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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:37 PM Original message |
obama is gorbachev: discuss |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. so our government *is* about to fall...? |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. he does not have a birthmark on his forehead? |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. Where is his big nasty birthmark? |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. YOU stole my thunder...you...communist! |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
32. What can I say? Great minds think alike |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
58. Something like this?... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. Thread topic is stupid: discuss. |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:40 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes quite. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Agreed |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. expand on why this topic is stupid |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
7. No. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. Gorbachev was a risk-taker out to change society. Obama isn't. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I wouldn't say that. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. yes, what provoked me to start the thread |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
31. Gorbachev was wise enough to get out of Afghanistan. |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. It took Gorbachev several years, and he tried escalation first. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. gorbachev was fairly orthodox |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:36 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. Well said. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 10:26 AM Response to Reply #28 |
44. ah, well thanks, then |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Grab your popcorn. |
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Patsy Stone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I was in the middle of responding to that stupidity |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. what did that post say? |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. The user only had two posts... |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. If you mean is he ending the Cold War at long last, |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
19. My God, you're right! It's so obvious! |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. haha, i never said the comparison was exact |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:24 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. No, but there are similarities especially if you |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. yeah that was what i was |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:31 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Both have won a Nobel, but Obamas was early. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #21 |
40. Part of me thinks we're on the way down |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
52. Gorbachev was youngish, given the context. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
25. Managing the collapse of an empire is not a job for lightweights. |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
26. I hate threads telling me to discuss. nt |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
27. Gorbachev brought the Cold War to an end and the Communist Bloc. Hard to top that. nt |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
29. I was touring in the Soviet Union in 1990 and found some of the same invective being used about |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 04:42 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. that's fascinating |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
33. Obama is Kerensky n/t |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:24 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Let us hope. |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Down with the Kerensky Government . . |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 10:28 AM Response to Reply #36 |
45. would it be? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
35. bu$h* is dickhead: discuss |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:25 PM Original message |
I certainly hope not, but there are superficial commonalities. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
38. Russia is still there, |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 07:18 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Well, we'll see. |
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ZeitgeistObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 07:27 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. That's not history, that's a drop in the bucket. |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
37. does that mean the south is Romania? n/t |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-14-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
39. Only if your idea of "reform" is increasing the power of the corporations |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
46. Okay. |
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ThomThom (752 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
47. That would be something if he did. Hopefully it will be without gun fire. |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
48. Peanuts: Neither peas nor nuts. Discuss. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. idgi |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Rhode Island is neither a road nor is it an island. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. actually v surprised that rhode island isn't actually an island |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:08 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. Duran Duran is neither a Duran nor a Duran. |
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miscsoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. you have given me a lot to think abt |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
51. Gorbachev was a fuckup and really was way too trusting of bastards like reagan. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
53. They both like pie? |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-16-10 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
57. delete... |
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