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bluestateguy

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:12 PM
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How would you interpret this quote?

"Obama is destroying the America I knew as a boy!"

-- A 55 year old (native born) white Southerner

Hmmmmmmm.....

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ingac70

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:13 PM
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1. Who said that? n/t

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dbonds

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:15 PM
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2. The America I knew as a child...

was destroyed by time, disco, greed, republicans, moral majority, and rap.

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ingac70

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:16 PM
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4. lol...

I agree with you, except the part about disco!

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Beacool

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:07 PM
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15. Disco?

Edited on Sat Jun-27-09 06:15 PM by Beacool

Yep, it's all the BeeGees, Donna Summer, The Jacksons and Gloria Gaynor's fault.

Quoting Gloria, Disco responds: "I will Survive".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faf1ch7Q9XE

:7

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dbonds

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:42 PM
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19. More like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc5d01_riBo

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Beacool

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:46 PM
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20. That's not fair!!!

You must have picked the worst band. I never heard of them, thank goodness for small favors. LOL!!!

:rofl:

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dbonds

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:53 PM
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21. That was a heavy rotation song in the 70s

The singer is Rick Dee's who is now a famous radio DJ. I think the song actually spawned a cartoon show.

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Beacool

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Sun Jun-28-09 08:29 PM
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31. Thanks for the info.

I had never heard that song before, but I obviously didn't miss anything.

:D

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TheBigotBasher

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Mon Jun-29-09 09:21 AM
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41. That was ace. I loved the intro.

Are you sure that video was not from last year, it reminds me of Will Bower and Darragh Murphy?

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Ken Burch

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Sun Jun-28-09 09:11 PM
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34. Well, disco did basically kill soul music for about ten years.

n/t.

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Beacool

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Sun Jun-28-09 11:09 PM
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35. OK, but not all of it was bad.

There's room for all genre.

:-)

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Ken Burch

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Mon Jun-29-09 01:23 AM
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37. Some of it was good.

Edited on Mon Jun-29-09 01:24 AM by Ken Burch

I just wish the music industry hadn't decided "disco good-soul bad" at that point.

One big difference was that soul was political and spoke in the voice for the poor. Disco was almost always apolitical and escapist. It was for dancing while forgetting about reality.

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Beacool

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Mon Jun-29-09 08:31 AM
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38. Never thought about it that way.

Then again, I was just a kid when disco was big and wasn't think about the political impact of music.

:D

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eleny

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:15 PM
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3. The South back in the early 1960s...

Obama would never have carried a southern state back then. It's an America that needed changing.

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Drunken Irishman

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:18 PM
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5. Well let's see...

If he's 55, he was born in 1954.

You generally consider your childhood as your first ten years, right? I mean, maybe your preteens could be coupled with that, however, we'll just go up until the age ten as a childhood.

That takes us to 1964.

What was at its height in 1964?

Hm...

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CaliforniaPeggy

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:20 PM
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6. LOL!

I hope Obama is destroying the America this man knew as a boy! It was a very racist time!

:rofl:

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madmom

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:21 PM
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7. I would say "that is a GOOD thing!"

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Political Tiger

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Sat Jun-27-09 07:16 PM
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23. I would too! n/t

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thunder rising

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:22 PM
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8. Into what language?

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theoldman

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:25 PM
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9. Not much has changed since he was a boy 40 to 45 years ago.

I guess one big change is that the former Democrats now call themselves Republicans. Before they called themselves Democrats they called themselves Republicans so in reality nothing has changed.

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Jackeens

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:26 PM
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10. Mark Sanford?

:-)

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:39 PM
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18. Family values a la Sanford!

SC should recall him over the rejection of the stimulus. He wanted people to suffer in his state.

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Cha

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:33 PM
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11. Too bad Bigot

..A Black man is Prez now..suck it up.

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bertman

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:34 PM
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12. I interpret it to be a wail from an ignorant Southern redneck. And, having been born

Edited on Sat Jun-27-09 04:35 PM by bertman

and raised in the South, and being older than the wailing redneck, I am absolutely thrilled that the America I knew as a boy is having some of its worst elements destroyed. Jim Crow, the Southern Strategy, the Religious Right Whackjobs, all needed to go.

They have been mostly defanged, but we still have a list of others that need to be destroyed: gay bashing, militarism, anti-immigrant hatred, union busting, the white power structure to name a few.

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stray cat

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Sat Jun-27-09 04:38 PM
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13. I would have to know the person and the context

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Flabbergasted

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Sat Jun-27-09 05:41 PM
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14. Good. nt

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Fire1

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:33 PM
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16. Too easy. n/t

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lunatica

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:38 PM
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17. This guy is the same one who claimed

Edited on Sat Jun-27-09 06:39 PM by lunatica

The blacks destroyed it by getting the right to eat at the local drugstore counter and entering through the front door.

Then he complained his childhood life was ruined by them uppity women who burned their bras and took his job and education.

Then he complained of those damn illegals taking jobs he didn't want or ever had.

So natch, now it's all Obama who's changed everything he holds so dear from his childhood, like when it was 'popular' to be the big bad ass boss white man.

Poor Asshole. Go ahead and feel sorry for yourself, since it the only sincere thing about you.

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BlooInBloo

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Sat Jun-27-09 06:53 PM
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22. What is "something Archie Bunker would say", Alex?

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damonm

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Sat Jun-27-09 08:46 PM
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25. THIS.

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lindisfarne

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Sat Jun-27-09 08:43 PM
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24. The America where a family could live on 1 parent working? Where min. wage was a living wage? Where

kids learned in school? Where most foods really were organic & sustainably grown?

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lame54

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Sat Jun-27-09 08:54 PM
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26. that's why we put him in there

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baldguy

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Sat Jun-27-09 09:56 PM
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27. And it's about time! Praise Jesus!

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csziggy

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Sat Jun-27-09 10:39 PM
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28. No change for the better is destroy that remanent of the Conferderacy

It started before that asshole was born and it will continue long after he is dead. Thanks to true Americans that want to see the promise of freedom be extended to all.

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Raine1967

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Sat Jun-27-09 10:55 PM
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29. K&R

I would like to know where the quote came from, But I get a feeling that I appreciate the sentiment.

That America -- the one this 55 yr old southerner knew, has been gone a long time -- Maybe the person is just catching up...

Obama is putting one of the last nails in that coffin...

Mind you -- there are a lot of nails and this is all relative... The America he knew has been dying a slow death. Obama is not the last person to nail that coffin.

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handmade34

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Sat Jun-27-09 10:58 PM
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30. The United States is much different

than it was when that 'white southerner' was a boy. If he were paying attention, he would have noticed that the change was happening many years before Barack Obama was even a politician. Obama has become a handy excuse (scapegoat) for many that are afraid of, adverse to and/or intimidated by change.

There are many reasons for the change: population growth, deregulation of industry/corporations, change in education and expectations, technology, etc..., none having to do with Barack Obama, just a handy excuse for a seemingly ignorant, bigoted, racist citizen.

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Skittles

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Sun Jun-28-09 09:02 PM
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32. gibberish spoken by a racist bastard

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Ken Burch

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Sun Jun-28-09 09:10 PM
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33. That 55 year old would've been born in 1954

here's the America he "knew as a boy"

(graphic images, but hey folks, it was a graphic time)

...that's what this guy thinks of as "the good old days".

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beac

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Sun Jun-28-09 11:21 PM
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36. Hmmm.... maybe he thinks Obama will somehow actually cause the South to "rise again"

and then what will they have left to talk about at Klan meetings? That Obama, he destroys everything!

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Canuckistanian

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Mon Jun-29-09 08:59 AM
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39. And good riddance to it n/t

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santamargarita

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Mon Jun-29-09 09:06 AM
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40. I would say, he's doing his job

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Orsino

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Mon Jun-29-09 09:47 AM
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42. He's only destroying some of it.

He's also trying to stop us from letting the damned thing fall apart completely...and he may be too late.

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Myrina

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Mon Jun-29-09 09:49 AM
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43. I find that interesting because generally,

... what we "know" as children, or "remember" from our childhoods turns out to be not-so-realistic, ie - my older brothers and sisters see "Happy Days" & say 'just like when I was a kid', and I view "The Brady Bunch" as my childhood -- but neither are based in reality ... more like rosy-colored mythology.

So, dude is reminiscing and mourning an "America" that may not really have ever existed, except for in his boyish ideals.

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