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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 07:47 PM Original message |
Poll question: What historical form of corruption and crime does this administration seem to resemble? |
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MikeNearMcChord (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'd say Caligula |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. Stalin |
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Doc_Technical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. Boss Tweed, 19th Century New York City. |
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illinoisprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. gilded age was late 1800s. 20s was the jazz age. |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. Atilla the Hun's reign and conquest |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. Grant is not an apt choice... |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 01:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. I sometimes think of Bush as the "anti-Grant." |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 08:12 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. You need to take a look at motivation as well |
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BlueIris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. What else do I need to do? Get a new haircut? A different political philosophy? |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
7. Mussolini - Hitler |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
8. 1890s robber baron days |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
19. That's the right answer. We're living in a new Gilded Age |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. How did Grant get to be antebellum? Didn't he come along post-Civil War? |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 02:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. It was my typo-I meant to go all the way from antebellum through the civil war and then Grant |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 05:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. You rock, bob. And that's the blue truth. More power to ya, and |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. I think you have to look at Hitler, Lenin, Napoleon |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
11. Rome: think "I, Claudius" |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 08:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Indeed. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
15. Other: 1984 (n/t) |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-22-07 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. Of course Rome lasted over 300 years past Caligula's reign |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
21. . |
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midlife_mo_Jo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
22. Definitely Mussolini nt |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-23-07 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. Soviets. The corrupt cronyism, the incompetence, the disasters. |
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