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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 09:48 PM Original message |
How has our country become so petty? so incompetent to solve real problems? |
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Aragorn (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-11-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. No |
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Fireweed247 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
2. great post |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:05 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Those things aren't on the agenda, sorry. The rich don't want to pay for them, |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 10:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. unless we push for change, and I am not talking about President Obama. |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Thanks, your comments are appreciated. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
3. of course we don't. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. "We" are not "caught up" in these things. The M$M tell us we are |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 10:26 AM Response to Reply #4 |
23. it is just that, us vs them. |
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JonLP24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
6. The same people that say torture is ok are saying her joke went over the line |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
7. It's so simple that it's ridiculous - y'all don't listen. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 02:02 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Yes, listening requires paying attention. Not paying attention is the answer to the OP's question. |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. agreed. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 02:36 AM Response to Original message |
9. Your post is good enough to warrant my rec. n/t |
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RushIsRot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 04:08 AM Response to Original message |
10. Ask Fox News. In my mind it's as simple as that. You have the |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
11. You pose a very credible question. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. The power structure, and the public's blind faith in it, has been this way a very long time |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
15. Slavery Didn't End in 1863...The Depression In 1933... |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
16. Corporations have bee allowed to monopolize every sector, especially the media. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
17. So getting a black man as President means we're doing nothing to change things? |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 08:32 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. We shall see - I am not yet convinced, esp. with the way that public attention |
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bighart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
19. My take is that all of this is due to a LACK OF LEADERSHIP |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
20. I don't know if solve is the word I'd use |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
21. You're looking at the past through the "lens of time". |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
24. Short answer: It wasn't an accident |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
25. Imagine if we had a president almost as unserious as the media |
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FatDave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
26. Because nothing can get done without somebody getting paid. |
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blueworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
27. God, I hate to sound like the old, cranky sob I am but... |
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NRaleighLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 12:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I completely agree with you. Sacrifice in this culture? Too many people too spoiled! |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-12-09 02:59 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. There is no virtue to sacrifice when there's no reason for it. |
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