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Yes, the dress one was very amusing.  Now I want to see the October 4th one! 

Update:  Have now seen October 4th cartoon and it's brilliant!

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A lot of Welsh people emigrated to South America during the 19th Century, and, with a name like hers, I suspect her ancestors did just that.  Anyway, down to business; she's hot, thanks for posting! 8)

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Ridiculous situation, IMO.  Sadly, the jealous ex- situation reminds me horribly of what happened to Amanda Savell. :'(  Why are these gorgeous women ttracted to jealous, aggressive meatheads? ???
Mind you, asking forum members to write angry letters without knowing who was involved is pretty daft also. ::)

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You didn't offend me, alex – I just suggested that you weren't very diplomatic.  You make a very valid point about times changing.  I suspect that guys like AlexG and Lingster are of a generation slightly before my own who can remember those days and who still fear their resurgence.  As you say, in most countries (excepting those such as North Korea) the popularity of Marxist/extreme Socialist politics has crashed through the floor.  This means that younger voters, who seem to be supporting Obama, are not worried about the US becoming a Communist state.

Mimi – er, I don't know what to say! 😮 ;D  Your comment has certainly lightened my mood in this thread but I'm a bit speechless!  I know a lot of guys drool over her.  I can see why – her assertiveness and confidence is a change from meek and mild First Ladies, I suppose, but I just can't get past the "I can see Russia from my front window!" effect. ::)

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Well alex, you've just alienated a lot of people here, including your near-namesake AlexG. 

I do agree, however, on the central points.  Maybe a definition of socialist in the sense of a socialist state is what is needed here.  I always think of what many trade Unionists tried to make the UK in the 1970s.  Strikes were going-on almost continuously, many of them wildcat strikes (i.e. not planned by the hierarchy of the Union but just spontaneous) and often included flying pickets and violence for anyone who crossed the picket line.  Ricky Tomlinson (best-known as Jim in The Royle Family was jailed for such offences.  Even if Obama gets in (and I don't think he will), he'd have to have almost as much Communist zeal as Stalin to cause such a shift in US thinking, culture and politics.  How come no previous Democrat President has already done this?

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Oops!  :-[  Thanks for the correction.

No problem – my mind stores junk information, one such being the dates and venues of Olympic Games since WW2. ::) ;D

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My apologies jdm, even allowing for the new hairstyle, it still didn't look like Ms Popa to me initially. :-[

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So I take it you're not terribly familiar with the Daley family of Chicago.

Nope.  But I can see where this is going.  Marxists, I presume? ::)

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That Ayers donated money to Obama's campaign is the least of their associations (which are just now coming to light via the mainstream "news" media).  Ayers may not be a bomb-thrower anymore, but he still hates America with a white-hot passion.  Factor in Obama's association with Jeremiah Wright (over twenty years and BO never heard Wright preach "God damn America!" or any of his other despicable statements???), Michael Pfleger, and others, and it's obvious that Obama is entirely too comfortable in the company of folks who (to put it politely) don't have this country's best interests at heart.  (In his first(!) autoboigraphy, Dreams From My Father, Obama baldly states that, in college, still looking for an "identity", he specifically sought out as friends student radicals and Marxist professors.  And I have not heard him repudiate those associations or the political views he learned from them.)

As for me, you've got a deal.  And please believe me, I hope I am the one apologizing to you.  Because the alternative is too horrible to contemplate.

What's amusing is that most of the New Labour hierarchy of the last 11 years, including the current Prime Minister, dabbled in Socialism at University and during their early political careers.  Charles Clarke, Former Education Secretary, and MP for the constituency neighbouring mine, was a leftiest leader of the National Union of Students.  Yet, many of these same men are now reckoned to have become almost right-of-centre in middle age. My pointy being that people's views change, and that, if you disallowed any politician who once dablled in Socialism, the UK would be nigh-on leaderless.  The House of Commons would be half-empty.  Yet the UK is not a Marxist state – a Conservative revival has taken-place, with their leader, David Cameron, almost a shoo-in for PM at the next General Election.

Thanks, though, for your words on my rather cheeky suggestion about four years' time. 8)

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