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smartpatrol wrote:

George W Bush accidentally voted for Obama! LOL

It would make sense. Why shouldn't he vote for the guy who has basically been an extension of his own term? I understand that Dick Cheney would have voted for Obama, too, but actually finds him a bit too bloodthirsty.

Time always wins.

Hey wait a minute. Most families didn't even have internet when Lincoln was around.

Edited by HolyMoly - November 08 2012 at 10:23

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smartpatrol wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

Hey wait a minute. Most families didn't even have internet when Lincoln was around.

Communist communities were numerous in the North and the Midwest in the 1850s: Fruitlands at Concord, Mass.; the Owenite community of New Harmony, Indiana; the various Amanite communities in Iowa. Emerson's own personal favorite communitarian was Fourier, who inspired a number of communist utopian communities and became the spiritual leader of Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune. Students of the War are well-acquainted with the role of Greeley and his newspaper. They may not be aware that the Tribune had avidly covered the Revolution of 1848, and frequently employed Karl Marx as a correspondent. (In fact, Marx and Engels' book, The Civil War in the U.S., consists of collected articles and dispatches from the Tribune. In those pieces, the two inventors of Communism fret over every Union setback and cheer every Union advance.)

Maybe some nice Kid rock for you

Jim Garten wrote:

smartpatrol wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

Hey wait a minute. Most families didn't even have internet when Lincoln was around.

Whoa, Abe - didn't even know there were any Communists at all during your presidency, let alone commie traitors...

Padraic wrote:

thellama73 wrote:

Padraic wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

^I know. I'd expect him to be more into Stevie Wonder's 80's output. I can almost see him singing along to "I just called to say I love you".

I think some people are good at hearing only what they want to hear and interpret the lyrics to fit their own world view. That's the only explanation for him liking RATM. I just can't figure out otherwise how he could like a band with such a leftist attitude so much.

Maybe he doesn't care and just likes the music? Why do you necessarily have to agree with a band politically?

I'm one of the biggest Henry Cow fans around, but I'm not a Communist. Tongue

That's true. If you only listen to music you agree with politically, us poor conservatives would starve on a diet of Country-Rock and little else.

If my choice was being a Communist or listening to Toby Keith all day, then get me my fur hat comrade.

Why do you think I'm a leftist? I couldn't stand the music of the right.

I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?

I would probably listen to Toby Keith once, if I could get out of being a communist. But more than once, hmmm.

Padriac wrote:

then get me my fur hat comrade.

Edited by HolyMoly - November 08 2012 at 12:22

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I was reading an article the other day about how ironic it was that the Republican's would play Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man when they would enter for a speech. Apparently, Aaron Copland was quite gay and very pro-communist. Here is a version of it. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/republicans-keep-misusing-aaron-coplands-music/58747/

Edited by rushfan4 - November 08 2012 at 12:29