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1976 all over again
self | 11-05-2008 | jweaks

Posted on 11/05/2008 11:56:58 AM PST by JWinNC

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1 posted on 11/05/2008 11:56:58 AM PST by JWinNC
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To: JWinNC

It may be 1776 soon. That’s the rumblings I’m hearing.


2 posted on 11/05/2008 11:59:04 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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I have been thinking 1968, only the roles are reversed. The candidate talking anti-war got elected ‘now’ and ‘later’.


3 posted on 11/05/2008 12:01:02 PM PST by southlake_hoosier (.... One Nation, Under God.......)
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To: JWinNC

Hillary will challenge BHO in 2012.

He’s in over his head now. Two years from now will be a good Republican year.


4 posted on 11/05/2008 12:01:19 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Democrats still want to get Pres. Bush and/or VP Cheney; there might be show trials in Feb09)
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To: JWinNC

I have been thinking 1968, only the roles are reversed. The candidate talking anti-war got elected ‘then’ and ‘later’.


5 posted on 11/05/2008 12:01:22 PM PST by southlake_hoosier (.... One Nation, Under God.......)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I hear ya!


6 posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:35 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: JWinNC

I believe it will be a lot like the late 70’s, we already have had the gas lines and we will all be wearing sweaters. I am looking forward to the 80’s already.


7 posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:39 PM PST by YdontUleaveLibs (Reason is out to lunch. How may I help you?)
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Absolutely agree. Same feeling now as I had when Carter beat Ford. I'm not sure we can recover from this one.

"Where is my Reagan? Don't say it's John McCain. Where have all the conservatives gone?"

8 posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:44 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Jimmah Carter cubed. Obama, the only man in America who can make Hillary Clinton look good.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

More like 1861.


9 posted on 11/05/2008 12:03:13 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (Linux FTW!)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

I’m up for that!


10 posted on 11/05/2008 12:03:57 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: YdontUleaveLibs

w00t! Mullets all around!


11 posted on 11/05/2008 12:03:57 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (Linux FTW!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Me too. :)


12 posted on 11/05/2008 12:04:16 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (Linux FTW!)
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To: JWinNC

The novelty of a black president will soon wear off.


13 posted on 11/05/2008 12:04:34 PM PST by libh8er
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
It may be 1776 soon. That’s the rumblings I’m hearing.

I hope you're right. I fear those rumblings sound like 1861.

14 posted on 11/05/2008 12:04:41 PM PST by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: JWinNC

I see obama and the democrats raising taxes on the “evil” corporations, and as those taxes always get passed on to us, I see a period of inflation.

I remember Carter and the inflation that his policies brought about. It was my first year of marriage, and we had no cash. It was tough going to the grocery store and seeing prices rise every week.

What are the best casual defences that one can take against inflation on a daily basis? Buy stuff now, before the price rises? What will rise with obama’s priorities, besides energy? I fully expect my electric bill to go through the roof.


15 posted on 11/05/2008 12:04:50 PM PST by I still care (A Republic - if you can keep it. - Ben Franklin)
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To: Finalapproach29er

Look if they push the fairness doctrine through, you might not know what is going on. The MSM will not report bad things on Obama and The democratic congress. They are in the tank for them!


16 posted on 11/05/2008 12:04:56 PM PST by tallyhoe
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Nice piece. There are certainly many parallels between that election and the one just concluded, not the least of which is the emergence of an unknown, untested novice (at least Carter had been a governor) and his subsequent immersion into an increasingly dangerous world.

I was 18 that year, voting in my first Presidential election in my freshman year in college, and cast an absentee ballot for Jerry Ford. I recall working at our campus radio station the night Carter was elected, as we got the news on yellow tractor paper freshly spit out of a giant, four-foot tall UPI teletype machine.

I ripped off the sheet and brought it over to the news desk, and distinctly recall thinking: "Oh, well. It's a fresh start for the country".

Yeah, that worked out well.

17 posted on 11/05/2008 12:09:07 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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To: YdontUleaveLibs

Does that mean that in a few years, we’ll have another Reagan, and hair metal, ripped jeans and big hair all make a comeback?

Please make it so!!! That would rock!


18 posted on 11/05/2008 12:09:24 PM PST by RockinRight (I pledge to give Obama the same respect that the Democrats gave Bush.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I agree but we will recover and fight on.. conservatives have to rebuild over the next few years. I believe we have some up and coming leadership with Jindal and Palin.


19 posted on 11/05/2008 12:09:47 PM PST by TwS88 (McCain/Palin 08! (Palin 2012))
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To: uglybiker

I hope you’re right. I fear those rumblings sound like 1861

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2125686/posts?page=36#36


20 posted on 11/05/2008 12:10:16 PM PST by southlake_hoosier (.... One Nation, Under God.......)
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