If I hear ONE MORE CANDIDATE talk about their humble beginnings, I think I'll PUKE!!!!

Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:33 PM
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If I hear ONE MORE CANDIDATE talk about their humble beginnings, I think I'll PUKE!!!!

:grr:

:puke:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

:banghead:

GIVE US ALL A BREAK!!!

Most of America (except the 'born rich' types like *) grew up struggling!

Yes, some more than others but we all struggled!!

Gheesh!!

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MADem

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:36 PM
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1. Your link is to a live feed. Why don't you just say what you mean? Who are you pissed off at?

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:40 PM
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2. I know what my live feed is to and that it's live. That's why I posted it.....

Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 05:42 PM by Breeze54

it's been going on all day!!

First it was Bill; then Huck and now Mrs. Obama!

It's tiresome and last night it was ALL the DEM candidates (that were allowed to debate!)

It's already been posted on the board... what's going on on C-Span today - right now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2611311

Catch Up! :hi:

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MADem

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:17 PM
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10. I thought you wanted to gripe about humble beginnings. That's what your OP discussed. NT

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Ian David

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:41 PM
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3. But none were the grandson of a goat-ball licker. n/t

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:43 PM
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4. Well, yes, on the Dem side... not sure about the rethugs though!

:rofl:

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Ian David

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:44 PM
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5. McCain was born so poor, he actually once had to eat supermarket cavair. n/t

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:49 PM
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7. lmfao! You're on a roll, Ian!

:rofl:

:hi:

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Ian David

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Mon Jan-07-08 10:39 AM
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23. Oh, sure. make fun all you want. But as someone who has had to eat caviar without capers...

my heart bleeds for McCain.

We'll see if you laugh, when one day your family has to eat their caviar with crackers instead of melba toasts.

It'll make the day they banned Iranian caviar, and we had to get by on Russian caviar, look like a limo ride through the park.

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Buns_of_Fire

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:13 PM
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8. Didn't Fred get his start on a little 5,000-watt radio station in Fresno?

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TwilightGardener

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Sun Jan-06-08 05:45 PM
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6. Let's face it, nobody was born to a shoeless sharecropper or welfare queen.

Mittens and McCain were priveleged, but the rest were various shades of middle class. Boring, but true.

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amandabeech

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:28 PM
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11. What do you consider middle class?

Certainly, Sen. Clinton was middle class--she grew up in a nice (or what was nice then) Chicago suburb.

Edwards's dad was a blue collar worker in what was probably a series of non-union mills. His mom did what she could. His start sounds like mine, and believe me, my family wasn't middle class back then. It sounds as though his father eventually got to the top of the blue collar heap, and probably achieved a lower middle class situation at some point.

I'm less clear on how much money was around with Obama, but his grandfather was a furniture salesperson. My guess would be lower middle class with aspirations since his Mom went to college.

What's your background?

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TwilightGardener

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:36 PM
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14. Neither of my parents went to college or made much money, so I suppose

I'm working-class--grew up in typical modest middle-America suburbs. Financial struggles at times, but had a roof over my head, and clothes on my butt, and a stable loving home, and food in my belly, and presents at Christmas, and color TV, and my own room. I don't feel that I was ever at a disadvantage in life.

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Xipe Totec

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:16 PM
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9. I think you misunderstood the reference

They all have Humble beginnings

Humble Oil and Refining Company was founded by Ross Sterling in 1909. Sterling later became Governor of Texas. Of course, Humble Oil became Exxon in the middle 1960's and the Exxon Production Research building on Buffalo Speedway bears the cornerstone reading "Humble Oil and Refining Company".

http://www.humble-inc.com/humblehistory.htm

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Breeze54

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:22 PM
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34. But only on the * side!

But not that idiot son, *! He couldn't find any of that oil and he lived in Texas!! :rofl:

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undeterred

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:29 PM
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12. I had humble beginnings and I'm still humble

and my haircuts cost $12 at one of those fast shops.

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Kip Humphrey

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:33 PM
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13. You're Right... I was born rich and will die poor because I choose to live my life with integrity

and never bought into the axioms, "Do unto others to get ahead" and "You have to give up your principles if you're going to make it in this world".

My vote goes to Kucinich. If the Texas Democratic Party succeeds in keeping Dennis off the Texas primary ballot, I will vote for Edwards.

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begin_within

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:36 PM
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15. Here's the debate about humble beginnings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:39 PM
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17. "Once a week we ate our own farts for the fibre "

:rofl:

Thanks! :hi:

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The Magistrate

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:37 PM
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16. It Is Traditional, Ma'am

"He was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands!"

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:41 PM
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18. Yeah but it's getting as old as wanting 'change'!

Like that is somehow unique after 8 years of * ! :grr:

We all want change.... yesterday!

:hi:

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The Magistrate

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:46 PM
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20. Oh, Quite, Ma'am

'Conservative, n.: In politics, a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who want to replace these with new ones."

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Breeze54

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:48 PM
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21. Great quote, The Magistrate

Thank for that one! :D

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The Magistrate

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:56 PM
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22. From Mr. Bierce, Ma'am

His 'Devil's Dictionary' is a pearl beyond price....

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Virginia Dare

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Sun Jan-06-08 06:44 PM
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19. Rich guys are okay..

as long as they're FDR or JFK.

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JVS

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Mon Jan-07-08 10:40 AM
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24. My daddy was a poor Virginia turd-miner

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youthere

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Mon Jan-07-08 11:33 AM
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25. But did you know...

that John Edward's father was a struglling mill worker? :evilgrin:

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Breeze54

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Mon Jan-07-08 11:51 AM
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27. *choke*

:spray:

:rofl:

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SammyWinstonJack

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:20 PM
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32. What's so funny about that?

:shrug:

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bdamomma

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Mon Jan-07-08 11:35 AM
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26. It's their way of relating to the masses.

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Javaman

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Mon Jan-07-08 11:56 AM
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28. Humble beginnings? I'll tell ya about humble beginnings...

I had to walk 3 miles to school in chest high snow, backwards and that was just summer! And that was when school was in session 9 days a week! You don't want to even hear about the winter...but I'll tell you anyway. We had so much snow, that they only way to get in the house was through the chimney! And if we couldn't find the chimney, we had to find a wolfs den to keep warm!

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Breeze54

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:21 PM
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33. lmao!

:P

Are you my long lost father?

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Alter Ego

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:26 PM
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36. Let me tell you something sonny

Edited on Mon Jan-07-08 12:26 PM by Alter Ego

I ate dirt every day of the week--in good weeks.

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Javaman

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Mon Jan-07-08 02:40 PM
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40. Meh, you were lucky to have dirt!

we had to make our own dirt out of big rocks! And those rocks we had to carry on our backs 3 times a day to have enough for each meal!

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progressoid

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Mon Jan-07-08 03:07 PM
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41. Wolves den! Lucky bastard.

If we found wolf poop to keep us warm it was a good day.

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PsN2Wind

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Mon Jan-07-08 03:12 PM
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42. My family was not only poor but also large

There were six of us kids, two girls and four boys. There was never enough money, so at Christmas the girls would each get a cheap doll, in order for us boys to have something to play, with our parents cut the bottoms out of our pants pockets.

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Naturyl

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:05 PM
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29. I was born poor and I stayed poor... and you know what?

I don't want to get rich. Yep, that's right, I said I don't want to get rich. Is that even possible in America? To lack a desire to have a lot of money? The media would have us believe it isn't.

Actually having enough money to get by would be nice. But I have no desire whatsoever for any more than 30-40k per year. That would be a fortune to me - more than enough. Right now I make 7k on SSI.

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:15 PM
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30. yes but most of america has not achieved what they have achieved.

doesnt bother me.

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Breeze54

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:19 PM
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31. Huh?

:crazy:

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:24 PM
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35. well most people who come from humble roots, make it to middle class america at best

(not their fault, the odds are highly stacked against people becoming wealthy)

the candidates have clearly moved far away from their roots, so it makes sense to be that they allude to their beginnings.

they just want us to remember that they were not always wealthy.

i dont see the problem with that.

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La Lioness Priyanka

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Mon Jan-07-08 01:48 PM
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39. i was also only referring to the dems. i havent watched a single republican debate

because i prefer to NOT puke

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:28 PM
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37. As Bob Dylan said about politicians..

�Now, the man on the stand he wants my vote,
He's a-runnin' for office on the ballot note.
He's out there preachin' in front of the steeple,
Tellin' me he loves all kinds-a people.
(He's eatin' bagels
He's eatin' pizza
He's eatin' chitlins
He's eatin' bullshit!)�

Bob Dylan

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Breeze54

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Mon Jan-07-08 12:56 PM
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38. That's a keeper!

:P

Thanks for posting that! :hi:

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autorank

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Mon Jan-07-08 03:25 PM
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43. Here's one for my ideal candidate, his theme song.

This guys life was more than a poor boy who made it big. His life made him so ugly...

GROWN SO UGLY
anonymous

I got up this morning
And I put on my shoes
I tied my shoes
Then I washed my face
I went to the mirror
For to comb my head
I made a move
Didn't know what to do
I tipped way forward
Got to break and run

Baby, this ain't me
Baby, this ain't me
Got so ugly I don't even know myself

I left Angola
1964
Go walking down my street
Knock on my baby's door
My baby come out
She asks me who I am
And I say, honey,
Don't you know your man?
She said my man's been gone
Since 1942
And I'll tell you Mr. Ugly,
He didn't look like you

Black Keys
Cover Captain Beefheart who covered another guy.

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