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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:07 PM Original message |
Your thoughts: What do Ronald Reagan & Barack Obama have in common? |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. I have said for some time that Obama has incredible teflon. |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Great Link. Rev. Wright would have mortally wounded anyone else. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. It started to with the "acted stupidly" comment |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. They're both tall. n/t |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
4. I buy that |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Also, I'd add another one |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Agreed. Obama is an idealist, |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. They're both tall men? |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Have you met Rahm Emanuel? |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. Both Are Fundamentally Classical Republicans In Their Policies. |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Agreed, they are not Socialists. |
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ClusterFreak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. They are both admired by Ron Reagan, Jr.? |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. I never found reagan a great communicator |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. To be fair |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Yeah, he was slightly more coherent than **. It was his folksniess, like **, that won people over. |
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cleveramerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:31 PM Original message |
both: |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. Disagree Reagan gave a Ford a run for his money in 1976. |
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cleveramerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. He was not the favorite going in |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:48 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Bush was the favorite, but Reagan did not come out of 'left' field. |
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cleveramerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. okay I give you that |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:58 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. It says something however that one speech in 2004 had nearly as much gravitas |
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cleveramerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. it was no ordinary speech |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Wow. |
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uponit7771 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
14. Obama is the anti RayGun, one of America's most racist presidents in my lifetime |
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Thrill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. Its "Good Morning in America Again" for their reelection commercial? |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
21. Uh, both born in the US. |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
22. They're both Presidents of the United States; aside from that, nothing at all |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
23. It hurts me to say this because Ronald Regan was not my favorite |
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denem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. cf, Reverend Wright; 'clinging to guns' |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
29. Spot on but you left out.......... |
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