Dynasty wasn't even a very good television show. (Reply #6)

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Sat Mar 11, 2017, 08:39 AM

Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)

6. Dynasty wasn't even a very good television show.

It's a terrible principle by which to run Democracies.

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63 replies	Author	Time	Post
Joseph Kennedy lll in 2020 [View all]	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	OP
Democrats need to get him out there.	Vinca	Mar 2017	#1
He has a commitment to liberal values which he is able to articulate.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#2
He has been showing up on the radar recently.	TexasTowelie	Mar 2017	#4
Possible VP candidate	Chasstev365	Mar 2017	#3
Youth and wisdom are not mutually exclusive.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#5
However, youth and long experience are.	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#16
Obama was only in the senate 3 years	Motley13	Mar 2017	#11
Let's see what happens. He made a good start. He is promising...	CTyankee	Mar 2017	#36
Dynasty wasn't even a very good television show.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#6
Maybe we need more "rags to riches" stories like Donald Thump.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#7
No, but Barack Obama and, even Bill Clinton both came out of nowhere.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#8
That argument was made about Ted Kennedy in first Senate run.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#9
Suggesting that we've gotten some of our best recent leadership where people might not	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#15
Do you think that should be a qualification for running?	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#14
No.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#18
You gave a great description of what is enough for an activist, or leader of a movement.	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#25
That guy (Trump) is not charismatic, inspirational, nor is he a natural leader.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#30
Because she had the last name Clinton, she didn't merit the office?	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#38
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were both complete products of meritocracy, as much as such a thing is	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#43
So you're saying Yes, because of her last name, HRC was not running on merit. (nt)	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#47
If i had ten bucks for every time someone did the "So you're saying..." followed by something	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#48
You omitted her in your list of those who merited office. Your post - right up there...	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#50
Jesus fuck. The fact that you have to construct arguments Ive never made, here	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#54
Perfectly. (nt)	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#58
So we disqualify him automatically on the basis of his family tree? That's democracy?	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#13
Look, man, anyone who knows me knows how hard it is to get me to shut up.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#17
That is the effect of your point, isn't it? Whether you put it that way or not.	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#39
I've said repeatedly in this thread I'm not "excluding" anyone.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#44
So you've changed your mind since the "Dynasty was a bad TV show...."	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#51
If Joe Kennedy III is really all that, i will gladly suppport the guy.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#55
Wow, what an odd response. n/t	USALiberal	Mar 2017	#33
...is it?	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#34
Yes. (nt)	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#40
K&R!	stonecutter357	Mar 2017	#10
He's good, but he's got time to build the resume. And we need him where he is right now. (nt)	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#12
My problem with him is that - as I understand	jimlup	Mar 2017	#19
That's his first cousin once removed Robert Kennedy Jr.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#20
We do owe Donald Trump a debt of gratitude.	gordianot	Mar 2017	#21
Anyone who doesn't think his family's history	nocalflea	Mar 2017	#22
You mean the family history of giving three lives in service to their nation ?	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#23
I hope it is, it'll tie him to good people... Benedict Donald is tied to a white supremacist	uponit7771	Mar 2017	#24
This is about a general election. The Kennedy	nocalflea	Mar 2017	#26
No politician, living or dead, is universally loved.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#28
Hmmmm, then we're making the mistake of proffering the perfect while they proffer the horrible	uponit7771	Mar 2017	#29
Yep - people will accuse him of being part of a "dynasty" some of whom died before he was born	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#41
Okay, let me play the devil's advocate for a minute, here, then-	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#45
Um... I'm not one of those people suggesting that we "fast-track" him.	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#46
And I'm not suggesting we exclude him.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#49
So you've changed your mind since the "Dynasty was a bad TV show...."	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#52
Nope.	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#56
Smokescreen....	ehrnst	Mar 2017	#57
I didn't change my mind. I said "Dynasties are a terrible principle by which to run democracies"	Warren DeMontague	Mar 2017	#62
Hopefully by 2020, we won't be all the way back to hating Irish Catholics	Starry Messenger	Mar 2017	#27
Ted Kennedy didn't lose because of "Chappaquiddick, womanizing, and hard partying"	brooklynite	Mar 2017	#31
Did history begin and end in 1980?	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#32
No, but his Presidential campaign did	brooklynite	Mar 2017	#35
Precisely for the reasons I cited. Thank you for the confirmation.	DemocratSinceBirth	Mar 2017	#37
Was thinking that when I saw him....	kerry-is-my-prez	Mar 2017	#42
No IMO	GitRDun	Mar 2017	#53
we didn't lose because her name was Clinton... was far more complicated than that	Fast Walker 52	Mar 2017	#59
Not really	GitRDun	Mar 2017	#63
You said "Joseph Kennedy lll" (with three lower-case L's) but I keep seeing "Joseph Kennedy Ill" ...	NurseJackie	Mar 2017	#60
Is it just me? JKIII reminds me a lot of Conan...	NurseJackie	Mar 2017	#61

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