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In reply to the discussion: A bank teller today illustrated how Bill Clinton may provide a "halo effect" for Hillary [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)54. Did you have a point? Or did you just see an ad hom about me and decide to pile on?
I ask because it will make a difference in how I respond. So, if you had a point, please be more specific because it's far from obvious to me.
Especially since Josh used the term further down the thread himself later in the thread and also admitted he has no problem with use of the term. (I wonder: Will you be taking that up with josh down thread, since you apparently do seem to have a problem with it?)
Meanwhile, no, I did not call the young man anything. Never met him. I referred to him as a low info voter in a post on a discussion board that, if he exists, he will probably never see and in which he is totally anonymous.
And, as my Reply 10, the very post to which you are replying, said:
I have no disdain for the 20 something young man described in the Op, whether real or invented.
I have posted many times that I paid little to no attention to politics until about 2004. I never even heard of DLC until after Obama was elected. I have no disdain for myself on that score. I, too was younger, had my hands full, and was relying greatly on my belief that just supporting Democrats and voting Democratic was doing my part to fix what was wrong with America. I too, labored until the delusion that all bad things in this country came from Republicans. I'm certainly not disdaining anyone, real or fictional for that.
Luckily, josh, your shameful tactics don't work with anyone but your choir, if at all. The rest of us see you.
Now, do you have anything at all that is true to say about my post? Anything at all factual or analytical? Anything that is not an ad hom that you derived from pretending my post was something other than it obviously was?
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A bank teller today illustrated how Bill Clinton may provide a "halo effect" for Hillary [View all]
Gloria
Apr 2015
OP
IOW, you ran into a low info voter who never heard of NAFTA, repeal of Glass Steagall,
merrily
Apr 2015
#1
Did you have a point? Or did you just see an ad hom about me and decide to pile on?
merrily
Apr 2015
#54
I thought the youth vote in general are most likely to vote Democratic and older white men
merrily
Apr 2015
#69
that doesn't change the fact that things were better under Clinton than under republicans
JI7
Apr 2015
#23
The reasons they were better matter. Housing prices were great under Dimson--until
merrily
Apr 2015
#28
Are you covering that bet? 'Cause I would have bet no Democratic President would have
merrily
Apr 2015
#33
The Reagan administration caused the whole mess with its gigantic budget deficits.
pnwmom
Apr 2015
#58
Gee, pwnmom, guess you missed that teensy bit about Clinton's having ended welfare "as we know it."
merrily
Apr 2015
#59
That "teensy bit" doesn't cancel out the gigantic whopper about the Reagan "tax increases"
pnwmom
Apr 2015
#60
Reagan and Bush both increased taxes and fees. Is your claim that revenues are irrelevant?
merrily
Apr 2015
#62
The Reagan administration produced unprecedented, huge deficits despite whatever
pnwmom
Apr 2015
#64
You pretty much said it all. Wonder what the "halo effect" will be when the skeletons in Bill's closet are dragged out for all to see.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2015
#66
Thanks for sharing that. I seem to recall, when Hillary was first confronted with her lie, she doubled down...
InAbLuEsTaTe
Apr 2015
#73
This personal experience by the OP illustrates the power of perception, and how it can benefit
BlueCaliDem
Apr 2015
#76
FWIW, if anything, Sanders has been mentioning a period of the last 35 or so years, as
merrily
Apr 2015
#38
josh would much rather focus on what we post about this young guy than on any inconvenient issue
merrily
Apr 2015
#12
I think in the privacy of the voting booth, a lot of Republican women will cross the line.
lostnfound
Apr 2015
#17
Hillary is bringing my batshit teabag sister back. It's about women and gay rights for her, the rest
freshwest
Apr 2015
#48
We went to high school with and knew people who were openly gay in the sixties, worked with them,
freshwest
Apr 2015
#55
No, those were my words about the Catch 22 (& similar), as LITERALLY anyone can discern.
merrily
Apr 2015
#26
That's very different from knowing what the national economy was like at age 10
merrily
Apr 2015
#63