a candidate is a Dem, people will nit-pick |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:57 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Gore DID sigh during that debate. It was audible. Instead of pointing out Bush's blatant lies. |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:21 AM Response to Reply #13 |
27. Yes, but were the sighs important? |
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deminks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
8. It's the "old press" at it again, laughs, sighs, screams-anything but real issues. nt |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. and if HRC doesn't laugh, she a cold, stony faced, hard hearted |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. How about she doesn't laugh at tough questions? When it's inappropriate? Is that too much to ask? |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:17 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. She laughs at the set-ups, the pettyness, the absurd hypotheticals... |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:19 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Why don't the other candidates laugh at such "absurdity" then? |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:25 AM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Less experience with it, probably. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:50 AM Response to Reply #15 |
42. Again, what were the tough questions she laughed at? |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. I think the Repubs have just begun... |
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youthere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
10. AMEN! What a stupid NON-issue. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:02 AM Response to Original message |
17. thanks. me too. |
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terisan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
20. Yes. It seems like regression to 1950s-60s when "wife" jokes were common and we were all supposd |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
21. BTW, you obviously didn't read or comprehend Rich's article. Because it didn't just lambast Clinton |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:47 AM Response to Reply #21 |
40. I'll go back and re-read Rich's piece. But I must say I was surprised he wasted |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
24. It shows how hard up the HillHaters are. |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:22 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. I'm All For The Laugh If It Helps Her Politically |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:26 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. "It is a shame ,the trivial things on which we judge our candidates." |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:28 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. If She Cans The Laugh They Will Find Something Else Wrong |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
32. Agree. Its like Dean's scream and Gore's sigh and the posters here bought the distraction |
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movonne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
34. remember the Dean scream..... |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:39 AM Response to Reply #34 |
36. If Dean had had substance and a sense of humor ... HRC does! n/t |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
39. Damn, there was a frenzy and I missed it? |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
41. Yes, but. This time it's calculated, forced, usually innappropriate and distracting |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
43. It's absolute bullshit |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
44. I think she should keep laughing - hard and often. What else to do when |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:14 AM Response to Original message |
46. Every female who grew up in a house with brothers - |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-01-07 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
48. Shorter DU: "Only WE can rip Clinton to shreds! Not *you*!!". |
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Froward69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
51. seems forced |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
53. K&R |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 06:00 AM Response to Original message |
54. They teach young republicans to make phony laughs too... |
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