Have We Ever Enjoyed A Good Run?

Again what Carter was proposing was just not viable even if your planted the entire US in corn.

When we had a chance to buy Canada he should have jumped at it.

 

To go back to the original point of the thread:
I wasn't around, but weren't the 1950s under Eisenhower pretty good?

 

I was around--just.

I do remember lots of pictures of Ike golfing --not much else.

I remember growing up in Leave it to Beaver land and I also remember "duck and cover" from public school. Two sides of the same coin.

That's about it.

 

how can you say it makes no difference?

You think you're in Iraq if its not Bush in office?

Not a fucking chance.

There would probably have been 9-11 and Afghanistan, but not Iraq.

The world's history often swings on the ambitions and personality of a single person - Caesar, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, HITLER!!

Yeah, it makes a difference

 

Yup. We had two years of GOP-controlled House and Senate running the country and forcing Clinton into line, and things were humming along.

 

And down where I was born in the '50s, we had this little thing we called "segregation." Kind of a buzz killer for some.

 

I didn't say that individual presidents don't impact the country. My point is that despite what individual presidents do, somehow the country moves on.

 

Sunday, Monday HAPPY DAYS, These Days are OURRRRRRS!

Though I'm kind of partial to the Era of Good Feelings. Not to be confused with the mid-90s when a presidential blow job was the worst of our problems. Ah, the good old days.

 

The 1980s were a timely combination of a lot of things. A fortunous fault, we might term it in the now.

The sainted halfwit in office had nothing to do with any of it.

 

Brothers and sisters, y'all best git right with Jeebus...cause there's a sign of the end times a-comin'...I agree wholeheartedly with Ragu. On the above post, anyway. Spot on.