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bigdarryl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:45 PM Original message |
Where was all these pissed off Progressives when Clinton was Governing from the center |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, to be fair, most of the people who dislike the DLC aren't great Clinton fans either. |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I was here but DU was not... |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Oh you know what I mean...there was "internet" but it wasn't like it is today |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. I was using Prodigy and BBS's |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. PUMA nt |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. Nader ring a bell? |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
5. I know. Practically no one was posting on DU or DailyKos about it. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:50 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. *snarf* |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I was too busy listening to Nirvana to complain about Clinton on my Facebook page |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #5 |
55. +1 |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
7. Progressives did protest -- Seattle's WTO meeting was one event |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. There were usenet groups - including political ones, but the number of people |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
8. We hadn't learnt how dangerous DLC ideology was yet. |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
10. The internet was not as readily available to so many people back then. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. This one was royally pissed off. n/t |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
12. First, there was no DU. Second, the world hadn't had to endure 8 years of Bush yet, |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. We were working to change the same mistakes that are being made now |
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VMI Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. What did Big Ed have to say about it back then? |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I don't know. I was too busy listening to Air America and watching Countdown. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. There was staunch opposition to things like NAFTA and deregulating communications. |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. I was right here but DU wasn't so I couldn't post my concerns |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. Clinton was re-elected by a resounding majority, |
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11cents (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Six of Clinton's eight years, he had a GOP Congress. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #23 |
39. He had a majority Democratic congress in his first year...... |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:37 AM Response to Reply #19 |
56. In what kind of pea-brained world do you live that 49% is a "resounding majority"? |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
21. There was no DU! Internet was in it's infancy. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
24. We were writing letters to the editor that were not getting published. |
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DrToast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. Clinton only won 43% of the vote. And the Dems got their clocks cleaned in 1994 |
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Tailormyst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
26. To be fair, you probably just didn't hear them |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. I guess you weren't around the Democratic party then ..were you? eom |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
28. Clinton didn't "turn to the center" until after the Republicans |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. NAFTA, DADT and HillaryCare all predated the 94 takeover. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. DADT was a compromise after the Senate, |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Clinton could have allowed gays in with an executive order. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #35 |
47. how realitic was that scenario? |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 05:00 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Not very, given Clinton's general support for progressive issues. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:25 AM Response to Reply #35 |
52. Clinton was going to do precisely that |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 01:00 AM Response to Reply #35 |
59. Would have been a tragic mistake |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 01:52 AM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Was Sam Nunn King of the US and I just missed it? |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 02:04 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. See this |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 02:15 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Which part of that gave him the ability to override a presidential veto all by himself? |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. Clinton signed an executive order in 1993; that's how DADT first got implimented. |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. it was a compromise forced on him by his own party |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:28 AM Response to Reply #40 |
53. Actually he planned to sign an executive order allowing gays to serve opnely |
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Krashkopf (965 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. You weren't listening! |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. maybe you heard nothing |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
33. Clinton lost me, for one |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
34. Yeah, where was them at? |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
36. Oh, I was right here. |
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jsamuel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
37. I was 11 years old |
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krawhitham (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
38. Clinton is white |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. and had the Clenis....... |
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hughee99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
41. They were busy making a killing on the .com bubble. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Not in Clinton's first year, he didn't. |
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Milo_Bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
44. Did you read any of Michael Moore's books? |
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Habibi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
45. soc.politics, probably |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
46. In the Michigan Militia. |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
50. Elementary school. NT |
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Midwestern Democrat (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-28-10 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
51. You ever see "Bullworth"? That was basically Warren Beatty's |
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Phx_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
54. They were there. They voted for Nader and elected Bush. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
57. At alt.politics.liberal DUH!!! |
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Ildem09 (472 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
58. Um i couldnt vote |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-29-10 02:27 AM Response to Original message |
63. I don't think DU was established, to hear them. n/t |
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