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2016 Postmortem

redstatebluegirl

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4. She seemed to find an issue with the words girl and boy. Well I have a husband I love to bits

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 27, 2016, 05:00 PM

Jul 2016

who calls me his girl, we are of that generation and got married at about that age. She needs to calm down. Even Brian Williams was trying to calm her down last night. You should google it.

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Bill Clinton's Speech: "He Had Them At 'In the Spring of 1971, I Met a Girl..." [View all] reggieandlee Jul 2016 OP

Yes, and Rachel made way too much out of that. redstatebluegirl Jul 2016 #1

I didn't hear Rachel, but I heard him call himself Hortensis Jul 2016 #3

She seemed to find an issue with the words girl and boy. Well I have a husband I love to bits redstatebluegirl Jul 2016 #4

I'd rather google you and your husband. That's sweet. Hortensis Jul 2016 #5

Thanks! We do love each other like kids :-). redstatebluegirl Jul 2016 #10

:) Hope Bill and Hillary are close and Hortensis Jul 2016 #16

Rachael Maddow is awesome, but loses perspective occasionally Bradical79 Jul 2016 #9

I am in my forties, and we say "girl" and "boy" all the time to refer to ourselves in our twenties anneboleyn Jul 2016 #14

I loved that line & I'd be willing to bet... Little Star Jul 2016 #2

It was great. Music Man Jul 2016 #6

Yes, to your whole post. Welcome to DU, Music Man. n/t pnwmom Jul 2016 #13

Bubba nailed it tgards79 Jul 2016 #7

It was the classic boy meets girl story. It was sweet and it was his personal remembrance. procon Jul 2016 #8

I like Rachel but... tgards79 Jul 2016 #11

Yes. I was hoping he'd begin at that point exactly -- when they met as young, idealistic pnwmom Jul 2016 #12

That's when Rachel had a break with reality workinclasszero Jul 2016 #15