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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Found on Greg Palast's FB page today -- [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)120. LOL! I don't think I'd mind living and working in the UK very much, if I made enough for reasonably
frequent visits to family in the US.
Especially if I had been blackballed here.
As the great old* saying goes, "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke."
*I read that troops were saying it in the 1940s and 1950s, but could not determine if it went back even further.
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I was sold, but it would be nice if more people did learn about him, wouldn't it?
merrily
Sep 2015
#110
I dropped him an email in the midst of the Iraq invasion as I was considering
roguevalley
Sep 2015
#13
Well, kiss 'em good-bye. Taibbi is already under the bus and I suspect this puts Palast under it.
merrily
Sep 2015
#111
LOL! I don't think I'd mind living and working in the UK very much, if I made enough for reasonably
merrily
Sep 2015
#120
He did a talk/book signing years ago and I felt like a groupie getting my book signed
arcane1
Sep 2015
#40
Thanks. I think I just guffawed. I've never been totally sure what a guffaw is. If it's a sudden,
merrily
Sep 2015
#37
K & R. Good post. Always enjoy Greg Palast's work and attitude. Bernie is bringing up
appalachiablue
Sep 2015
#21
Maybe I am. But any negative effect I might have, as a DUer, is small compared to the effect
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#63
But, but, the pro-Obama voters have assured us over and over and over that they will support
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#67
DUers have. But what about all the other Democrats who voted for President Obama
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#69
President Obama is "yesterday's laundry"? Not to millions of people who will be voting --
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#82
A lot of those people that believed that Obama was a progressive are looking forward to voting
rhett o rick
Sep 2015
#95
Actually you're having a terrific effect. I encourage u 2 continue this bizarre White Ambassadorship
Catherina
Sep 2015
#72
I will be if he's the nominee. At this point I'm undecided and I don't want any of our nominees
pnwmom
Sep 2015
#76
People are always going to be alienated by someone. Obama alienated some people,
Autumn
Sep 2015
#116
Since elected to Congress in 1990 Bernie has worked with many leaders including members
appalachiablue
Sep 2015
#34
The point is he was there....undercuttting the lie that he doesn't give a shit
Armstead
Sep 2015
#42
I'd like to think we're going to start seeing more of this, cuz it's so refreshing.
99th_Monkey
Sep 2015
#43
says sponsered by the Cong. Black Caucus and Sen Hillary Clinton. 2004 Why does OP say MIA
riversedge
Sep 2015
#65
Hillary was at an all-day African American Leadership Conference on that day
Chitown Kev
Sep 2015
#97
Some people have short memories, and don't apparently remember what they put on their OWN web pages.
MADem
Sep 2015
#126
Especially in states like South Carolina, where they passed voter restriction laws.
Major Hogwash
Sep 2015
#113