Congratulations America!

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

It would be no contest. Clintons wife would eat her young.

Rumor was there were two kids at one time.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Only thing she is doing is trying to get her ass in the oval office.

She'd better hope that the doorway is wide.

[Twodogs]

Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie

Yeah, the Republicans are noble, but that bitch tried to get everyone access to health care. Ruthless I tell ya!

Hey Eddie, since you're such a saint, can I send you my insurance bills?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

I'm guessing that Rob and I are the old codgers here, perhaps by a good bit. The thing that gives us, beyond a little "arthuritis" is some perspective. In our lifetimes we've seen America, a great nation of unlimited possibilities, with a people who cared about one another, who were proud to be Americans, become a small and narrow place where party affiliation is more important than national identity and where "individual rights" trumps the collective good every time.

When I think of the America I grew up in and compare it to the one my grandchildren are burdened with it makes me want to weep. We are going to "me" ourselves into irrelevance first and oblivion last.

John

Agreed John, I did not come down here expecting to participate in the demise of a great nation. I thought I was coming to a place where people stood tall and who were IMHO among the most generous people in the world. Now I look about and see little people scurrying from one rat hole to another, biting anything within reach.

And Jesus wept.

Yet look at what you are doing in Haiti, men on the ground, a hospital ship bigger than the Bethesda Hospital, if you do it for perfect strangers why can't you do it for your fellow citizens? This really has been one of the biggest disappointments of my life, I had though better of you.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Off topic, but have you ever heard Steve Earl's "Condi Condi?"

Regards,

D-Ray

No - I'll have to look for it, thanks. I did read the lyrics.

Originally Posted by merrylander

Agreed John, I did not come down here expecting to participate in the demise of a great nation.

One Senate seat, and we're finished?

Pete

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

One Senate seat, and we're finished?

Pete

I gather you chose not to read the rest, that's fine.

[piece-itpete]

Sorry I should've made it clear, it was more in general but your post was last.

Still, I thought Obama was going to save us all. 'He was going to bring balance to the force!'

We have the SAME basic government all these years, but now we're through?

Pete

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Sorry I should've made it clear, it was more in general but your post was last.

Still, I thought Obama was going to save us all. 'He was going to bring balance to the force!'

We have the SAME basic government all these years, but now we're through?

Pete

If you think that the government is functioning now the same as it was say 15 - 20 years ago you are on a different planet than the rest of us.

If you have yet to detect the viscious attitudes expressed by people as compared to that same period, I have no idea what I can tell you.

[piece-itpete]

I know the Dems hated Reagan, the GOP hated Clinton, etc....

Pete

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Still, I thought Obama was going to save us all. 'He was going to bring balance to the force!'

Unfortunately, a lot of his supporters thought so but Obama said it himself when he said, "We are the change we've been waiting for."

We have the SAME basic government all these years, but now we're through?

Pete

No, we don't. A series of laws and Supreme Court decisions, plus the explosion in lobbyists and corporate money have changed our government horribly. We've gone from the Founding Fathers to the Funding Fathers.

John