Don't you long for the ninties?

[Swede]

Cold war over,big dawg getting the Israelis and Arabs into a real dialogue. Wall street booming. Republicans digging up dirt,where there was none. I know this is rose colored,but didn't the world have a President? Didn't you love the things that he stood for?

[jobycom]

1. Did Nine Inch Nails make ties?

:shrug:

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. Yes, I yearn for the days when

we had a real President, rather than a Scotus elected resident. No Big Dog wasnt perfect (Waco), but dammit, he was a President in matters where it counted.

[Fuzz]

3. Thought you may have been referring to temperature

[valerief]

5. Good one in this heat! n/t

[NNadir]

4. They were wonderful times.

I had two children. I was very optimistic about the future.

Now I feel that I have little hope of protecting my children. These are the worst times in this country since the American Civil War, but in that war, we had fine leadership. Now we have a cabal of venal, sick, sociopaths.

It is horrible. The terrorists succeeded in destroying this country back in September 2001. And we helped them do it.

[valerief]

6. I long for the Gay Nineties. Multiple petticoats and parasols.

Once-a-week baths. In gay bathhouses, I presume.

[oberliner]

7. Bill Clinton

I so vividly remember the day that Bill Clinton was elected.

After 12 years of Republican presidents, it felt like a cloud had lifted.

Hopefully this current Republican nightmare will only last 8 years rather than 12.

[Nevernose]

9. You want depressing? Go to the BC Library in Little Rock.

Everything he worked for -- and Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, even Ford and Nixon -- gone down the drain in the name of an unjustifiable, unsupportable, irrational extremism.

[me b zola]

8. I long for the 60's

I was just a child, I was born in '63. But the hope, optimism that people could make a difference, and mass movements was a very special time in our history.

Since then corporate amerika has taken over the media, so even when 500,000 of us march on Washington, no one sees it because that is an image that corporate amerika doesn't want people to see. Instead they showed a brief clip from a camera angle that makes it look as though we may have been just a hundred people, and give equal time to less than a hundred people who were there to oppose us--making it look as though there was an equal sentiment on both sides of the issue.

The gop hadn't infiltrated churches and turned them into political groups back in the 60's. Many people of faith naturally opposed the death penalty and war, and supported civil rights. Some people may have been bigots and still went to church, but at least they did not hide behind their church as they worked to oppress others. Now churches have been turned into instruments of hatred & oppression, and Jesus has been tossed into the gutter as I am forced to hear politicians "preach" to me.

[Ringo84]

10. Yes

A great time for America. No theocracy. No Dictator-as-President. No torture by a country who has always claimed to be so moral. Less powerful RWers.

I don't really know, because I wasn't into politics pre-2001 (9/11 was around the time that I started getting into politics), but it seems like before this decade, Republicans and Democrats could argue and grouse all day. But when the day was over, they could have a beer together and enjoy the other's company without having to be enemies. These days, considering the attitudes from people on both the left and the right, it doesn't seem that way. It's like we're going to eventually have to divide the country up into 'Red' and 'Blue'. I don't like that.
Ringo

[man4allcats]

11. I guess this is dating myself, but that's okay.

I long for the early '60s. Now there was a President that even the dominant President of the '90s would and did admire. And there was a philosophy that died like the cowboys of the late 19th century died - roughly ten good years and it (and they) were gone. Too bad they didn't listen to the American Indians. Those folks really had it together, but unfortunately technology trampled them both. Advanced weaponry defeated the Indians (but not their drugs), and advanced technology killed the cowboys who either lacked drugs or simply and unfortunately didn't appreciate their benefits.

No more to say about it except go to SummerTime and click "Ball and Chain," or anything else you want on that page. Just make sure you have a good buzz going and your speakers are turned on.