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Laura PourMeADrink

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36. What I think about is how SO many people on the
Fri Nov 21, 2014, 11:13 PM
Nov 2014

center right (is there a "left right?&quot were behind Obama at the start. What I take from this is that the majority of American people are moved by what I call "emotional rhetoric". That, to me, is what is truly missing - someone who can take the whole healthcare for all message and speak about it in a way that evokes feelings of caring for fellow man. Never once, have I heard anyone speak in those terms. A la Robert Byrd, Mario Cuomo, Ted Kennedy. No wonder the right filled the void making Obamacare a dirty word that they spit out in hate. The giant elephant in the room is that they are espousing disdain for people without insurance and we have not a single voice saying "What, you don't care for the millions who can't see a doctor?" Obama did it last night - about immigrants - but I have not even heard him do the same thing about people without healthcare.

Yes, know the south used to be Dem - but that was before Rush Limbaugh and Fox who ruined it all, huh.

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Recommended LondonReign2 Nov 2014 #1
This must be a lie. Democrats can only win by being Republican-lite. Read it right here on DU. Scuba Nov 2014 #2
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no, Dems win only by sabotaging their own campaigns, because if they win then, uh ... MisterP Nov 2014 #6
Ah...if only all state constituents were as openly liberal..I am Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2014 #12
I would be happy if it were even TRIED in all states...... socialist_n_TN Nov 2014 #20
Good point.. and what you say makes me re-think it all Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2014 #29
Well believe it or not, 80 years or so ago the south........ socialist_n_TN Nov 2014 #35
What I think about is how SO many people on the Laura PourMeADrink Nov 2014 #36
Well I wasn't specifically or necessarily speaking about the south being.... socialist_n_TN Nov 2014 #37
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YES! Just say NO :-) ~nt RiverLover Nov 2014 #34
I did a thread on this after the elecion but some folks here didn't like it... CTyankee Nov 2014 #11
Thank you, CTyankee.. I just love your Gov.. and as stated in my post below.. I have a niece who Cha Nov 2014 #16
Fairfield? CTyankee Nov 2014 #23
It must be Fairfield then.. I haven't been there. She just moved there in July and Cha Nov 2014 #27
So sick of the pretending that it's some bizarre psychological problem, woo me with science Nov 2014 #13
Me too. Pretending protects the status quo. polichick Nov 2014 #14
I'm so glad Gov Dan Malloy is speaking out about this, DV.. Thank you! From your link.. Cha Nov 2014 #15
One more quote from Malloy.. Cha Nov 2014 #17
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Thank you Dan Malloy!!!!!!! RiverLover Nov 2014 #33
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