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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:48 PM Original message |
Poll question: So, what is your personal tripwire? Your line in the sand? |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
1. passed it months ago |
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aquamarina (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Me too |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
18. Agreed |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
44. I mostly didn't have that problem. |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. That was the begining |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
37. Absolutely. |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:56 PM Original message |
I remember one nite after the pres gave a speech |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Boom-shaka-laka-laka |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 01:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
57. Yep, me too. |
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abelenkpe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. ss |
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wtbymark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. I think it was the first Gulf War n/t |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. Tripwire for whom? Congress? Obama? nt |
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beforeyoureyes (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. Need a 'already passed it ages ago' option |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
7. passed it some time ago...nt |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
8. I'm pretty much at the tipping point with the tax thing, but if the bottom line |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 07:27 AM Response to Reply #8 |
61. There is really no connection between income taxes & SS. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
10. Donnie mcclurkin -- I voted for O. Any way. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
11. Already past it. n/t |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
12. Being lectured to that we needed to "move forward" from prosecuting torture. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:05 PM Original message |
That was another one. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not listed. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. Increases in my property taxes is my line in the sand |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. Cuts to social security |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
17. It's not about that |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. Ratcheting up the occupation and murder in the ME. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. You're setting it up so that there has to be some one thing |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:09 PM Response to Original message |
21. combined teacher/union bashing, with a very evident agenda, here at DU, of all places |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. War. |
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jannyk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
23. I was done at No Public Option and Mandatory, For Profit Insurance. nt |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. No Public Option - or even serious discussion of it in conference |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. Selling out health care to the corporations... |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:18 PM Response to Original message |
26. "THERE'S NOT A DIME'S WORTH OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN................." |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
27. It was Arne Duncan and the race to the bottom. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. I hadn't QUITE reached it then, but the refusal of raising wages for Fed workers |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
28. Mine was Honduras. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #28 |
50. Mine, too (see my reply below)... |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 01:29 AM Response to Reply #28 |
59. +1 nt |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
29. The real question is "once crossed, do you admit you'll move your 'line in the sand'?" |
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immune (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
48. Good question!!! |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
30. It's the aggregate of assaults on the less fortunate. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:53 PM Response to Reply #30 |
68. Thank you. We are mostly forgotten. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:32 PM Response to Original message |
31. Citizens United. |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
32. Really hard to say. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
33. Misuse of the apostrophe |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. whats' your problem? |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
35. Cuts to Social Security (which WE paid into for many years), but ALSO tax cuts for |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
36. Does "line in the sand" mean that you will not vote for Obama in 2012? |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:57 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. That line does not work anymore for some of us. |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. I think everyone defines that differently. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
39. The tax cut thing would be a direct breaking of a promise |
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Luciferous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
40. Mine was health care |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
43. 3 cheerleaders walk into a bar. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
45. immoral wars of aggression.... |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
46. Polls that don't define their terms or questions adequately |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #46 |
63. Define the terms in a way that works for you. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. For Obama it would be actively anti-choice stance, working to overturn roe v wade |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:27 PM Response to Reply #64 |
73. Thank you. That was a really useful contribution. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
47. Mine was when he said he would escalate the war in Afghanistan. |
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DutchLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
49. November 5th, 2009: Obama recognizes the new coup regime in Honduras... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 11:35 PM Response to Reply #49 |
53. Nov. 5 |
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
51. When Rahm called us Fucking Retarded |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:47 PM Response to Reply #51 |
65. Can you pull up that quote? In context? Because he was calling a suggestion retarded, IIRC. |
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Nite Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
52. Real healthcare reform did |
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Steely_Dan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-03-10 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
54. Well...I'm Pretty Much Done... |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
55. Trashing the Fourth Amendment |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 01:09 AM Response to Original message |
56. He crossed it with the bogus "health care reform" corporate welfare bill |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
58. honestly, none of the dems make me happy (i mean on a presidential level) |
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BzaDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
60. The Democratic nominee becoming more conservative than the Republican nominee. n/t |
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Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
62. The ongoing wars. The rest is just more piss on the cake. n/t |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
66. No "Other"? |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
67. A combination of about a dozen of these things and the general willingness to shit on Progressives |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
69. My heart was broken when torture was given a pass. . . |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:04 PM Response to Reply #69 |
71. GITMO IS STILL NOT CLOSED |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
70. Actively working to supress all legal action against Bush and Cheney |
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AndrewP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
72. I have a few, not just one |
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