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bhunt70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:36 PM Original message |
a question for those who are against the "priviledged" holding office. |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. I give you Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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Taeger (914 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. They need an experience that ... |
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Burma Jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. I agree wholeheartedly |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Kerry and Gore volunteered for Vietnam so they could start |
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spooky3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that common folk are |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. If John Edwards Jr is a priviledged brat |
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bhunt70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Clarification - I meant that it was the perception held of him. |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:12 PM Response to Reply #3 |
19. those poor trust funders! |
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mhr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's A Question Of Values |
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bhunt70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. ... |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:28 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. can it really be inferred? |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. Mainly because I oppose the idea of Plutocratic rule. It feeds itself. |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
10. There seems to be an unspoken assumption here that unless |
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corporatewhore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. A story of personal experience |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:53 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I think Dean would have had a completely different education |
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corporatewhore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:55 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I am a kucinich supporter |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. It's not relevant to the point I'm making. |
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corporatewhore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. just been alittle jumpy lately hanging out here |
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corporatewhore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. another point i think kerry would know on the surface but really woulndt |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
13. If Gandhi had been a murderer and rapist who served his time |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Incidentally, one of Lincoln's sons was a railroad lawyer who |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. The insulation of privilege is one of the biggest arguments for |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:23 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I'm not sure I'd even say the Edwards grew up with ordinary |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:00 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. How much privilege did you enjoy? (not a snarky question) |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:45 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. That sounds like it would have been Edwards's life if his |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. "I'm not sure which privilege he benefitted from" |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:46 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Find me a candidate less privileged who stand for the same things |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 05:05 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Well, Kucinich for one! |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
18. I have nothing against rich folks... |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:27 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. well let's see if it's only rich folk.... |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 02:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. And of the two rich liberal heros, one was called a class traitor |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:37 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Of the past twelve... |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Isn't it possible |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:11 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Success at other endeavors... |
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WhoCountsTheVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 05:07 PM Response to Reply #30 |
42. Cheney is "successful at other endeavors" |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 05:33 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Did I ever assert any such thing? |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 05:54 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Our error. |
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Dookus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 05:58 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. No, of course I was the dookus |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 06:27 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. No misunderstanding at all. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 09:18 PM Response to Reply #24 |
47. I didn't know Reagan was brought up rich. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
28. It isn't an accident that the most liberal Senators are some . . . |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 03:50 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Who? Wellstone, who couldn't even afford a suit. Or Feingold who, |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:08 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Wellstone is a fluke |
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AP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. We could use more exceptions like Wellstone. |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:48 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. Don't get me wrong |
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genius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
36. I like Kerry. I don't like the system that makes is almost impossible |
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Terwilliger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-08-04 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
37. I need to see evidence that you're a socialist |
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