Raven
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:13 PM
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Imagine having to sneak behind your parents' backs to listen to the POTUS. |
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I daresay, we're fucked as a country if this has traction with anyone other than the wingnuts.
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:15 PM
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1. Thankfully, many children of wingnuts know their parents are screwy |
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by the time they are in High School.
Of course, some of these kids turn out nuttier than their parents, too!
What can you do? Censor parents?
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gateley
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:16 PM
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2. I think it's only the wingnuts. Everyone else is incredulous this is happening. nt |
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:20 PM
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3. Can you picture some poor kid huddled under the covers in his bed |
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with earphones? I used to do that so I could listen to Arnie "WOO WOO" Ginsberg on WBZ... a forbidden thing in my house.
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gateley
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:24 PM
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4. But I bet you wouldn't have had to do that if it was the President giving a speech! |
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This is just fucking in-sane. Truly, I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode or something.
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Raven
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:30 PM
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6. No, I wouldn't have. In my life, I have listened to Ike, |
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Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, the Bush clan, Carter, Clinton...I have learned something from every one of them. I guess the next thing these schools will do is leave Obama out of the history books.
BTW, I had a far right wing builder/contractor thank me and tell me today that he is finally getting back on his feet thanks to "the stimulus that your President put in place." He meant it too.
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:45 PM
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9. Ditto. And regardless of who was in office, whether my parents voted |
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for him or not, there was respect and acceptance that this person was the leader of our country. (It wasn't until Reagan won my mom over and my dad and I thought she was nuts, that any dissention occurred in front of the TV :))
That is WONDERFUL about the builder -- is he looking at Obama through different eyes now?
It's been my hope (fantasy?) that those opposed will benefit from Obama's actions, think -- hey, maybe this guy ISN'T so bad, then slowly come around to supporting him.
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Fri Sep-04-09 10:40 PM
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15. Thank you for that little ray of hope. |
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The wingers do love their money so maybe some of them will be able to put 2 and 2 together once they see their own finances improving.
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:30 PM
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7. No, I wouldn't have. In my life, I have listened to Ike, |
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Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, the Bush clan, Carter, Clinton...I have learned something from every one of them. I guess the next thing these schools will do is leave Obama out of the history books.
BTW, I had a far right wing builder/contractor thank me and tell me today that he is finally getting back on his feet thanks to "the stimulus that your President put in place." He meant it too.
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:29 PM
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5. I remember Arnie. I've got a picture of me taken with him somewhere around here. nt |
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Fri Sep-04-09 06:31 PM
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8. And look, we both survuved crazy Arnie! |
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Fri Sep-04-09 07:15 PM
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10. Well, whenever I hear someone say, "Woo woo," I start to do the Mashed Potato. |
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Aside from that, I'm fine.
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Fri Sep-04-09 10:11 PM
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11. Obama will be as attractive as a girlie magazine to a straight boy. |
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Sounds good to me. The wingnut strategy will backfire. If momma and daddy don't want the kids to see it, they will find a way, because it MUST BE GOOD. :D
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Fri Sep-04-09 10:13 PM
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12. My parents are conservatives, there is no guarantee that these wingnuts will keep |
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their kids from becoming liberal or even apolitical anyway. I sure didn't listen to my parents...we have been fighting over politics since I was 17!
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Fri Sep-04-09 11:00 PM
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16. My father's whole family is conservative, and so was he. My mother wasn't |
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very political, though she did date Ronald Reagan briefly in Iowa the 1930s (true story). (She voted against him in both presidential elections, though.)
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Fri Sep-04-09 11:06 PM
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17. OMG, now that is an incredible story. Did she say what Ronnie was like? |
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Sat Sep-05-09 12:30 AM
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19. No, but Grandma did. She said "Ronnie was a nice boy, but he |
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wasn't very smart." She also told me she was glad that they didn't have a long-term relationship, because, as she said, she always wanted smart grandchildren.
(Mom was a pretty blonde 17-year-old waitress in a coffee shop thet "Dutch" used to frequent when he was a sports commentator in Des Moines. He was, I think, about 9 years older than she at the time.)
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Fri Sep-04-09 10:19 PM
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13. Next, they'll be listening that dadgum rock-n-roll music! |
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Fri Sep-04-09 10:22 PM
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14. I had to sneak around |
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Fri Sep-04-09 11:12 PM
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18. I was the child of an |
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extreme wingnut. My daddy was a card carrying Bircher. By age 7 I was questioning the vile, vicious BS he spewed. By 10 I had no doubts.
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