Get to know SeanQuinn! Ask me anything.

[SeanQuinn]

Anything.

[UrbScotty]

1. Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

Ronnie wants to know.

[SeanQuinn]

3. Well, definitely not.

My dad's pretty much lost his job, we've downsized, our health insurance premiums have gone up and gas prices are through the roof.

How bout you?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Hey Seen.

[SeanQuinn]

4. Hey Crazy Guuugenhim.

How ya doin?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Pretty good. What's up with you? On Edit: Aren't you expecting

another hurricane in FL.?

[SeanQuinn]

8. Sadly, yeah.

[miss_kitty]

6. Is that pronounced

'Shawn' or 'Seen'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3975655

:P

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. That's why I did it.

[SeanQuinn]

9. Shawn, lololol.

Thanks for that.

[khashka]

10. Describe yourself in twenty five words or less.

The important stuff...

Khash.

[SeanQuinn]

12. Well.

I'm a thirteen-year-old pinko liberal in the eighth grade living in Lake Mary, Florida. I'm very concerned for the future.

[khashka]

13. Really?

Eighth grade? Fuck! I better start behaving myself! Gotta set a good example after all.

Hey, the kids are all right!

Khash.

[SeanQuinn]

19. Hah.

No worries. This isn't FR, you don't have to censor yourself, and there's nothing I haven't heard already.

I mean, on FR, in worries that a young kid may be on, the word 'damn' is censored by users. For God's sake.

[KitchenWitch]

17. My son is 14

and he is liberal, hates war, hates *, laughs at *'s stupid speeches and is also named Sean.

[SeanQuinn]

18. Yeah, I remember you were talking about him in a thread.

We are the next generation, and we've got so much hidden power it's unbelievable. With that being said, even though we're probably 2-1 Democrats or Anti-Bush, there's a good amount of young Bushies too.

[khashka]

11. self delete

internet fuck up, sorry.

Khash.

[tjwmason]

14. Who is your political hero?

Always good to see youngsters getting to know politics b.t.w. - I've followed it avidly since the British election of 1992 (when I was 12). :hi:

[SeanQuinn]

20. America-wise: FDR, Truman, Kennedy, Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton,

Thomas Jefferson's a big one, and worldwide I'd say Gandhi, John Locke.

If I think of more I'll add them.

[tjwmason]

23. A very good list.

It might be a dash unkind to raise Hamilton's quote of "a republic - if you can keep it" at this precise moment.

On a more serious note - have you read any of John Locke? Ironically 18th century political philosophy is far easier to read than 20th (o figure). It might still be a tad much at the moment, but I'm a great believer in going to the texts of the greats themselves (I read Aristotle when I was 16 - I've been hocked ever since).

I can't say that I agree with everything he says - but there's no doubt at all that his Second Treatise of Government is one of the most influential texts ever (certainly in the American political model - the first time I read the U.S. Constitution, especially the openning, I though of Locke immediately).

I'm going to have to dig out some of my old university essays on Locke now and reread them.

[SeanQuinn]

25. I've really never read any of them.

I intend to pick up on the Federalist Papers and maybe some Locke and de Montesquieu as well, too. I've not really read as much as I should in regards to 19th/20th century politics.

[tjwmason]

27. There's plenty of time yet

I read far more between the ages of 15 and 20 than I would ever have thought possible.

[Heidi]

15. How do you feel about Kylie Minogue?

Mr. Heidi says you can tell a great deal about a man by how he feels about Kylie Minogue. :eyes:

So, how do you feel about Kylie Minogue?

[SeanQuinn]

21. Her music is horrible, but she's got the body.

Or had the body. She's had an interesting career.

[Heidi]

24. Mr. Heidi says, "_What_ music?" nt

[SeanQuinn]

26. And I agree with Mr. Heidi 100%. nt

[NMMNG]

16. Are you in any way related to the Mighty Quinn?

[SeanQuinn]

22. I think we're third cousins.

Actually, my old choir teacher started playing the beat to The Mighty Quinn every time I walked into choir. Quite hilarous.

[NMMNG]

30. I like that song

I have a fondness for lots of "oldies".

[SeanQuinn]

31. As do I. Dylan was a great songwriter, nt.

[JimmyJazz]

28. Why do you hate Amerika?

:P

[SeanQuinn]

29. Because there's so much still left to hate!

</sarcasm>

Credit for that answer comes here thanks to Google: http://www.oregonherald.com/n/radicalruss/20050326_hate-america-so-much.html