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In reply to the discussion: I have been on DU for almost nine years now. [View all]DFW
(54,505 posts)You weren't banned from DU, just from the Sanders forum. I got banned from that forum before I even knew it was there. I just responded to some post on the home page, and suddenly found myself banned from this forum I never even knew existed. Some nasty character from New Jersey, who was here for the primaries and then disappeared, proudly announced my banning as if they had just arrested number one on the FBI's ten most wanted list. Since I had never intentionally posted on that forum in the first place, I made sure I never even looked at a post from there again. That way, I was never tempted to have anything further to do with them. I was fine with that, and I'm sure they didn't miss me either. There were surely numerous flies in their bathrooms impatiently waiting to have their wings pulled off. As we say in the South, "not my kind of people."
I never met their candidate, so I had no judgement about him one way or the other.
I quite agree with you on the Republican candidates. I have only met Ford and Bush I, They were OK guys, but Bush I didn't blow me away. His son W graduated from the same high school I did, but he was a few years ahead of me, and I was only there for senior year, so I never met him. My dad knew every president since LBJ, and thru to Clinton, and he had some choice stories about most of them. An old journalist colleague of my dad's knew JFK rather well. She used to tell us stories about him, most of which I have since forgotten. She passed away at 93 a few years back, so I can't go back and ask her. I wish I had taped our meetings. She REALLY had some stories to tell, and she NEVER minced words.