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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:48 PM Original message |
One is happenstance, twice is coincidence |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. The reality is the boomers retirement funds and their middle |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Surprise, surprise: we, boomers have most of the time voted our conscience |
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NancyG (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Actually, going back to the 60s - McCarthy '68 |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. This Boomer |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Another enthusiastic Obama Boomer here! nt |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. it will be a shared victory. Obama can't win with us boomers. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe boomers can tell young people how their support for Obama is only based on a speech. |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. And what happened to Gene McCarthy? |
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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:04 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Several things happened |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Chicago didn't happen to McCarthy, Chicago happened |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. Weren't boomers part of the 60's and the radical movement of civil rights? |
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johnaries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Yes, we were. We believed in Change then, we believe in it now. |
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gblady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Obama's campaign.... |
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NancyG (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 03:08 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. It's been 40 years since I felt we could change the world |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
6. I was on DU late, late Friday when Obama made it official. One of the first posts I saw was about |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. MUST READ: H2OMan on the Dirty Tricksters. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Thanks! I missed that one. |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Selecting Biden certainly energized many of us |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
12. Most PUMAs are Boomers. Most Boomers are not PUMAS. |
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marlakay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
16. I am 52 and think Obama is great |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
17. Obama IS a boomer - we need boomers & their kids (& everyone else)... |
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judasdisney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
19. Once "happenstance" -- twice "coincidence" -- thrice "is enemy fire"? |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
20. Well, I'm a 58 year old Boomer who has never given up my 60s idealism, and never will. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
24. This War baby love Obama and now Biden who is |
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Willo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
25. I heard something similar said by Chris Matthews today. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. It is a fact that the older the voter, the more likely they are to reject Obama. |
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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:42 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Correlation vs. Causality |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:59 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It has everything to do with how old they are. |
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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 08:14 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Actually, you're claiming causality |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 08:41 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. you're attempting to exonerate the guilty by citing your own life |
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RichardRay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Cum hoc ergo propter hoc |
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JoFerret (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. Such posters are |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
28. Obama-Biden Boomers, UNITE! I ain't marchin' anymore.... |
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Madam Mossfern (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
30. This boomer is for Obama all the way |
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barack the house (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-24-08 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
32. That's true certainly Obama has mass appeal and no-one is excluded on this journey. Biden proof -> |
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