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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:28 PM Original message |
Sec. Clinton was asked on 60 Minutes, "Is America in decline?" What says DU? n/t |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
1. I say we're UP... |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
2. Ohhhhh, this is an easy one. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Sorry, but here's a whole new crop of assholes to replace them. |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. But usually with different shortcomings |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:58 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Nothing changes. |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. That has to be the stupidest thing I have read. |
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pecwae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:34 AM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Oh, I don't know. |
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Golden Raisin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 09:20 PM Response to Reply #28 |
41. Nah, You're obviously not aware |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not just America; all of industrial civilization is in decline. |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Industrial civilization *as we know it* |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Yes, we WILL do the right thing. |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Let's work to avoid that... |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Can't be avoided. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. If it happens I hope it is longer than 25 years because I may live that long. |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. No more so than any other Republic that |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Meanwhile beggaring and oppressing its own population |
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tomg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 08:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
30. I think it is going to be choice |
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JanusAscending (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. I missed it!! |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Do you believe that Sec. Clinton could or would give her true opinion? |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. GWB put us into one hell of a hole |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Gallows humor and sarcasm to follow... |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:54 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Conservative health care reform, that would be called an |
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Pholus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Absolutely! |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Like die quickly n/t |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yes. We aren't strong at home and we're trying to be the world police. NT |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. We've been in decline for quite a while. nt |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
21. Thanks to Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and NAFTA..yeah, I'd say so. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. And these guys* voted |
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Rage for Order (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
22. Of course we are |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
23. I wonder if the Romans realized when Rome was in decline? I think we are. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 07:37 AM Response to Reply #23 |
35. I think average Romans realized they were in deep doodoo |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. Only an America in Decline could |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:56 PM Original message |
it was for 8 years... ask me again after the next election |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
26. Heh. We've been here before |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:16 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Have we been exactly here before? I highly doubt it. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. I like to consider it a correction. |
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Mudoria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
33. Not at all |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 08:05 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. My whole lifetime in America has been traumatic |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. We "were" a resilient country, now we're just a polarized country with each side protecting its turf |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
37. Most major disciplines of the (so called) civilization are in sharp decline |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
39. NO - Great change, certainly - entering an era of new technology in our |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-10-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
40. We're not the only industrialized nation in the west anymore |
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