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Speaking as the granddaughter of one of those baaaad 1930s people...

Mary Anne — 9/27/2003 11:23:14 PM (archived)

You overreach yourself again.

My grandfather was a devotee of Father Coughlin. I don't think you could say he supported Hitler, though he certainly opposed getting into another European war. And why? Because he was a machine gunner in the AEF, during the First World War.

After that, he pulled his family through the Great Depression. Isolationist? Hell, yes!

None of his sons agreed with him. And no, he never did forgive FDR for my oldest uncle's death. But he never liked FDR to begin with.

He was a good Republican.

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TIME: Where Are Saddam's WMD? - Don - 9/27/2003 1:57:13 PM
- 66,300 google hits on Kennedy assassination - FrankC - 9/28/2003 5:24:28 AM
  - You can't wish this away Frank - Lindy - 9/28/2003 7:21:38 AM
    - Search for the smoking gun - FrankC - 9/28/2003 6:38:56 PM
    - Right...and you, Don, and others here wish THIS away: - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/28/2003 1:48:56 PM
      - Don't have to - Fox - 9/28/2003 2:30:03 PM
        
        re: Don't have to - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2003 4:58:56 AM
- Meanwhile: CIA seeks probe of White House - Don - 9/27/2003 2:02:49 PM
  - the story of the year - Greg - 9/27/2003 2:31:18 PM
    - Tacitus on this - Greg - 9/27/2003 3:17:48 PM
      - Wow! Maybe THIS time you can hang something on Bush! Twelfth time's the charm... (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2003 3:34:52 AM
        
        So it doesn't bother you they may have broken the law. I see (n/t) - Greg - 9/28/2003 7:04:11 AM
        
        Might not hurt to wait until some actual evidence shows up... - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2003 4:34:51 AM
        
        re: Might not hurt to wait until some actual evidence shows up... - Greg - 9/29/2003 7:23:05 AM
        
        "So if they had committed felonies that would bother you" - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2003 6:59:57 PM
        
        I don't think you do see - FrankC - 9/29/2003 12:05:20 AM
        
        gotcha politics - Greg - 9/29/2003 2:12:37 AM
  - Parents of GI casualties in Iraq protest Bush - Don - 9/27/2003 2:10:19 PM
    - Moveon.org - Tom Brosz - 9/28/2003 3:42:20 AM
    - The thing I have learned from all this... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/27/2003 6:39:06 PM
      - Speaking as the granddaughter of one of those baaaad 1930s people... - Mary Anne - 9/27/2003 11:23:14 PM
        
        re: Speaking as the granddaughter of one of those baaaad 1930s people... - SDAi-Tech1 - 9/28/2003 2:06:59 PM
        
        You ought to get more sleep before you reply to something that annoys you. - Mary Anne - 9/28/2003 3:28:45 PM
        
        re: You ought to get more sleep before you reply to something that annoys you. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/28/2003 11:56:02 PM
        
        I have to get up in the morning, but... - Mary Anne - 9/29/2003 2:31:49 AM
        
        re: I have to get up in the morning, but... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/29/2003 9:12:23 PM
        
        I really don't want to poke into this particular exchange, but... - Tom - 9/29/2003 4:50:10 AM
        
        My last name disappeared! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/29/2003 4:52:10 AM
        
        Ouch! - Don - 9/28/2003 1:16:00 AM
        
        Thanks - Mary Anne - 9/28/2003 3:35:30 PM
      - History has been too gentle on many of the 1930's era people (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/27/2003 10:41:34 PM
    - "They [the Bush admin.] have failed all of us." - That's the understatement of the century and bound for the history books. (n/t) - Jason - 9/27/2003 2:47:42 PM

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