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WheelWalker

(8,955 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:07 AM Apr 2016

What we have here, seems to me, are a lot of really good people on their very worst behavior.

It sort of reminds me of a very nasty divorce proceeding... you know, when irreconcilable differences have brought about the irremediable breakdown of the marriage. For many, there will be little left to salvage, I'm afraid. Think of the children. We're better people than this.

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What we have here, seems to me, are a lot of really good people on their very worst behavior. (Original Post) WheelWalker Apr 2016 OP
You were here in 08 so you know how DU dis-functions during a primary. Lucinda Apr 2016 #1
Maybe I was more insulated then... no jury system, and I was a Bidenite. WheelWalker Apr 2016 #2
LOL That is a VERY wise family policy! Lucinda Apr 2016 #3

Lucinda

(31,170 posts)
1. You were here in 08 so you know how DU dis-functions during a primary.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:29 AM
Apr 2016

I liken it more to a horrible holiday gathering rather than a flat out divorce. We are still fighting at the dinner table, and will chill back down about the time someone drags out the home movies.

WheelWalker

(8,955 posts)
2. Maybe I was more insulated then... no jury system, and I was a Bidenite.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:34 AM
Apr 2016

We in the Biden group were held up by many for the example of our civility. To maintain reasonable calm, most of us stayed well away from GD-Primaries. Perhaps your analogy is more accurate. In my family, however, everybody had to check their meds at the door and verify they had taken them, LOL.

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