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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:38 PM
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Who else here voted for JFK in 1960?





I've come full circle: from JFK in 1960 to JFK in 2004.
And the two opponents - Nixon and W. hmmmmmmmm....
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:40 PM
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1. I was only 5 then but my Republican parents did vote for Kennedy n/t
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:55 PM
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23. Almost forgot. My parents have already told me they will vote for Kerry
They both hate Bush's guts.

Don
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 09:09 PM
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24. NNNOLHI, Give your parents my regards.
They are obviously independent thinkers,
rare for Republicans.
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surfermaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 04:13 PM
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29. I voted for Kennedy and remember Mr Roosevelt
Many called FDR., Mr.Roosevelt, remember my dad taking poll's for Mr.Roosevelt by the way of the little country store's in a couple of counties in middle Georgia.

I remember doing my house work while watching the convention and realizing the young man from Mass. was probably going to get the nomination.

Edwards, has the energy of Jack Kennedy.
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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:41 PM
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2. only 20 and totally frustrated in 60 - watched the debate at college
with friends
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:50 PM
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7. Heady times
After coming through Joe McCarthy and Eisenhower, I can remember the great sense of hope and excitement that I had when I pulled the lever for Kennedy. It must feel like the passion that the Deanies and the DK supporters have. In all these years, I have been excited about two candidates (RFK didn't get there.) - Kennedy and Clinton. I love these guys.
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Feanorcurufinwe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:41 PM
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3. wow! impressive collection
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:44 PM
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4. That's a terrific collection!
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LandOLincoln Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:45 PM
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5. I was only 17 in 1960, but I still have (and wear) a button that
says, "If I were 21 I'd vote for KENNEDY."
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littlejoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:47 PM
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6. I was seven years old when my parents took me to a campaign
rally in Kansas City, where JFK was speaking in the parking lot of a strip shopping center. My dad lifted me up on his shoulders, because he wanted me to get a look at our next president.

I will never forget the excitement Kennedy generated among the crowd. I will also never forget my parent's reaction.

It was one of those indellible memories that I have cherished all my life.
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Dying Eagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:50 PM
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8. I salute you
you went thought some hard times when it was real unpopular to be a Democrat. great buttons!!
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:56 PM
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9. I can't remember a time when being
a liberal was more difficult than right now other than the
McCarthy era. The right wing operatives have brought those years back to life for me. I can't wait for this country to regain it's political sanity (oxymoron?)
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 12:12 PM
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28. Hi lshles!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:56 PM
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10. I was 3, my parents voted JFK
And JK was my first choice and will be my proudest moment in voting yet. I can't believe I'm even getting the chance to vote for somebody who helped stop the war, participated in the first earth day, exposed Iran/Contra, was an early advocate of gay rights, helped change rape and domestic violence prosecutions, pioneered the Acid Rain initiative, stopped the drilling in ANWR, rewrote the oceans and fisheries legislation, set up early child education programs, and has done so much that has affected my life that I didn't even know about when he was doing it. Absolutely the best vote of my life!
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 07:59 PM
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11. I'm right with you, sandnsea...
I sense a light at the end of this hell hole we have fallen into.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:07 PM
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12. I should have the same Buttons - but don't - , likewise I don't have the
SDS flyers! or Baez at BU as a sophomore there, or Dylan's first(?) East Coast gig at the SugarShack flyers -

just memories!

Adlai got 3 out of 43 votes in my room - one was mine of course - in the schools 52 mock election, and yet I was in Illinois!

I envy your button collection!

:-)
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:14 PM
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14. I think Adlai got about the same number
in my homeroom. Those were the days when you were a commie or a
comsymp (sympathizer) if you were a democrat. Kinda like now, huh.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 10:52 PM
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27. yep
:-)
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surfermaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 04:17 PM
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30. Middle Georgia & Mr.Roosevelt
In my school, in the race between Roosevelt and Dewey, there was only one family that voted democrat, and they were a family of many and big farmers.

Georgia will come to their sense again, I hope in 2004
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:09 PM
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13. We have a bunch of young whippersnappers here.
I guess most of the progressives my age met their demise on the ramparts long ago.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:29 PM
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17. Anyone who remembers JFK is a senior citizen here!

I also remember when Eisenhower and Truman were president before Kennedy, but couldn't vote until 1968. I was very pleased to be able to vote for Dennis Kucinich this week as he is the first candidate I'd really felt good about since George McGovern in 1972. It's been disappointing to me that he didn't get more support at DU and from voters, but being an older Dem I'm used to disappointment in election years! ;-)


Welcome to DO, lshles! :hi:
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Nailzberg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:15 PM
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15. I very well could have, even though I wasn't born yet.
My parents lived in Cook County at the time.
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:16 PM
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16. LOL, Nailzberg
I wonder how many of our folks know what you are talking about.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:38 PM
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20. Nah, you had to be dead to vote in 1960, unborns weren't

counted. :evilgrin:
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jean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:32 PM
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18. I was a little kid, but my parents voted for him. The only button I have
says "Impeach Nixon Now!" My daughter went on the Close Up trip for the Bush-Cheney inauguration and has that big, ugly button.

How about this one - wear it while grocery shopping:
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:37 PM
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19. Neat post
I was just a glisten in my parents eye at the time scheduled for 3 years later :)

You've done a lot of good work for your country.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:52 PM
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21. They wouldn't give me an absentee ballot . . . since I was
born in 1963.

Even my older brother couldn't. He was born in 1960.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 08:53 PM
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22. I am insanely jealous of anybody who got to --
-- vote for John Kennedy.

I was too young for any understanding of politics, but I could tell the effect he had on my parents.

Can you miss somebody you never knew except through a child's eyes? Yeah, you can.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 10:39 PM
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25. I was in grade school, but
my parents voted for Nixon. :-(

They were rather anti-Catholic, and my mom, who is half-Latvian, believed at the time that the Dems were soft on Communism.
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Squibbie Donating Member (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 10:48 PM
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26. Just like today..
except now Democrats are soft on terrists. Gotta break this cycle.
I'm sick of these propagandists.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 04:17 PM
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31. I was only 5.
I'll never forget his assassination though. I was only 8, but remember it like it was yesterday. What a sad day. :cry:
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MODemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-06-04 06:56 PM
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32. I voted for JFK

My brother-in-law told me that I was riding a loser but it turned out that he was the one riding a loser. My voting record is solid for Democratic candidates, beginning with Harry Truman.

:dem:
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