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A Bare-Knuckle Fight

Politics has always been rough and tumble a bare-knuckle fight in a concrete jungle Those who preach togetherness and unity flail their arms at windmills uselessly

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 12/17/2021 7:57:00 AM

We have not been this divided since the Civil War - although actually I was not living in those days.

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 12/13/2021 4:36:00 PM

LOL…I believe I read in one bio that Abraham Lincoln threw an opponent.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/13/2021 7:50:00 PM

I think that politicians used to really slug each other. Not like today's snowflakes. lol.

Rico Leffanta

Date: 12/13/2021 11:03:00 AM

Rising from "bare-knuckle" to "knuckle-head" is an American pastime . . . . .

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/13/2021 7:50:00 PM

Good wisecrack there, Rico. Bullseye.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 12/13/2021 9:38:00 AM

Ah, but we keep punching, gw. We think there is such a thing as hope!

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/13/2021 7:49:00 PM

It's what they put in the punch these days...

John Lawless

Date: 12/13/2021 8:10:00 AM

DAMN.....the original "wind" turbines and we just let them rant and rave without hooking them up to the power grid....

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/13/2021 7:49:00 PM

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Never thought of things quite that way, John. Windy Turban

P.S. Awtry

Date: 12/13/2021 7:27:00 AM

So true! We send the politicians to Washington to fight for us! I think we suffer when they play nice with one another. But I naively wish like Rodney King why we the people can’t get along :D -ps

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/13/2021 7:48:00 PM

Drink a beer, make a friend, sing a song; why can't we all -- just get along? ~ Luke Bryant