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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:32 PM Original message |
So, compas, what is your first political memory? |
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rabs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Well, comadre, would have to say |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. My mom took us bowling because she wanted to die happy. |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. 1956. Eishenhower vs. Stevenson. My mother made us get down on our knees-- |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Wow! That must have been really interesting. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 03:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. He was a courageous ground-breaker, and for a moment you were able to actually see him, |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 07:01 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. No one seems to remember the anti-Catholic Irish bigotry in this country |
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Peace Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 10:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I remember truly foul anti-Catholic flyers circulating during the 1960 campaign. |
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ChangoLoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
3. After the 1973 coup in Chile |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:06 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. It's hard to imagine what that must have been like. |
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ChangoLoa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 05:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
20. It was a very confusing situation for a 6-7 year old. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. My mom was about that age when her father was arrested |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-21-10 09:41 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. That event would stay with you forever. Even though he lived through it, the experience |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
4. Getting concentrated free orange juice |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 11:14 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. LOL! That must have been before corn syrup went into everything, |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. First very political childhood moment featured 5th grade teacher asking the class |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 05:38 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Wowie. You know what I remember from that administration? |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 06:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Except that criminals get prosecuted... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Oh, of course! I couldn't agree more. |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. Those 2 pieces of shit Carlos Romero Barceló and Ronald Reagan winning the 1980 gubernatorial and |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. That was one bad night. I voted for the president after the race |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
18. 11 or 12 years old. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 03:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. When I wrapped up my short chat with John Perkins |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 08:13 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Whoa! I wonder if he'll still have to travel with bodyguards by then! |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-18-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. November 22nd, 1963. nt |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 10:34 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. It still doesn't seem possible. They surely slammed a door on a promising Democratic Presidency. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-19-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. My first intimation of the decadence and corruption which permeates politics in the USA. nt |
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niceypoo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
26. Meeting the governor when I was 4 |
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Downwinder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 02:55 AM Response to Original message |
27. Listening to the 1948 election returns. |
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