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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 01:59 PM Original message |
How are vacuous buzzwords like "change" and "hope" to be implemented? |
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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. Getting Bush out of office will be change. Any Democrat will be change. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ahhh, another superior commentator telling us how jaw-dropping stupid... |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 06:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. let me see if my memory helps me here ... ah. The same way |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Oh, my |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Came across it here |
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incapsulated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Thank you! n/t |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. Idiocy - as if the ideas of "solutions" and "real answers to real problems" wouldn't also be coopted |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Not at all |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. a dishonest use of "solutions" would be just as chimerical |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. By leadership that is not beholden to special interests. |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. How does that work |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. He has proven how beholden he is to special interests. One word: Exelon |
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Orwellian_Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 09:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. Two more words |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. He is an inspiring figure. He brings many into the political process for the first time. |
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BooScout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. He and they 'hope' they can come up with something..... |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. It's an opportunity for US to come up with something. See post #12 below. |
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jackson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 03:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Obama is a politician. His "movement" is about him. Yes HE can |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Well, if that's true, WE CAN change that, according to the good professor... |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 05:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. So you believe that all politicians are only out for themselves? |
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thoughtcrime1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 04:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. No we can't! How dare you! |
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respublicus (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. they are used to pull the wool and hide the reactionary. Obamania is an NED-style dupe-a-mob coup. |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. History shows that "hope" and "change" can be vehicles for Progressive action... |
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ClassWarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. . |
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Jane Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
15. By leadership that doesn't automatically head |
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C_U_L8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
16. We've seen seven years of hopelessness and changelessness |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. When the only hope and the only change |
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Freida5 (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. With BO you can only hope for some change |
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thoughtcrime1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
24. The change starts with us |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
26. My main HOPE is that more Democrats will wake up |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
28. Jaw-dropping stupidity. That about sums it up. /nt |
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Yael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-16-08 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. This doesn't take into account the mind boggling sweep of congress thats about to happen |
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