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2008-12-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2008-12-19 08:50|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Note to Donks, 1965 was at least two generations ago. History is not kind to those who seek to turn back the clock to 'golden' times. Retro is for music and interior decorating, not building a vibrant culture and society.

Posted by P2k on holiday 2008-12-19 09:30|| 2008-12-19 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Caroline..... recently made it known that she would like to be appointed to Hillary Clinton's vacant Senate seat.

New slippers and a pony as well? No prooooblem.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-19 10:20|| 2008-12-19 10:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Another Note to Donks:
If the states not bordering the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (and that's a lot of them) finally got their fill of you, you'd be toast. I'd like to see enough of a kerfuffle happen to drive that thought home.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-19 11:29|| 2008-12-19 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4
Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy both suck.

Posted by Penguin 2008-12-19 12:42|| 2008-12-19 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Looking forward to the SNL skit.

Posted by DoDo 2008-12-19 12:46|| 2008-12-19 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 "Ms. Kennedy has much going for her. As a public figure, she carries the glamour and poignancy of her family"

Is this eulogy, Poignancy of her family, reference to the narrative of one familys life long commitment to public service? Perhaps its the obligatory accolade bestowed upon the elite caste that sprung from Papa Joes loins? Nawww Its code forshe aint just rich folksthe lady is wealthy. And its the kind of liberal wealth that gave Harry Reid a boner when he recently proclaimed his endorsement. Not to be confused with the self-made wealth of someone like Mitt Romney that, as Harry told us, automatically qualifies him as out of touch with hard working Americans.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-12-19 12:57|| 2008-12-19 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 "Sweet Caroline", eh?

I wonder if this one guy in the Phoenix area (can't remember his name, sorry), still has that song as part of his audience participation segment. It went something like this:

Performer, singing the chorus: "Sweet Caroline"
Audience: "KISS MY ASS!"

(Something I don't think Ms Kennedy would want to hear on her "listening tour", I think.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-12-19 13:39|| 2008-12-19 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8
Full court press to annoint her to the seat, but ex-Gov Mario Cuomo's son wants it too and is highly regarded in NY. He even knows where upstate NY is and what they do there.

We'll see .....

Posted by lotp 2008-12-19 14:22|| 2008-12-19 14:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I was in high school when JFK was killed. In 4 hours he was transformed from a fairly unpopular President to a Saintly transformational being. That was when I first began to distrust the media.

Posted by tipover 2008-12-19 15:21|| 2008-12-19 15:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Local Seattle fluff piece described Caroline's dad as "..the martyred President..."
don't think so.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-12-19 16:03|| 2008-12-19 16:03|| Front Page Top

#11 I think the name of Jello Biafra's lefty loony band describes the best type of Kennedy.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-12-19 16:48|| 2008-12-19 16:48|| Front Page Top

#12 "Sweet Caroline" > Whoa - now I've got the tune humming in my head.

All together men, wid feeling,"WINTERHAWK......"!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-19 19:12|| 2008-12-19 19:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Forgive, MADONNA, forgive - I HAVE KNOWINGLY SINNED IN YOUR EYES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-12-19 19:15|| 2008-12-19 19:15|| Front Page Top

#14 "Ms. Kennedy has much going for her. As a public figure, she carries the glamour and poignancy of her family..."

Poignancy is a kind of liqueur, I think. I guess they are talking about Papa Joe being a bootlegger.

Posted by SteveS 2008-12-19 20:58|| 2008-12-19 20:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Ima thinkrn Poignancy is like Pregnancy, only with Poigs? Ship could correct me

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-12-19 21:03|| 2008-12-19 21:03|| Front Page Top

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