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jwirr

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10. One must remember that when Walter Cronkite is talking about left of center the era was already

Reply to madfloridian (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:16 PM

Jan 2015

very leftist. So when he was saying left of center he was probably referring to communism. Us liberal had everything from the center to very liberal covered. We were the center.

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