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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

(146,287 posts)

8. Yeah, well, we all have our priorities.

Reply to Baobab (Reply #7)

Fri May 13, 2016, 02:49 PM

May 2016

BTW, I don't respond to unsolicited DU Mail, so don't expect a reply.

Right now, I don't have time to dig into the issues you raise, either. Sorry.

As for Frank Zappa, I've never seen him as a philosophical authority, although I enjoyed much of his music.

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Delegates who go to convention should be enabled to negotiate better party platform planks! [View all] Baobab May 2016 OP

I'm sure words on a piece of paper are going to be oh so convincing. n/t Skwmom May 2016 #1

Delegates aren't the platform committee. CrowCityDem May 2016 #2

Yes. Lobby the fuck out of them, as well as the candidates. n/t Orsino May 2016 #3

Delegates will be voting on the platform. MineralMan May 2016 #4

Why the war on public healthcare and public higher education? - not just at home,all around the worl Baobab May 2016 #5

I have no idea. I haven't seen the proposed platform, either. MineralMan May 2016 #6

Wow, I dont even know where to begin. Frank Zappa said "The rights to you have already been sold". Baobab May 2016 #7

Yeah, well, we all have our priorities. MineralMan May 2016 #8

since those deals are irreversible we'll have plenty of time to ruminate about them in the future Baobab May 2016 #9