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California, Washington state, the upper midwest, New England, parts of the mid Atlantic and Maryland are progressive. The rest of the nation is not.

Jimmy Carter got 49 Electoral votes in 1980. Walter Mondale got 10 in 1984. Dukakis got 111 in 1988, the party having somewhat recovered from the debacle of Vietnam and Carter.

I think that at some level, we're going to see a replay of those years of Democrats in the political wilderness. Yes, they controlled the House during many of them but the party itself was very different from what it is today. Tip O'Neill and Danny Rostenkowski are long gone, replaced by Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer who supposedly isn't a bad guy but who most of the time isn't listened to since he's become fairly moderate.

It's a well known Beltway factoid that Nancy and Steny grew up and served as pages together in the House many years ago. She's from the old Italian neighborhood in Baltimore and he was always the working class kid who made good:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22160.html

Ruki says

Yeah...and here's a pic of Reagan in his younger days too!

Yes, Obama smoked weed, a drug that should be legal by any rational criteria. Bush snorted coke, a drug that should not be legal. Additionally, no person with common sense would look at George W. Bush and say, "that guy never smoked weed".

Now, I have no problem with bringing up the absolute hypocrisy of Obama in continuing the war on drugs when that very war would have prevented him from becoming president or even an elected official had he been prosecuted for his drug use. Yes, that's very hypocritical. But be consistent in pointing out the hypocrisy of both side least you become a hypocrite yourself.

By the way, that picture just makes Obama look like an ad for Banana Republic.

I thought that was
Chris Thomas King

CaptainShuddup says

Chris Thomas King

It could also be a Herman Cain ad.

http://www.qsFEpPB_gPk

Ruki says

How am I being a hypocrite? All I did was post a picture.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why you posted that picture. You wanted people to think Obama is unworthy to hold office because he's a drug user. The hypocrisy is not also applying that standard to George Bush, Newt Gingrich, and a host of other republicans.

Ruki says

Dan8267 says

Reagan was a socialist who hated America, and I heard he was born in Kenya.

You do realize that I was making fun of the republican tendency to make Obama out to be something he's not, right?

Ruki says

Obama WAS unworthy to old the office he has before Day One

On that we agree. The problem is we don't agree on why, and why is more important than what.

we really need an emotican to determine scarcasm...

jan says

we really need an emotican to determine scarcasm...

Ruki says

Oh yes...the Holocaust of the Unborn that has slain more people since Roe v. Wade than Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot combined.

Should be smoking weed

or may be the world for you starts at EST and ends at PST

forcing mothers to give birth to kill their babies by sending them to war is inhumane

Its the same ppl who complain about welfare babies and turn around and want to force ppl to have unwanted babies

except america the world has moved on, about half a century back, about women's right to bear kids..we seem to be moving towards a new Sharia of the newcons and rednecks

He'll have the special.

zzyzzx says

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