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msongs

(67,459 posts) Mon Jan 23, 2017, 09:42 PM Jan 2017

missed the start tho. it's live on facebook

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watching the dnc chair "debate". perez up now. DC insider. u watching? (Original Post) msongs Jan 2017 OP

Mom always said "Don't throw the Baby out with the bath water." emulatorloo Jan 2017 #4

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1. sorta lightweight. a few of them clearly don't belong as candidates IMO tho I dont know all their

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 10:14 PM

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names to ID them

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2. For me, if somebody's a Dem I don't want to slur with a label ("insider") unless 3rd party

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 10:37 PM

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3. insider part of the DC politcal establishment. not a slur IMO just a statement of position vs

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 10:44 PM

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outside the DC establishment

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4. Mom always said "Don't throw the Baby out with the bath water."

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 10:53 PM

Jan 2017

Perez is a liberal. I don't understand this compulsion to purge liberals cuz they have been in DC. Do we have to purge Ellison too? No thanks.