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Thread #146438 Message #3391056
Posted By: Amos
16-Aug-12 - 04:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Going to put y'all back in chains
Subject: RE: BS: Going to put y'all back in chains
Twist and shout, baby. I quite agree that Biden should have chosen some other figure of speech. But all it was was a figure of speech; it was used extensively during the labor movement ascension between the 10's and the 40's, to describe the condition of ecomic repression of the blue-collar class, regardless of color. But I notice with interest that none of your twist and shout crew chose to recall that context as the applicable one, even though it seems pretty clear to me.
Why doncha ask Joe Biden what he was implying instead of all this wild-ass guessing and asserting?