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NanceGreggs

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11. Well, when you're a Republican ...

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:17 AM

Jan 2015

... attempting to passionately put forward your party's brilliant plans for the future, their solutions to the problems of the nation, their sterling record of all they have achieved for America's hard-working middle-class - and there are no such plans, solutions, or record of achievement - you may as well fill the time slot with an incredibly mind-numbing anecdote that will put the audience to sleep before they realize you've got nuthin' to say.

I'll give Joni credit for accomplishing one thing: No one is talking about her hog castration speech tonight. At least she's smart enough to realize that the only way to erase one stupid remark from the public's consciousness is to top it with an even dumber remark.

I believe she was just channeling her inner Michele Bachmann.

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many of us here wore bread bags in the winter [View all] marym625 Jan 2015 OP

I think she either mis-remembered it or told it to a speechwriter Peregrine Took Jan 2015 #1

Could be marym625 Jan 2015 #8

It got lost in translation from one of her servants. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2015 #37

She told the bread-bag story on election night, so she really should have bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #51

She got her story from the Great Depression. Rex Jan 2015 #2

oh! that makes sense marym625 Jan 2015 #7

those weren't plastic bags though. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #13

that's how she got her nickname Enrique Jan 2015 #24

Yes, we put baggies over daughters' shoes elleng Jan 2015 #3

kinda my point marym625 Jan 2015 #5

she wants to kneecap the poor while pretending she used to be poor. she;s a pernicious liar. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #14

That may be true. elleng Jan 2015 #16

Or maybe... yallerdawg Jan 2015 #4

Ah! marym625 Jan 2015 #6

And she "walked beans and fed hogs" too... Contrary1 Jan 2015 #9

doesn't sound poor to me marym625 Jan 2015 #10

On a BUS??? Hmmmph. Wimp. Buns_of_Fire Jan 2015 #17

That's nothing! marym625 Jan 2015 #19

That's bad, but there were also vicious pumas, lurking in the crevasses, Buns_of_Fire Jan 2015 #29

pumas are definitely scary marym625 Jan 2015 #39

You had books? All our lessons were written in chalk on the backs of coal shovels. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #49

And when it rained Bettie Jan 2015 #53

You had shovels, marym625 Jan 2015 #55

You had a furnace? Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #70

touch�! marym625 Jan 2015 #72

That's what I was thinking....what was the point of this 'story', anyway? Especially coming from SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #45

exactly. marym625 Jan 2015 #54

The moral of the story is work hard, azmom Jan 2015 #77

she walked beans? took them for outings? ND-Dem Jan 2015 #15

I wondered the same thing marym625 Jan 2015 #20

Soybeans. murielm99 Jan 2015 #31

oh! marym625 Jan 2015 #40

Ya got me. Contrary1 Jan 2015 #33

Please let me know what you find out marym625 Jan 2015 #41

She also plowed the fields, worked construction with her father, and worked the biscuit line B Calm Jan 2015 #57

Ha! good one. n/t marym625 Jan 2015 #59

Well, when you're a Republican ... NanceGreggs Jan 2015 #11

Oh my dog! marym625 Jan 2015 #12

If you wore bread bags on your feet and a lunch sack as a hat as a kid, in order to keep warm . . . Major Hogwash Jan 2015 #25

LOL.. Yes, when you don't have anything to cough up about your party's contribution in giving the Cha Jan 2015 #35

She's a liar with no real poor life experience. joshcryer Jan 2015 #18

exactly marym625 Jan 2015 #21

She comes across as a total and utter phony; her every utterance brings KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #22

the thing for me is.. Joni Ernst cares nothing about the poor.. less than nothing.. she's the one Cha Jan 2015 #23

Thank you, Cha marym625 Jan 2015 #26

I think Nance stated it well on another thread too.. Cha Jan 2015 #28

yep. marym625 Jan 2015 #38

I wonder how many poor people are laughing at her "liddle ol' po' me" story tonight. Major Hogwash Jan 2015 #27

"She hates poor people, that's why she is a Republican!!!!!!" Cutting to the heart of the matter Cha Jan 2015 #30

She hates poor people because she is a republican. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #46

I think many are marym625 Jan 2015 #60

I grew up in a middle class city in S.Cal. My parents had a large family and things were very tight. C Moon Jan 2015 #32

It's not an uncommon story marym625 Jan 2015 #42

Poor poor poor me ....poor poor pitiful me YOHABLO Jan 2015 #34

Joni's anthem DebJ Jan 2015 #36

Perfect! marym625 Jan 2015 #44

yep. marym625 Jan 2015 #43

Good point! I was thinking that last night too - the bags would go INSIDE. Avalux Jan 2015 #47

I have seen one post on DU marym625 Jan 2015 #58

The plastic bags went INSIDE the boots. HappyMe Jan 2015 #48

or you had those over the shoe kind of boots marym625 Jan 2015 #61

Yeah, the dreaded red galoshes! HappyMe Jan 2015 #63

or those metal buckles marym625 Jan 2015 #66

My dad had the kind with those metal clasps. HappyMe Jan 2015 #67

I don't think they made them marym625 Jan 2015 #68

THANK YOU. I grew up in the 70s, and recall wearing them BETWEEN socks bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #50

Chicago too marym625 Jan 2015 #62

Also, too! ;) You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize what kind of bullwinkle428 Jan 2015 #52

There is at least one post on DU marym625 Jan 2015 #64

In rainy Pacific NW we wore them over shoes Generic Other Jan 2015 #56

Just an inventive way to protect marym625 Jan 2015 #65

Her big grin and tone of voice azmom Jan 2015 #69

Yeah, it sure did. marym625 Jan 2015 #73

Wow, you had bread? deaniac21 Jan 2015 #71

store bought even! marym625 Jan 2015 #74

I did where them one time on the outside only once. dilby Jan 2015 #75

cheap, makeshift ice skates? marym625 Jan 2015 #76