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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 09:40 AM Original message |
'Mutts like me' - Obama shows ease discussing race |
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jcla (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. We mutts are proud... |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. AA/NA/Scottish/Irish mutt here and hopeful that discussions of race in the U.S. will improve! nt |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Scots-Irish/Swedish/German mutt here |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Hear! Hear! |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. There were few purebreeds |
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bagrman (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
32. The pure breeds seem to give us the most trouble, inbred and bad hips ya know. |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. If you're not Queen Elizabeth, we're ALL mutts! |
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MrsBrady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. actually, the royal family is not "pure bred" |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I mean mutts as in not being able to trace our lineage back as far |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
36. actually the farther back you trace it, the more muttley we are! |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Oh please, that woman is 1/2 German.... |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Queen Elizabeth is quite a mutt herself |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:04 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. More than German and Danish. |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:13 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. Another great link...thank you. |
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PfcHammer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. That whole thing is a fraud. They're German with a name change |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
8. I call this, grabbing the bull by the horns. Good for Obama. |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I love it --- Proud Mutt here |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. We should all celebrate in our differences while at the same time never letting those differences |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:49 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. You gotta love those census records. |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. Right you are ~ lots of Mutts |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 02:51 PM Response to Reply #22 |
47. right you are ~ I wish our ancestors could talk to us |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. My pound pup are holding their heads a little higher these days knowing that mutts like them, |
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peacetalksforall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
10. If knowing your ancestry eases bigotry, let's do it. And if it eases, maybe it erases.. |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
11. I come from a long line of proud mutts. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
14. Didn't someone once call the U.S. a "nation of mongrels"? I believe meant as an insult but |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Follow-up. I believe it was Hitler, when Germany declared war on U.S. in 1941. |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
15. Aren't the only truly verifiable "purebreds" left in America the ones that are actually inbred? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
19. He's going to be able to do a lot on this issue |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
20. This is at least the third mutt thread |
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Samurai_Writer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
21. Another proud mutt here! |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
23. German Swiss English Scotch Irish |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. English, Welsh, Swiss, German, Irish, Scot, with a touch of Francais. |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #27 |
40. In other words, a EuroAnglomutt. |
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eowyn_of_rohan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Yesiree! and who knows-there may be something else in there |
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Wetzelbill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. another mutt in the house right here. |
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Porschenut1066 (348 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
26. Mutts. Isn't that what America really is one big melting pot of people |
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GinaMaria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. I consider myself one! |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:21 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. The beauty of creationism is that pesky genetic fact doesn't exist. |
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iamahaingttta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
35. I have just about the most Irish name imaginable... |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
37. Proud Latin mutt here. |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
38. I am inordinately proud of my claim to Mutt-dom |
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peruban (888 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I purposfully look for cultural diversity when I consider dating. |
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StarryNite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
41. Mutts rule! |
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clspector (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
42. A modest proposal . . . |
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bluestateboomer (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
43. Mutts Rule! |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
44. Yeah, I know Mr. President-elect, but you're also one smart dude. |
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ailsagirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
45. I guess we're all "mutts" but he's a thoroughbred in every other way |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
48. Obama may be a "mutt" but he's pure CLASS. nt |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-08-08 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
49. Hybrid Vigor, baby! |
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