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calimary

(81,192 posts)

2. Good analysis.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sun Jan 12, 2014, 11:26 PM

Jan 2014

We can't say we are against bullying in the school-kids department when we shower adulation on them and vote them into higher and higher office and neglect questioning them and holding them accountable - when they're adults. Any more than we can say we're a Christian nation when we sneer at the poor and do everything we can legislatively to add to their misery.

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Chris Christie is a symptom... [View all] MrScorpio Jan 2014 OP

And I cannot understand it... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2014 #1

Good analysis. calimary Jan 2014 #2

Unlike the Duce, he couldn't make the bridge run on time. kairos12 Jan 2014 #3

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