Interesting headlines in the U.S.

[mmichaelson]

Don't be too hard on Shap, he's going to be feeling Blue tomorrow......

No, not me. But apparently lots of people were.

Not many red states left.... <sniff>


V/R
Shapley

You've still got me Shap.

[Serenity]

Don't be too hard on Shap, he's going to be feeling Blue tomorrow......

No, not me. But apparently lots of people were.

Not many red states left.... <sniff>


V/R
Shapley

Question: In the USA, Democrats are Blue, and Republicans are Red?

Republicans are Red,
Democrats are Blue.................I'll let you finish the poem.

[Nicole Marie]

Yippeee!!!! I love being Blue!

[barfle]

I seem to recall a saying from the sixties: "Better dead than red."

Not sure I agree, but it seemed to come from the right side of the aisle.

[Catmando]

Question: In the USA, Democrats are Blue, and Republicans are Red?

Republicans are Red,
Democrats are Blue.................I'll let you finish the poem.

Hmm, that's the opposite of here in Canada, where the Liberals are Red, and the Conservatives are Blue.

[Marye]

Paraphrasing front page of Canada's National Newspaper:

Democrats take the House... maybe now they can tell us what they stand for

[Serenity]

I thought they were about going to hell.

[Shapley]

Democrats take the House... maybe now they can tell us what they stand for

That's what I'm waiting to hear, also.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Question: In the USA, Democrats are Blue, and Republicans are Red?

I'm never sure. I always feel like the Republicans should be Blue, on account of how that was how the history books I grew up with represented the Union states from the US Civil War (or, as my paternal grandmother always insisted, The War Between The States). So the news channels often disagree with my preconceptions, and I get baffled and befuddled, and don't remember who I am. Very sad.

Maybe somebody knows a mnemonic I can memorize? Like the one for I and E when you're spelling things?

[jamiebk]

I seem to recall a saying from the sixties: "Better dead than red."

Not sure I agree, but it seemed to come from the right side of the aisle.

Hummmm...I hope you do not think that this refers to Republicans and Democrats. The origin of this came from anti-war protestors who felt it was better to be communist than dead from fighting about it.

[Shapley]

Jamie,

I wasn't sure, but I, too, thought that 'better red than dead' preceeded 'better dead than red'. It could just be the order I heard them in, though. This part of the country was more of the 'I'd rather fight than switch' crowd, not the 'if you can't lick 'em, join 'em' group.

V/R
Shapley

[jamiebk]

Jamie,

I wasn't sure, but I, too, thought that 'better red than dead' preceeded 'better dead than red'. It could just be the order I heard them in, though. This part of the country was more of the 'I'd rather fight than switch' crowd, not the 'if you can't lick 'em, join 'em' group.

V/R
Shapley

You're right Shap...I have heard it both ways..."Dead, than red" may have been the original, but I am not sure. I remember the anti war guys saying it the other way. Guess it depends on your orientation.

DOES ANYONE ON THE BB KNOW THE ORIGIN? I'd be interested to know.

[jamiebk]

Not a terribly reliable source, but it is a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_Red

[BigJon]

People who talk about red and blue with regards to bulk political beliefs are most likely intellectually immature. Sorry, it just shows a lack of critical thinking.

[Marye]

Don't think you are really sorry, there bigjon

No more Rummy? Ah....

[Shapley]

I was, of course, referring to it with regards to the colouration that is used by the news channels to show political winners and losers. They typically show Republicans in red and that other party in blue.

Serenity said I would be 'feeling blue' this morning and I merely disagreed, but pointed out that apparently a large number of people did feel like voting that way.

I'm sorry if that sounds intellectually immature.... okay, well I'm not sorry. I thought it was a clever joke.

Vote/Republican
Shapley

[shostakovich]

Question: In the USA, Democrats are Blue, and Republicans are Red?

I'm never sure. I always feel like the Republicans should be Blue, on account of how that was how the history books I grew up with represented the Union states from the US Civil War (or, as my paternal grandmother always insisted, The War Between The States). So the news channels often disagree with my preconceptions, and I get baffled and befuddled, and don't remember who I am. Very sad.

Maybe somebody knows a mnemonic I can memorize? Like the one for I and E when you're spelling things?

Re(d)publican.

And as for the red, dead thing,it's a variant on Patrick Henry's famous words, "Give me liberals or give me death".
Revisionist Shos

[Serenity]

People who talk about red and blue with regards to bulk political beliefs are most likely intellectually immature. Sorry, it just shows a lack of critical thinking.

That's just about everyone in the media. I think somebody needs a hug

[barfle]

If memory serves, I first heard it during the cold war. I lived in very conservative Orange County, CA at the time, and it was "Better dead than red." I heard it turned around by Vietnam war protesters later.

[BigJon]

People who talk about red and blue with regards to bulk political beliefs are most likely intellectually immature. Sorry, it just shows a lack of critical thinking.

That's just about everyone in the media. I think somebody needs a hug

I think you are right. The news droids insist on calling Sept. 11, 2001 as 9/11. Ignorance