Reply #24: Hello, I've been on DU since July, I think. Have spent way [View All]

[clydefrand]

too much time on this addiction, but I've enjoyed my stay.

My name is Fran. Husband is Clyde who sometimes reads but has never posted. We're senior citizens; both retired. I was voting before most of you were born and voting for the DEMS! Ashamedly, I will admit that I did a stupid thing and voted for a repug! Never before and never since then. Except I voted for John McCain in the primary. I figured if a republican was going to oppose Gore, I wanted to see one who had enough sense to debate and if he did win, then perhaps he wouldn't be as bad as Bush has turned out.

Born during the last term of FDR...so you can tell by that...I'm old as dirt. Was 9 months old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Go figure the age!!! :-) Listened to the radio the night of Truman's election. No TV back in those days...at least not in my home. That was my first memory of anything political, but I did learn that Southerns were Democrats. What in the hell has happened in the South??? I just can't understand it.

Educated at Radford College and again at Radford University in Virginia. Taught school for 32 years...first as a chemistry/biology teacher. Then 7th and 6th grade Science; afterwards 4th and then back to 6th grade and finally retired in '96 after teaching 4th grade again.

So glad we have John Kerry supporters with whom I can share a few comments once in a while and read interesting posts of others.