Politics and religion.

**lizbud** · 01-21-2011, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by Grace

Has it really been that long ago . . . . 50 years? I remember watching on TV - a cold, snowy day in January.

January 20, 1961 - Washington, D.C. The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy.

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/jfk-inaug.htm

JFK's election was my first voting experience. It was a great time to be
young, hopeful and expect great things for America. My Irish Grandmother
was so excited to see an Irish Catholic man make it to the White House.
She knew what it was like when the Irish were not so welcomed in this
country. We were all so proud.

**Grace** · 01-25-2011, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

JFK's election was my first voting experience. It was a great time to be
young, hopeful and expect great things for America. My Irish Grandmother
was so excited to see an Irish Catholic man make it to the White House.
She knew what it was like when the Irish were not so welcomed in this
country. We were all so proud.

I didn't turn 21 until a few months after JFK was inaugurated. I would have voted for him.

**RICHARD** · 01-25-2011, 07:25 PM

Yea!!!!!

Da Bears didn't win....but this ain't no football game.....

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01...-as-court-iss/

**RICHARD** · 01-25-2011, 08:08 PM

Lovely,

This is our Sputnik Moment.

No, We have had Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Voyager, Skylab, Vikings, the Shuttles, the IES, the two Mars Landers and a whole arse full technology that WE PIONEERED and BO is going to use a POS Russian satellite as an example?

Or, is he harking back to the days when we got our rears handed to us by someone else and we go into freakout mode and start building stuff, willy nilly?

LOL,
I just looked SM up and it funnier than what I wrote.

Sounds like he's on board with the Old Soviet Union being more bitchin' than we were.....

**RICHARD** · 01-25-2011, 10:17 PM

The guy in the purple tie over the prez' left shoulder looked like he wanted to cry.

**Grace** · 01-25-2011, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

The guy in the purple tie over the prez' left shoulder looked like he wanted to cry.

That was John Boehner, Speaker of the House.

**caseysmom** · 01-25-2011, 10:32 PM

I loved loved loved the line about the winner of the science fair should be cheered as much as the winner of the super bowl.

**RICHARD** · 01-25-2011, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Grace

That was John Boehner, Speaker of the House.

Grace,
I know who he is, I was making a joke.

I thought he may have it in him to try and steal BO's thunder by putting on a sobfest.

**blue** · 01-26-2011, 02:22 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

The guy in the purple tie over the prez' left shoulder looked like he wanted to cry.

Originally Posted by Grace

That was John Boehner, Speaker of the House.

He was fighting the "Stand and Clap" device the previous Speaker of the House installed. She couldnt feel normal prompts because of her unusual amount of Botox treatments, so she had a broken broom handle with splinters installed to prompt her like a Jack in the Box. Unfortunately Boehner could. The libs where to cheap to remove Pelosi's splintery piece of wood prompter.