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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:35 PM
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Holy crap! My sister is leaning toward Edwards.
I'm stunned. She's a fundie living in Canada and has supported Bush for 8 years. (She has duo-citizenship and can vote in the US) We "broke up" when I voted for Kerry in 2004 and just started talking again online. She watched both debates last night and liked what Edwards had to say. Yipes, her deep-seeded liberalism is edging forth.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:37 PM
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1. I know several...
Republicans in the South that are leaning Edwards.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:38 PM
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2. She voted for Bush while hiding out in Canada which has healthcare?
Hit her for me.
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:41 PM
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4. And again for me.
Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 02:43 PM by citizen_jane
:spank:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:42 PM
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5. She's been there 30 years. Trust me, I slap her every chance I get...
...when she's talking to me.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 04:58 PM
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10. Frankly, your sister is just a vile person
to hell with her
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 06:13 PM
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12. Wow.
Thanks.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 07:26 PM
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14. Let's see...she has been benefiting from the progressive Canadian system for 3 decades...
while voting for neanderthals here in the US.
I was wrong. She is vile...and a hypocrite.
Tell her that I said thanks a lot.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:52 PM
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16. I'm sure she'll care about as much as I do.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:29 PM
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22. Blood may indeed be thicker than water, but deep down you know how...
reprehensible she is for doing what she does.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:30 PM
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24. Whatever.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:39 PM
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25. Whoever.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:40 PM
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3. Good news! n/t
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:03 AM
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26. Yes, good news. Better late than never. I don't have any siblings and sometimes I'm glad.
Other times I'm lonely.

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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 02:44 PM
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6. How can anyone not like Edwards?
He is really hitting a nerve right now.

I watched him on C-Span a couple hours ago. He had the father of the girl that was denied the liver transplant by Signa on stage with him. There wasn't a dry eye. He is hitting on the issues that mean the most to the struggling middle class.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 04:37 PM
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7. How can a hardcore, Baptist, fundie suddenly like Edwards?
I have to hand it to her, at least she gave the dems a chance and watched the debate and thought it out for herself.
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 04:40 PM
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8. It's about the populism.
Until recently, we've stopped doing it because it is somehow undignified.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 04:46 PM
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9. Well, it must be effective because my sister is hard core
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tnlefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 10:20 PM
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20. Your sister sounds like a friend of my Mom's who stated that
"Bush has turned me into a Democrat for the next 4 election cycles, if I live that long." Her conversion was pre-Katrina, too. It was the corporate greed exacerbated under Dimson**, along with the corruption that did it for her. Edwards would be a nice fit for her. Hubby and I are both coming into contact with repukes who are fed up and disgusted and don't want to vote repuke and the candidate that they mention is Edwards. Apparently getting screwed by the repukes brings out the populist in them?

Good for your sister. :hi:
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 07:33 PM
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15. he is a white male
that right there does a lot for Edwards whether any one likes to admit it or not.

:kick:
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mb7588a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 11:29 PM
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23. Wow. How incredibly insightful and insulting of you.
So is Mike Gravel... what of it?

I think Democrats are past that, 96% of Iowa is white and one third of their Dems went to a fucking high school gym and stood in the back corner for Obama. .
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frogmarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 05:07 PM
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11. I commend your sister. Good for her! nt
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 06:20 PM
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13. And people here continue to doubt those polls that show
Edwards doing the best against any of the Republicans!
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:55 PM
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17. My sister voted for bush in 2000, stayed home in '04...she's got Hillary bumper stickers...
Still shocks me. :smoke:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 09:56 PM
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18. Yeah, my sister mentioned that she admired Hillary for taking the heat at the debate.
Go figure.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 10:07 PM
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19. My sister and I talked about that tonight...
She loved that whole debate and thought Hillary was great. I thought Hillary did okay and really let Edwards have it at one point, but my sister couldn't stop gushing about how great she did.

Given how republican leaning my sister gets it's shocking to me that she'd go dem. Her and I are both voting for Hillary. She's doing the whole bumper sticker thing and I wouldn't be surprised if she does some volunteering later in the year.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-06-08 10:48 PM
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21. I'm intrigued by republican women digging on Hillary.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:06 AM
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28. I'm truly intrigued by EVERYBODY dumping on Hillary!
Edited on Mon Jan-07-08 12:07 AM by Radio_Lady
Perhaps I'm still back in the "inevitability" stage. I can't believe the stuff I'm reading today.

GADS.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:04 AM
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27. Just curious. When did she move to Canada? And why, if I'm not too nosy...
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-07-08 12:10 AM
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29. Excellent!
:bounce:
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