What were you doing in the early 1960's?

[Major Nikon]

[onehandle]

1. All teen-age girls who volunteer for their families party preference years before they can vote...

Are EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!

Right?

She was a Democrat before her teens were even over.

Unlike Elizabeth Warren, who was a Republican into her 40s and Bernie Sanders who has been a 'Democrat' for about five minutes, and will not say if he will remain one.

[leftofcool]

3. Apparently

[BlueMTexpat]

28. Not all.

ONLY Hillary.

[noamnety]

41. "She was a Democrat before her teens were even over. "

And yet she was still volunteering for a republican and attended their convention at age 20.

"She might have been the only 20-year-old in America who worked on the antiwar presidential campaign of Senator Eugene McCarthy in New Hampshire that winter and for the hawkish Republican congressman Melvin Laird in Washington that summer."

She got an early start on the weather vane. I'll give her that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. "But, but, but he never did anything......"

Good post.

[leftofcool]

4. What has he done for AA's in the last 30 years?

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. I just knew it.

[Recursion]

5. Like most of the party and the country, I wasn't born yet

Christ this is depressing. The last thing the party needs to do is re-litigate the 60s. People absolutely have to let that decade go

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. When all you have is a bat the whole world looks like a pinyata./nt

[Recursion]

13. Truer words, DSB...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

21. Lord, save us from the monotony of repetitious memes./nt

[kristopher]

12. OK. 1/2 of Clinton’s 2014 Speaking Fees Came From Groups Also Lobbying Congress

Let's talk about this:

1/2 of Clinton’s $10M in 2014 Speaking Fees Came From Groups Also Lobbying Congress
http://time.com/3889577/hillary-clinton-paid-speeches-lobbyists-influence/

She was already running for President in 2014.

I think this is a disqualifying act for any candidate, what do you think?

[Recursion]

16. I think I'm voting for Sanders in the absence of a miraculous O'Malley comeback

But I'm certainly not happy about it, and he's only marginally the lesser of two evils.

[panader0]

58. Santayana:

Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist George Santayana is known to be the originator of the quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

[Agschmid]

60. Yup.

[Tarc]

6. So it's "I was doing this since day 1" vs "I had the courage to change"

Both arrived in the same place, so really this type of argument is a wash, as it is for most voters. Campaigning on what a woman did as a teenager in ~1965 is beyond desperation time.

[pdsimdars]

33. A pattern emerges

She is always on the wrong side of issues when it matters and when the political winds shift, all of a sudden, she "evolves".
And Bernie is always on the right side of the issues.
It's all on videos.
You think it's just some kind of "luck" that she is always wrong?

[Tarc]

44. Yes, a pattern called "progress"

[snooper2]

8. We need somebody born in the 60's not somebody getting their first piece LOL

Sadly we are stuck with aging boomers running for President...

Hopefully this will be the last cycle

[livetohike]

19. Technically Sanders is not a Boomer as he was born

before WWII and the boomer years of birth are 1946-1964. So obviously he is not of the boomer generation.

[snooper2]

23. Great worse than I thought LOL

[livetohike]

26. I know. I wish we had some younger candidates who

could step up. It will be interesting to see the VP candidate list

[Trajan]

52. You have a specific problem with older Americans like Bernie?

Isn't that known as Ageism?

I can't say I've seen such a blatant example from a supporter ....

Hmmm

[snooper2]

53. no, just ones that want to be president...Obama came in fresh and in tune with people

We don't need lifers doing their one final stint as President when they should be enjoying the beach.

Probably will end up voting for Bernie here in Texas though- He is the only one that has a chance at beating trump.

[Trajan]

55. Well .. that response says a lot about who you are as a person

I'd almost prefer you didn't vote for Bernie ... I'm ashamed that we might vote for the same person ...

In the meantime ... Goodbye ...

[snooper2]

56. mkay

later!

[Hoyt]

9. Have a hard time taking anyone in white shoes and pants seriously. The police are being rather nice

to him.



Now here's a protest, and the man narrating it has endorsed Hillary Clinton:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/politics/selma-50-years-john-lewis-bridge-anniversary/#

[panader0]

57. Was it after Labor Day?!?!

[Hoyt]

61. LOL. I'll have to check, that would disqualify him under the Constitution.

[UglyGreed]

10. unbroken chain

[jillan]

39. I have never noticed that chain before. My respect for Bernie just went up even more.

Thanks so much for posting that.

[Downwinder]

11. ..

[NurseJackie]

14. Silly.

And a bit desperate. (Oh well!)

[brooklynite]

15. What were you doing in the 1980s?

Liberal favorite Elizabeth Warren admits she was a Republican

Elizabeth Warren, a favorite of the left, admitted that she was once a Republican.

In an interview with The Daily Beast released on Tuesday, Warren, 62, who recently began a bid to unseat Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) admitted that up into her early 40s she was a Republican.

"I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore," Warren said. "I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/189657--liberal-favorite-elizabeth-warren-admits-she-was-a-republican

Apparently some early history can't be forgiven...

[livetohike]

20. Exactly. Bears repeating. n/t

[UglyGreed]

24. deflection

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Actually, I wish she was running.

but as a senator she's doing just fine.

[DrDan]

17. pathetic . . . dessparation is setting in

[kgnu_fan]

22. Which side are you on....

Which Side Are You On? Natalie Merchant

Which Side Are You On Florence Reece Original

[JustAnotherGen]

25. I wasn't even a twinkle in my mom's eye in the 1960's

But my dad was behaving in a way that when I turned 15 or there about - he told me he was being punished by having a good looking daughter!

[BlueMTexpat]

29. What were YOU doing?

In 1964, I joined the Peace Corps.

I also support Hillary Clinton, so that must mean that anything I have ever done in my life is EVIL.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

30. Puttinng in my 4 years in the marines.

And, in the process becoming more of a socialist and anti-militarist.

[Nonhlanhla]

31. Educate yourselves about what Hillary was up to in the 60s instead of smearing her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?mwrsm=Facebook

[Orsino]

36. This does not contradict the OP.

Clinton's onetime love for mean, stupid Goldwaterism should be considered in context with her conversion to liberalism and, eventually, neoliberalism.

But rather than dwelling on particular phases of her career, our takeaway from the OP ought to focus on the consistent activism of her opponent on behalf of the victims of conservatism.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. As a Democrat since birth I appreciate conversions

I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Luke 15 : 7

[Nonhlanhla]

49. Well, I'm sorry

that you don't do nuance.

Because that's often where the truth lies, and not in cheap shots like the OP.

[Orsino]

50. Nuance is precisely my point. n/t

[In_The_Wind]

32. Working part time while attending high school.

I hiked up Stone Mountain and rode the tram down.

[pdsimdars]

34. It MATTERS

Where you took your stand tells about your character, who you are. If you always seem to be on the right side of the issues from day one, it MEANS something.
And if you always seem to be on the wrong side of issues, until the political winds change and then you "evolve". . that says something else about your character.

[Starry Messenger]

35. I wasn't alive.

Not everyone is a boomer.

[bigwillq]

37. Not born yet (nt)

[nevergiveup]

38. This really gets old

In 1964 my first presidential vote was for Barry Goldwater. My parents and family were Eisenhower Republicans. I have not voted for a Republican for president since and I have not missed an election. At the moment I am on the fence but leaning a little towards voting for Bernie in the primary but will support Hillary if she wins the nomination. I would be more pro-Bernie if someone could convince me he is not politically in a general election another George McGovern. Been there, done that and don't want to go through it again.

I consider myself fairly far left and I feel this post is old and tired, silly and counter productive.

[virgogal]

40. Having kids.

[6chars]

43. better header for OP

[jehop61]

46. Bravo

You had the courage to post what I was thinking. Bernie spent some very productive years playing hippie. I myself was having babies and helping hubby get an education.

[unapatriciated]

51. Sounds like you were doing the same thing that many of us were doing.

Unfortunately a lot of our hubbies left us in poverty raising our babies. They enjoyed the benefits of the education we paid for with a younger, childless woman.

I should have dropped acid instead.

[Major Nikon]

47. Yes, something else. You forgot blaming child rape victims for their own rape

Hillary Clinton is known as a champion of women and girls, but one woman who says she was raped as a 12-year-old in Arkansas doesn’t think Hillary deserves that honor. This woman says Hillary smeared her and used dishonest tactics to successfully get her attacker off with a light sentence—even though, she claims, Clinton knew he was guilty.

The victim in the 1975 sexual abuse case that became Clinton’s first criminal defense case as a 27-year-old lawyer has only spoken to the media once since her attack, a contested, short interaction with a reporter in 2008, during Clinton’s last presidential campaign run. Now 52, she wants to speak out after hearing Clinton talk about her case on newly discovered audio recordings from the 1980s, unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon and made public this week.

In a long, emotional interview with The Daily Beast, she accused Clinton of intentionally lying about her in court documents, going to extraordinary lengths to discredit evidence of the rape, and later callously acknowledging and laughing about her attackers’ guilt on the recordings.

“Hillary Clinton took me through Hell,” the victim said. The Daily Beast agreed to withhold her name out of concern for her privacy as a victim of sexual assault.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/20/exclusive-hillary-clinton-took-me-through-hell-rape-victim-says.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. Grade school and high school for the first seven years.

Then attended college full time while working part time for the rest.

[dmosh42]

54. In the USN, waiting for Vietnam to start!

[Agschmid]

59. I wasn't born.