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Understatement Of The Day

December 28, 2007 – 12:41 pm

“Quite simply, the two-party system doesn’t reflect the interests of the majority of young people.”

- Adam Fletcher, executive director of CommonAction, an Olympia, Wash., group that focuses on young voters

  1. 4 Responses to “Understatement Of The Day”

  2. Or the majority of those of us old enough to remember our parents getting really upset over Dylan going electric, either.

    By CB on Jan 1, 2008

  3. Did they really??

    The “unwashed phenomenon” as Joan Baez referred to him in ‘Diamonds and Dust’
    was actually making the best of a great situation.

    Capitalism in disguise. Great talent, great planning, but Paul Simon was still the first choice for the Gershwin Prize.

    By DAD on Jan 1, 2008

  4. Let’s see…There’s a good chance I will see at least four more presidential elections…perhaps five. That should be sufficient time for Mr. Fletcher and his target audience. T’will be interesting to see into whose hands the means of production fall. After a lifetime of humpbusting, yesterdays Independents and Libertarians become tomorrow’s Republicans. It never fails.

    By DAD on Jan 1, 2008

  5. …oops!…the title of that Baez song is ‘Diamonds and Rust’. Sorry!

    By DAD on Jan 1, 2008

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