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Leftist78
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:10 PM Original message |
How did you become politicized? |
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Warren Stupidity
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Vietnam war. |
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Vadem
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Sat Dec-09-06 08:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. I'm there with you, too! I used to drag my two young sons to.. |
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displacedtexan
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. The mean kids on the grade school playground, shouting... |
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Mikey929
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
40. Kids |
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displacedtexan
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:36 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I raised a bleeding heart liberal daughter. |
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Mikey929
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Mon Dec-11-06 12:24 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Thanks |
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Comicstripper
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. The 2000 election. |
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KarenS
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. I was fairly apolitical until I watched the Gore/Bush debates,,, |
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Lucky Luciano
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
5. I was always right of center because I wanted to make a lot |
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TheCowsCameHome
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
6. RW talk radio, and how terribly hateful and bitter the right is, for one thing. |
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Leftist78
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. That's interesting |
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BlueManDude
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
7. Hill-Thomas hearings. n/m |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
60. Interesting. Say more about that. nt |
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booisblu
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
8. Oddly enough, |
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Lucky Luciano
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Take the blue pill and you will find the truth and never be |
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LWolf
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. My first memories: |
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chieftain
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
11. By sitting at my family's kitchen table and listening to |
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havocmom
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:52 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Same for me, but in 1960 it hit locally- we had moved and Dad put off registering |
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chieftain
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I love the story about your Dad. Speaking of international |
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havocmom
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Sat Dec-09-06 07:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Made even more tense at our house due to big brother on ship |
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seabeyond
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
12. i have always been interested in surrent events/politics. impeachment |
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Smaze
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. When i began to observe that power is the intent behind most government affairs |
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Not Me
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Sat Dec-09-06 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
15. Two words: Ronald Reagan |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:20 AM Response to Reply #15 |
61. Reagan screwed us. |
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undeterred
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
17. 16 months of unemployment/no health insurance during early Bush admin |
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Leftist78
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Nothing like |
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undeterred
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I was a Democrat before that |
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Gregorian
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:24 PM Response to Original message |
19. Nixon. But Bush pushed me over the edge. |
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QMPMom
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
21. The Vietnam War, My Lai Massacre and Nixon. |
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LeftishBrit
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Sat Dec-09-06 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. Maggie Thatcher |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:27 AM Response to Reply #22 |
63. She...got rid of free school milk? |
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election_2004
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Sat Dec-09-06 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
24. Conservative Dems and wingnuts bashing homosexuality |
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Sat Dec-09-06 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
25. The Vietnam war, the Kent State shootings, Nixon and Watergate. |
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antiimperialist
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Sat Dec-09-06 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
28. After reading my dad's old Dominican magazines |
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proud patriot
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Sat Dec-09-06 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
29. When the USSC betrayed the Constitution in 2000 |
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Debs
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Sun Dec-10-06 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
30. I have told this story before |
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SmellsLikeDeanSpirit
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Sun Dec-10-06 05:55 AM Response to Original message |
31. 2000, I was 14. |
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Eurobabe
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Sun Dec-10-06 06:28 AM Response to Original message |
32. When fuckface stole 2000. |
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Odin2005
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Mon Dec-11-06 02:53 AM Response to Original message |
33. Iraq. |
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orleans
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Mon Dec-11-06 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
34. a high school teacher took us on a fieldtrip to chicago where we attended |
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Eugene
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Mon Dec-11-06 04:36 AM Response to Original message |
35. My father was politically active locally |
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NMMNG
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Mon Dec-11-06 05:24 AM Response to Original message |
36. Dumbya got elected |
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AtomicKitten
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Mon Dec-11-06 05:26 AM Response to Original message |
37. Vietnam lit the fire - |
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welshTerrier2
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
38. protest music |
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Vinca
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
39. I remember watching the 1968 Democratic Convention on |
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crim son
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
42. I married a conspiracy theorist |
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mwb970
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Mon Dec-11-06 08:55 AM Response to Original message |
43. Kent State, May 4, 1970. |
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benEzra
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Tue Dec-12-06 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
45. The 1994 Feinstein gun ban... |
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hijinx87
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Tue Dec-12-06 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
46. 1981. reagan fired the air traffic controllers after they went out on strike |
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slackmaster
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Tue Dec-12-06 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
47. Unchecked destruction of natural habitat for development |
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Vidar
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Tue Dec-12-06 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
48. A cop tried to run down a good friend. I helped said friend run |
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mohinoaklawnillinois
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Tue Dec-12-06 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
49. I always was. Politics were discussed in my family around the |
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IA_Seth
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Tue Dec-12-06 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
50. General Clark |
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MrCoffee
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Tue Dec-12-06 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
51. August 5, 1981 - St. Ronnie fired my dad. |
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littlebit
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Tue Dec-12-06 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
52. In 1990 |
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ProudDad
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Tue Dec-12-06 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
53. Bob Dylan |
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proud patriot
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Tue Dec-12-06 09:50 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. I'm so proud of you for resigning |
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janx
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Tue Dec-12-06 09:54 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. That's so sweet! |
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ProudDad
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Wed Dec-13-06 12:52 AM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Yep |
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progressive_realist
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Tue Dec-12-06 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
56. Monica-gate/Whitewater |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:25 AM Response to Reply #56 |
62. Ah, Whitewater. The scandal that wasn't. |
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aaronbees
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
58. Reagan era madness did it for me on being politicized |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
59. Bush announcing that he was going to take troops out of the DMZ. |
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More Than A Feeling
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Wed Dec-13-06 01:42 AM Response to Original message |
64. I have two, the first is social studies in elementary school |
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Upfront
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Wed Dec-13-06 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
65. When John Kennedy was elected president. |
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BlueIris
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Wed Dec-13-06 05:08 PM Response to Reply #65 |
66. Great post!! |
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Mrs. Ted Nancy
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Wed Dec-13-06 09:34 PM Response to Original message |
67. Archie Bunker and All In The Family |
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