bluestateguy
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Mon Mar-08-10 02:55 AM
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Who was the last Democratic president that they DIDN'T call a socialist? |
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Who? Maybe Grover Cleveland?
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Ken Burch
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Mon Mar-08-10 03:05 AM
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1. If not Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson. |
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Edited on Mon Mar-08-10 03:07 AM by Ken Burch
Nobody EVER called Wilson a "Red"-especially after he let his Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer(who was trying to run for president and called himself "The Fighting Quaker, while his opponents called him "The Quaking Fighter")arrest and/or deport virtually the entire U.S. left.
To say nothing of the insane, pointless war for corporate profit that Wilson got us into in Europe.
Then again, Wilson was also a hard-line segregationist, unenthusiastic about women's suffrage, and a brutal opponent of the labor movement.
(In other words, The DLC's "dream candidate".)
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RC
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Mon Mar-08-10 07:44 AM
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2. We need to take back the label "Socialist" |
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We are social animals, after all.
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Clio the Leo
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Mon Mar-08-10 08:30 AM
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Mon Mar-08-10 10:00 AM
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4. Since they were calling him that after he just achieved an overwhelming victory |
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They are 1) just name-calling and 2) implying that their fellow Americans voted for socialism
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