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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:38 PM Original message |
Would you have voted for Eleanor Roosevelt if she had run for president? |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. I was a bit young at the time... |
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patricia92243 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. I would have loved to vote for her - first woman prez, humanitarian - what's not to love?? |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Might I add |
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patricia92243 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
26. I don't see Hillary's name mentioned in the OP. n/t |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Yeah, but everyone knew what I was talking about anyway. |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
3. I have no idea |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. Touche |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Not really |
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bornskeptic (951 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-28-07 09:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
42. minor correction |
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dsc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-28-07 03:49 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. damn McKinley was death on a stick |
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pocoloco (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Hillary is not even close to being in Eleanor's league! |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. As I suppose this is a vieled response to those who are unenthusiastic about Hillary, I would like |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. Yes, I would vote for her. She was far more liberal than her husband and she worked with the real |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. Had I been alive... |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
11. Sure. |
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StudentsMustUniteNow (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. Love FDR, strongly dislike Eleanor |
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Bullet1987 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Very few people on this board I doubt we alive during that time...lol |
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Totally Committed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. I just read your definition of a "Liberal" in another thread... |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. Hey kid, Eleanor was one of my Grandmothers best friends and Eleanor was |
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StudentsMustUniteNow (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:42 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Jean Edward Smith's latest FDR biography |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:53 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Thanks .I consider my grandmother a primary source. |
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StudentsMustUniteNow (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Well the quotes are directly from Ms. Roosevelt's letters |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 08:21 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. I think you should know that Eleanor was one of the only people to |
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StudentsMustUniteNow (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 09:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Her letters at one point contained harshly anti-Semitic statements |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 09:46 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Really? Well she was of her time and The author of the biography you quote seems |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-30-07 08:51 AM Response to Reply #29 |
46. She was anti-Semetic when young and Saw the Light. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-30-07 08:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
45. Uh, no. She supported Israel and her best bud - Elinor Morgenthau was Jewish. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
13. sure, Eleanor was very cool! |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. Of course. And the analogy doesn't hold anyway. |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. If it was meant to be a trick (it wasn't), it wasn't a very good one, was it? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:46 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. I stand corrected as to your motivations. |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Much appreciated! |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 05:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. Hell yes! We would have had a Civil Rights bill of 1954... |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:02 PM Response to Original message |
17. Yes, because she was a true progressive. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
19. I wouldn't have decided not to vote for her simply because she was married to FDR |
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tech3149 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
20. Ms Roosevelt was responsible for a neighboring community's existence |
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MichiganVote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. Well Teddy Roosevelt was a republican and Franklin R. came some time after him as a Dem. |
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ulysses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. sure. |
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Ethelk2044 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. No |
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MGKrebs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
33. If she could convince me she was the most capable. |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
35. What she Did for Marian Anderson Alone |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 09:33 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. AMEN! |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 09:47 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Right on.And to think some posted she was an elitest and anti Semite! GRRR> |
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TygrBright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-27-07 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
40. Against who? n/t |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-28-07 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
41. Absolutely, without question. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-30-07 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
44. Yes, I would have. |
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