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Beto addressing the shooting (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Oct 2018
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RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)1. Echoes of another young American leader...
Echoes of another young American leader...
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NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)2. He reminds me so much of RFK
Young, energetic, idealistic, intelligent. Also reminds me of Obama for the same reasons.
RHMerriman
(1,376 posts)3. If only ... I lived through this idiocy once before; I don't need to
If only ... I lived through this idiocy once before; I don't need to a second time, and my children sure as hell do not.
Vote Democratic. Our lives, and our country, depends on it.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)4. Even looks a bit like RFK
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pamela
(3,469 posts)5. Robert Francis O'Rourke
Must have been named after him, too.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)6. I hadn't even noticed that!
pamela
(3,469 posts)7. I gasped the first time I noticed it
I told my husband I thought Beto might be Bobby reincarnated and then I looked on his wikipedia page to see if that was possible-if he was born after Bobby died. That was when I saw his middle name.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)8. OMG. Beto was born four years after Bobby died. That sure would fit.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)9. I won't go so far as reincarnation
(especially since I don't believe in it), but the initials are amazing!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)10. He's a very good, nice, honest person. What 'the people' need as President or any position.