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DaddySatyr -> RE: Conservatives just dont 'get it' on Border Security (7/5/2014 11:17:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL DesideriScuri (Snip)
It's really tough to gauge who was a better President by polling current voters. When you have a span of 69 years worth of Presidents, the younger the respondent, the less likely he/she is to actually have a clue about the older Presidents. I can honestly say that any President prior to Reagan isn't going to bring any direct experience from me, and Reagan's Presidency can only bring up non-political experiences.
I'd like to speak to this, a little ...
My memory goes back (very vaguely) to President Johnson (Ask me, some time, to relate the story of the day they were burying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
My memories definitely kick in for Nixon. I remember Nixon, beating McGovern in '72 very well.
I remember being not quite ten years old and splitting my summer vacation between stickball in the morning and being home in time to watch the Watergate hearings on channel 13 (PBS in NYC), in the afternoon (My friends were all convinced I was a geek [and other words we can't use, here]).
I remember reading "All The President's Men" when it came out (at least a dozen times).
I remember watching the Nixon interviews with Frost and forming the opinion that Nixon wasn't aware of the break-in, beforehand because his people wanted him to have "plausible deniability". However, I firmly believed that he was well involved in the cover-up. I have frequently said: "All he needed to do was say: 'These people ... my people thought this is what I wanted. I've fired them.' and he could have saved his presidency. After all, he ended the Vietnam War (Of course, he did it the way Hanoi John Kerry wanted him to, giving the commie pinkos an un-deserved victory).
I remember how President Carter made a lot of us feel embarrassed about being American and how Ronald Reagan re-infused us with "can-do" spirit.
(I want to say, here: I had an opportunity to meet President Carter, when he was out of office and had just started "Habitat For Humanity" and I thought he was a terrific guy but a lousy president)
I remember how I couldn't help thinking that Bush I couldn't help but be a better choice than Dukakis (God forgive me).
I remember thinking that a pot-smoking draft-dodger couldn't possibly be elected (and I was wrong) and how his wife wanted to kill people in this country with her facocta health care reform (I'm still not sure that her, writing law, wasn't unconstitutional).
I remember a president, accused of something that didn't matter (A B.J. in the Whitehouse), was allowed to walk away from lying to congress (something for which he eviscerated President Nixon).
I remember a new president getting elected and (almost) immediately having the "cooked book" economy burst out from under him. he didn't "bitch and blame" he rolled up his sleeves and got to work.
I remember him being a beacon of hope, when thousands of our citizens were killed by extremist bastards who have no conscience decided that thousands of "blue-eyed devils" needed to die.
I remember him, being one of the worst domestic-policy presidents in history; not concerning himself with re-building the shitty economy he inherited.
I remember the attack on the constitution that he dubbed "The PATRIOT Act".
I remember a lawyer with no leadership experience being anointed by democrats as the "new hope".
I remember studying his (very short) senatorial career and reading his book and realizing that he was a socialist.
I remember stating that he was a socialist and being labeled a racist for it.
I remember my country, which had been involved in racially-charged riots just 40 years before, electing a black man. I remember being proud of that (Although, I wished it had been Gen. Powell, instead of the current pretender-in-chief).
I remember being promised "hope and change" and getting prison-fucked, instead.
I find myself thinking nostalgically about the Clinton presidency but really wishing Ronald Reagan's son had been more politically active.
Screen captures still RULE! Ya feel me?
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