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Gretchensdad - > -> Political History Quiz The blog begins after I post the answers.
Political History Quiz The blog begins after I post the answers.

A little history lesson:  If you don't know the answer make your best guess.  Answers will be posted later today or after a sufficient flurry of you all posting your answers.    Who said it?  

[You may be shocked by the answers.]

 1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

 A.  Karl Marx
 B.  Adolph Hitler
 C.  Joseph Stalin
 D.  None of the above

 2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few... and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

 A.  Lenin
 B.  Mussolini
 C.  Idi Amin
 D.  None of the Above

 3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

 A.  Nikita Khrushev
 B.  Jose f Goebbels
 C.  Boris Yeltsin
 D.  None of the above

 4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

 A.  Mao Tse Dung
 B.  Hugo Chavez
 C.  Kim Jong Il
 D.  None of the above

 5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

 A.  Karl Marx
 B.  Lenin
 C.  Molotov
 D.  None of the above

 6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

 A.  Pinochet
 B.  Milosevic
 C.  Saddam Hussein
 D.  None of the above

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posted by countygirl on Nov 29, 2007 at 03:43 PM
If Hilary was a strong woman, IMO she would have dumped the unfaithful bastard she calls husband and tried to go at this all by herself.  Staying with Bill was a political move. Being a woman and running for president was hard enough, being a single woman running would be suicide. Bill has a following...she knew this. If she stayed with him chances are she'd get all those votes. If she left, maybe not. Olivia, you said that you believe she's a wife and mother first before a politician . I say you are wrong. I say if she really was a wife and mother first...she would have left his a**, but the politician in her is what kept her from doing that.
posted by Colitas on Nov 29, 2007 at 03:46 PM
Olivia and Bigdog, Thank you so so very much.  I talked to "our friend" and she loved the hug.  It is a small world and I am sure you know our friend is the best.  She has worked soooo hard and I am so proud of her.  I am also so grateful for her "support" people.  BTW, the meeting went very well with the mother and is still going good.  Thanks again so much. 
posted by Joty on Nov 29, 2007 at 03:54 PM

Had the Clintons been around in the 40s, 50s or 60s, none of these "facts" would have ever seen the light of day. As I said, the media used to protect and keep secrets, now all they want is to be the first to dish the garbage. My husband and I had the best 8 years of our lives under Clinton. I could not have cared less how many blow jobs he got. No one else has impressed me or convinced me that my vote should go to anyone but Hillary, and so far, that's where it's going.

Yes, Olivia, do let's have tea and decide what to do with all these troublesome men.  :)

posted by bigdog on Nov 29, 2007 at 08:38 PM
Colitas i was happy to give Shannon a big bigdog hug for you. She is good people and we are proud to call her our friend. I think she will make a great mother. She deserve this.
posted by bigdog on Nov 29, 2007 at 08:57 PM
I also enjoyed the Clinton years. I will be Voting for Hilary myself. It will be a proud vote. After eight years of the village idiot I'm ready for A President that will stop killing people and to start leading our country in a better direction. It is great to see some peoples reaction of Hilary Clinton. Watch hannity or listen to Rush and all they can do and say is bad, mean, hurtful and nasty things about Hilary. And then they claim to be morally superior. They say that there not worried about Hilary winning the presidency but there action tell a different story.They say that the demarcate don't have a plan, well either do they other then to belittle Hilary.haha.
posted by olivia on Nov 30, 2007 at 04:53 AM

I'm sure those of us with kids have enjoyed the hell out ot the Earned Income Child tax.  A lot of us would have been sunk if not for that tax. I thought it was Clinton who started that. (Lack of political knowledge may get the best of me on this one).  There are a lot of "strong" women out there who have stayed with their cheating husbands. Hillary is one of them, why is it she's singled out.  Because she is in it for political reason?  I give her the benefit of doubt and say that she values her marriage and know that this type of thing happens all over the world and it is a forgiveable act.  (Not for all, but for a lot).

None of us know this woman.  None of us know the other candidates.  We read this stuff written about public people and take it for gospel.  It seems that a lot of you read this trash and suck up every word without wondering "what's in it for the writer".  Everybody has their shit.  Not one of us who come on here and comment don't have something that they would rather the whole nation not hear about.  If I were "somebody", I'm sure that someone I thought was close to me could make millions off my trash and in order to guarantee millions, they might have to add their own little ideas into some of it.  So "tell all friends" are the in the group of those I don't trust.  Women who have had sex with the President and then decide to write a book really sends the bells off in my head.  Their are a lot of President's who have been unfaithful.  Why have we singled Clinton out in our heads as the worst of them? 

I'll be voting for change.  IMO, that would be Hillary.  Hopefully the Secret Service will be able to safely keep the kooks away from her.   

posted by Joty on Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30 AM

Well said Olivia! 

Countygirl stated if Hillary was a strong woman she would have left Bill. Not true. A strong woman stays and fights for her marriage if that's what she believes in. I am one of those women. I've been married for 27 years. My husband "cheated" during year 15. I was NOT going to throw everything away because he dipped his wick. It was sex, not love.

I could supply links to all the positive Hillary sites, but why? I am not going to change Starbuck's or other anti-Hillary minds anymore than his links will change mine. I think Starbucks is titilated by all the scandal myself. He hates the Clintons for whatever reasons so he focuses on them - there isn't any politician completely scandal free. He has yet to come out with his candidate, why is that?

posted by eekitsaspider on Nov 30, 2007 at 09:30 AM

Joty I guess I would be a weak woman if my Husband cheated on me. Cheating on your spouse is not a forgiveable act in my book. If my husband cheated on me it only proves to me that he did not value our marriage enough and that he does not have any respect for me. To me a strong woman is one that would tell her husband to go to hell.

posted by countygirl on Nov 30, 2007 at 09:32 AM
Joty, I won't get into this because I don't want to offend you, but I think you are wrong. So we can agree to disagree. As for hating the Clinton's, I don't, but I don't think Hilliary is the right one to run our country either. I don't think many others are either, but This BLOG is about Hilliary. Many people feel that if you are in the public eye you went in knowing you would be scrutinized over every detail of your life.( Look at all the celebrities these days) Clinton had to have known this going in to it so I don't feel sorry that his multiple affairs were broadcast everywhere. He should have known better. What set him apart from any other cheater out there? Nothing other than the fact that he was the leader of our country. What ever happened to leading by example? You can say the same about Bush, but for different reasons, but that's a differnt blog now isn't it.
posted by countygirl on Nov 30, 2007 at 09:36 AM
Eek I couldn't agree more!  It may just be sex, but it's disrespectful.  My husband knows that if he ever cheated on me I'd be gone. So in my mind if he ever did cheat on me he had made his decision right there that he was done with our marriage.
posted by anonnymous on Nov 30, 2007 at 09:51 AM

You girls talk all tough about leaving your husbands if they cheat on you. The truth is most women stay with their husbands. County girl you don't work,how are you going to live?I guess you could take you husband to court and try and suck him dry but what does that say about you. For every Man that cheats remember that there is also a woman cheating too. Joty they are just on their high horses right now. Until a woman is in that position she can't say for sure what she will do.

posted by countygirl on Nov 30, 2007 at 10:16 AM

I can say for sure. That's right I don't work. I guess that means that if my husband is cheating on me, or beating on me or whatever else I should stay with him because I'm a weak woman that can't make it on my own, right!  Give me a break!  I'd survive. Staying with my husband because I don't work and need the support or leaving him and sucking him dry. What is the difference really? You make it out like if I was to leave him and ask for money I'd be doing something horrible, when in fact if I say with him I'd probably be spending more money than I'd get from child support. If it was to come to that( I don't think it ever would, but for arguments sake) why shouldn't I have some of his money? He made promises to me. I had children with him and supported him while he went to school and got his dream job. Helped and supported him so he could move up the ranks. I gave up a lot for him so IMO I'd be entitled to some of his money. Do not tell me what most women do because I am NOT most women, and my husband will tell you so!

 

posted by Smokey on Nov 30, 2007 at 10:41 AM

posted by countygirl  "If Hilary was a strong woman, IMO she would have dumped the unfaithful bastard she calls husband and tried to go at this all by herself" I completely agree with this statement. Not only was staying with him a political move so was marrying him in the first place.

 anonnymous, more than a few woman have changed the locks and moved on because of a cheating man. I'm not sure where you get your facts (or perhaps it is more opinion than fact) that most women stay with thier husbands but I think that is completely flawed. Trust is a large part of a marriage and once that trust has been broken more often than not it is irreplacable.

 

posted by Joty on Nov 30, 2007 at 11:11 AM

Gee Countrygirl, I don't know how old you are, but Kennedy, the leader of our country, was one of the biggest womanizers in our history, but it wasn't public knowledge at that time. That didn't stop him from being a good president. But as I've said before, the media used to protect those in the public eye (politically).

I can separate love from sex. Maybe it's because I came of age in the sixties. I don't feel my husband disrepected me, nor did he stop loving me. I love and value our marriage enough that I stuck it out. Sure, it'd be easy to run, that's what most women seem to do and yes, I consider them weak. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. I guess you ladies don't feel that way about your husbands?

I'm not going into details about how and why his infidelity occurred, but it wasn't worth throwing away everything we had worked for. Nor was it worth not trusting him. Maybe it would be different if he'd been a chronic cheater. He wasn't. And we have almost 28 years together.

Thank you Anonnymous, I agree. No one has walked a mile in my shoes.

Hillary will be a good change for this country. Her husband's past nor hers should have anything to do with her as a candidate.

posted by countygirl on Nov 30, 2007 at 11:26 AM
I feel the same way about Kennedy, although he was a much better president IMO.  I don't think it was public knowledge because women back then didn't sleep with people then run and tell all, but I think people knew. My dislike for Clinton isn't just his inability to stay faithful, and the fact that he lied to the whole country. Don't get me wrong I've had problems with all our presidents since Regan.This blog just happens to be about the Clinton machine.  All our presidents have done some positive and negative, but all anyone remembers is the negative. Our brain is unfortunately is programed like that.
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