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Mom calls CSPAN to tell kids to knock it off for Christmas (Original Post)
NightWatcher
Dec 2014
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aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)1. Those southern boys didn't dare tell mama to stop talking
They knew better
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)2. I'll tell you what I hate about people like this caller
She is concerned only now about Medicaid expansion because ONLY now it affects someone in her immediate family.
I know she said she's a registered Democrat but what votes did she make in the past where she might
have affected other peoples who weren't as lucky as her in her position in life.
Don't always just think of your self .....
rant over
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. Their empathy doesn't extend passed the tip of their nose
They are anti- stem cell...until someone they know gets paralyzed.
They are anti- FEMA until the storm hits their house.
and so on.
Too bad these people couldn't put themselves in other people's shoes BEFORE it happens to someone they know.
I seconded your righteous rant
helpmetohelpyou
(589 posts)4. Thanks . I didn't mean to hijack your thread
I just wish everyone in our country could just put them selves in other peoples
shoes and life conditions just for one day.
What a better country it would be.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)5. me too.
dogman
(6,073 posts)6. To her credit, she was honest.
Although it could be her way of staying above the fray. The conservative can't win when she says it is the only issue that matters, so she doesn't have to argue with all of his other nonsense.