proud2BlibKansan
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:48 PM
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This hate from the right goes back 50 years. Check this out: |
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:49 PM
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1. Yet we still want to be "bipartisan" with them... |
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:51 PM
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When will they ever learn?
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:51 PM
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3. My mom was afraid for him to go to Dallas. |
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And that was decades before we knew about other near misses he'd had. But like today, it was in the air.
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:53 PM
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4. I had no idea how much they hated him until he was dead |
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Then a few of our neighbors made some comments and 10 year old me was just crushed. I can still remember how very painful it was.
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:57 PM
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6. My mom and grandmother used to talk about it over my head |
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even before he was elected, iirc.
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:55 PM
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Sun Jan-09-11 11:59 PM
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:04 AM
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The internet destroyed the memory hole, yes?
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:39 AM
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:45 AM
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10. John Birch society -- still around today. |
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I was in elementary school when JFK was killed. It was a shock that we have never, ever gotten over as a country.
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:52 AM
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The wound is still fresh. Hard to believe it's been nearly 50 years.
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:56 AM
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13. The John Birchers are called "GOP Centrists" now... |
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Mon Jan-10-11 12:47 AM
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11. They hated FDR too and behaved the same way. The right wing has always been this way. nt |
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Mon Jan-10-11 08:50 AM
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15. Goes back much further than that |
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1856: A right-wing US Congressman beats a US senator with his cane. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm(Keep in mind the Republican party were the liberals in 1856)
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Mon Jan-10-11 09:10 AM
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16. Yes I should have remembered that |
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