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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:22 AM Original message |
Barack Obama & Oratory. A word from Bob Dylan. |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. the amazing thing about him is |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "...Bush, obvously was pathetic from the first word to the last mangled |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:30 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. i can't wait for Obama's first SOTU address |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:32 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. And an Inaugural address that comes at a time when we need the |
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ErnestoG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. I so look forward to a president who can form a cogent paragraph again... |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. - - - - |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. But what would Phil Ochs say? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. girl gone mad, thank you for the links. Now you've gone and gotten me |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:51 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Sometimes you have to take sides.. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:53 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I should have lived in the age of traveling minstrel singers. I think it |
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RFKJrNews (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Great thread, OC |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:26 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Considering where you hang out, it is a delightful certainty that you would |
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RFKJrNews (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:39 AM Response to Reply #22 |
30. God, I miss Phil Ochs. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:45 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. "the Johnson treatment" !! |
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RFKJrNews (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 10:36 AM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Will do, OC |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #30 |
48. Thanks, I kicked your thread.. |
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RFKJrNews (760 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 12:45 AM Response to Reply #48 |
55. Thanks for the kick, my friend |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
23. What would Dr. Phil say? |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. "He's done a bit of reading and thinking"--He needs to do a lot more. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 01:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Most of the people running my junior high definitely didn't. |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Your trick isn't very nice..trying to downplay |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:25 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I'm sure he'd like to downplay this one and you're right, it does say |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. If we get Obama it will be |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:03 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Hi, zidzi. Yes -- that refrain is kind of jammed into my brain and it |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Ah, Vermont! I'm really excited.. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I'm wondering how things look up in green Vermont for the nomination |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:21 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Yeah, me too..and it made me think of |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
20. I was in 10th grade when JFK was elected, and sorry, but... |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:29 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Well, either he or Senator Clinton is going to be the nominee, unless |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:30 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Needless to say, so will I. Neither of us wants "100 years war" McCain. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:33 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. True. McCain worries me. I mean he worries me a LOT. |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 03:25 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. He represents, at a minimum, 4 more years of the same putrid shit. He's a war monger. |
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anamandujano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 03:04 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Have you seen this Seabiscuit? |
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Seabiscuit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 03:24 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. That is one frightening article. |
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Nutmegger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:31 AM Response to Original message |
26. A good early morning to you OC |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:33 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Hey Nutmegger. The same's true right back atcha. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:35 AM Response to Original message |
29. More... |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
35. K & R |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
37. Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. There's a Grateful Dead account of Bobby asking Jerry about Dylan's lyrics. |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:24 AM Response to Reply #41 |
43. I've come to think of Dylan as an idiot savant in some ways |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:28 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Hi, heraldsqure. Agree -- there's that strong, identifiable eclectic |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 12:03 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Damn, I agree with you on Empire Burlesque |
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BeyondGeography (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
38. What is so often the most memorable thing about Presidents? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:07 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. Yer durn tootin'. |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
39. Most excellent post, OC-thank you! nt |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:01 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Hi, babylonsister. A pleasure to run into you as always. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
45. BUT under Bush...."our childrens is learnin'!" nt |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. They is indeed. In other words, they is learnin'. |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:32 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. OC, what's your favorite line from an Obama speech? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:37 PM Response to Reply #49 |
51. I like the way he threads historical reference into current urgency. |
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chimpymustgo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I hear a string of platitudes and phony preaching. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. Historians are likely writing books about the 2008 campaign already. |
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Caro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
50. Speeches and ideas ... |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #50 |
52. One of the great Bushisms of the past 8 years. |
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