kiwiman127
Comfortably Moderate
I was around.
I was sitting in class in High School, English Class, when the Principal came in and announced that President Kennedy had been shot and was probably going to die.
Every girl in the Class, including the Teacher, started to cry. And some of the boys.
You don't forget something like that.
That was when I started paying attention to politics.
Shortly after that I joined The Army (my folks didn't have the money for College and I joined to get the GI Bill) and they sent me to a place I'd never heard of before -- Viet Nam.
That kinda got my attention, too.
The riots in Detroit, the 82nd Airborne Division in the streets, Kent State, Woodstock, being stationed outside Boston (went on alert and put in isolation for the Roxbury Riots), walking the Streets of San Fran (Haight Ashbury), the music, the counter culture, the hippies, the drugs, MLK, the Black Panthers, Patty Hearst, Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the SDS, School Busing....
In those days, you had to be brain dead to not be aware of politics.
And I'm telling you people right fucking now....
the Stuttering Clusterfuck is THE worst president in History.
It's not even close
You're a righty so you're ignoring some huge fucking mistakes in judgment from "W". Going to two wars and lowering taxes was absolutely one of the stupidest things I have ever seen a president do. He also left trillions in unfunded mandates that will be in future presidents budgets for decades to come. That's why I have "W" tied with "O" and Carter.
It's THAT close!
So you'd prefer that Saddam were still in power and that the Taliban still have a base of operations in Asscrackistan?
Lowering taxes spurred the economy to one of the more remarkable peace-time expansions in history.
The Financial Crisis was more a function of dishonest bankers who felt they could get away with anything under the guise of the CRA and Fannie and Freddie Execs rigging the game and stupid debt instruments and THE worst Fed Chairman EVER keeping interest rates too low for too long.
IOW, it had nothing to do with Bush.
But as a juvenile libturd, you'll use your fallacious Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc logic until somebody shoves it up your nose.
You're not worth my time
Yeah, I figured you'd reject anyone who thinks out of the ideological box!
Saddam was a thug and killed innocent Iraqis and Kurds.
He also held Iran in check. He also prevented any civil war between the Sunni and Shiites.
Now we have a strong presence of Iranians in Iraq and their influence on the Iraqi government and of course there's that bloody civil war costing 10's of thousands of lives.
Also, there's the cost. Not only the100's of billions of dollars for the war effort but also the cost of American troops lives and the cost of taking care of all the taking care of those troops rehabilitation from the wounds, physically and mentally. How many American lives were ruined,,forever? How many trillions of dollars is that going to cost. And Saddam had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11! It was "W"'s folly.
Ideological partisans, can't live with them,,,pass the beer nuts.