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Kaleva

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41. I didn't say you sit in front of the idiot box all day did I? This is what you said:

Wed Dec 5, 2018, 12:38 PM

Dec 2018

" I'm so sick of turning on MSNBC and listening to everyone gush over Pappy Bush!"

I asked you why you do that, turn on MSNBC. And I then said that there's more to life then sitting in front of the idiot box. Why turn on the tv at all especially if what you watch controls your emotions so much? Wouldn't life be so much better if you were in control?

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Fuckie Todd, Brokaw and Nicole Wallace he is not the last of his generation who served [View all] malaise Dec 2018 OP

Umm.... jberryhill Dec 2018 #1

umm no both are 94 years old , the same generation . stonecutter357 Dec 2018 #2

Holy cow jberryhill Dec 2018 #5

I hear you malaise Dec 2018 #9

Yes the statement can be taken two ways but sdfernando Dec 2018 #18

Grammatically, the word "last" is linked to "his generation" so the OP is correct. yardwork Dec 2018 #22

I see how you are misunderstanding the statement. It's not worded well, but it's correct. Honeycombe8 Dec 2018 #47

Last of his generation to die is not accurate n/t malaise Dec 2018 #4

But that's not the statement jberryhill Dec 2018 #6

How did Jimmy Carter win that WWII victory medal then? Baltimike Dec 2018 #23

never mind that, how did Jimmy Carter get a time machine.... jberryhill Dec 2018 #25

No time machine needed. Jimmy Carter and HW Bush are in the same generation. Baltimike Dec 2018 #27

And which one was president last? jberryhill Dec 2018 #35

I'm curious- who do you think was the first of that generation to serve as president onenote Dec 2018 #36

Kennedy dsc Dec 2018 #44

Correct. And if he is the first because no one of that generation was president before him onenote Dec 2018 #46

My father got one too nitpicker Dec 2018 #60

Correct. That's why no one said that. Read the statement again. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2018 #48

The wording matters zaj Dec 2018 #3

It was poorly worded. Should have said "last WWII vet to get ELECTED President. All those after him Honeycombe8 Dec 2018 #49

MSM hates Carter because he's so foreign to them. lark Dec 2018 #7

Maybe so. But the statement that GWHB is the last of his generation to have served as president onenote Dec 2018 #14

He was the last one to get elected...better wording. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2018 #50

They've been calling it the WWII generation leftynyc Dec 2018 #8

The last vs. last surviving Zambero Dec 2018 #10

Different generation... brooklynite Dec 2018 #11

Carter is the same age as Bush was. yardwork Dec 2018 #24

He had a pretty darn good service record ... marble falls Dec 2018 #12

Who of that generation served as president after GWHB? onenote Dec 2018 #13

The navy has always been the red headed stepchild of the armed forces elmac Dec 2018 #15

But Bush was in the Navy Reserves. itsrobert Dec 2018 #33

I think I just heard a bunch of Coasties say "Excuse me?" n/t whopis01 Dec 2018 #39

Coming from a family of Marines, father, brother, cousins, uncles elmac Dec 2018 #43

I get it - have family in both the Marines and Navy whopis01 Dec 2018 #56

Who Will Bet Carter Wont Get 5 Days Of Gushing PaulX2 Dec 2018 #16

He'd BETTER! maddiemom Dec 2018 #17

But I expect most of the world will remember President Carter positively erronis Dec 2018 #19

I haven't watched one minute of the coverage... llmart Dec 2018 #37

I will give him more than that malaise Dec 2018 #53

Conservative reality -- History as seen through the glass eye of the beholder. ffr Dec 2018 #20

Fun fact: Bush was president after Carter. Kaleva Dec 2018 #21

You just misunderstood what they meant. phleshdef Dec 2018 #26

I'm so sick of turning on MSNBC and listening to everyone gush over Pappy Bush! oldlibdem Dec 2018 #28

I don't understand why you do it then. Kaleva Dec 2018 #32

Who said I sit in front of the "idiot" box all day? oldlibdem Dec 2018 #38

I didn't say you sit in front of the idiot box all day did I? This is what you said: Kaleva Dec 2018 #41

Post removed Post removed Dec 2018 #58

I'm just saying don't let the idiot box control you. Be your own master. Kaleva Dec 2018 #59

jumped to wrong conclusion, removed previous comment still_one Dec 2018 #29

Ok. Tell me who of that generation served as President after GHWB onenote Dec 2018 #34

You are right, I was thinking served in armed forces, not WWII. Thanks for the correction still_one Dec 2018 #52

You should trash this thread. It's an off handed attack based upon your misunderstanding tymorial Dec 2018 #30

+1 BannonsLiver Dec 2018 #40

It's getting pretty gross. tymorial Dec 2018 #51

+2 Kaleva Dec 2018 #42

Abide. Sneederbunk Dec 2018 #31

+ IADEMO2004 Dec 2018 #54

What a semantics war.. LakeArenal Dec 2018 #45

..and I don't believe Carter ever bailed out and killed his crew.... joanbarnes Dec 2018 #55

Carter was in the Naval Academy during WW2 flotsam Dec 2018 #57