Reply #20: Hehe.. if I had a nickel for every time I saw that thing in print...

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or heard it on the radio... I was actually in my car with one of my kids when Thom Hartmann read it on the air... my kid thought I was a god... LOL

Funny, the first time I saw it reprinted on DU I got angry that it had been "plagiarized" and posted about it. Then some DU'ers smarter than I, told me that I should just be happy it had such legs, and they were right. I let my ego get in the way of seeing that I had really touched a nerve with what turned out to be millions of people. Skinner has contacted me twice with people who wanted to use it in books. It was on the front page of Rosie O'Donnell's website for a few days, Hartmann and someone subbing for Ed Shultz read it on the air. About two weeks ago I saw it again on DU, apparently it was making the rounds on Facebook.

And if you haven't seen the original post, check it out, there is a paragraph at the end that was wisely removed by the people who spread it around. The day I wrote it the tea baggers had had one of their little anti-Obama rallies, complete with racist, badly spelled signs and everything. I was seeing red that day, and you can tell by the way I let the damn tea baggers have it in the last paragraph...

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