It'smore than annoying that 8 years of my life will be spent under Bush. And there is nothing

[jerryme1]

I can/could have done about it. We just happened to cross paths in history. Weird huh?

[DangerDave921]

1. Smoke another bowl Mr. Insightful! LOL

[jerryme1]

2. Probably not a bad idea.

[KansDem]

3. Depending on how old you are, you might have spent 20 years...

1980-1988--Reagan/Bush
1988-1992--Bush/Quayle
2000-2008--Bush/Cheney

I include the entire Bush Family in observing the low moments of our country's history...

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. No shit. Turned 18 in 1980. Sucks to be me, huh? n/t

[KansDem]

8. LOL!! So in every election you voted, the GOP has run either Bob Dole or a Bush!

My wife became eligible to vote in 1976. I remind her of the same thing: in every presidential election, the GOP has run either Bob Dole or a member of the Bush Family. Thats' eight elections! That's 32 years! :rofl:

So much for "new ideas" from the GOP!!!

edited for over-use of preposition...

[lumberjack_jeff]

25. Makes choosing easier, though. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

18. You and me both...

graduating right into the belly of the Reagan trickle down years, sucked didn't it?

[villager]

7. exactly -- I remember walking home from college in 1980, after Reagan "won"

the election (after their own Iran-based election-fixing), thinking how fucked I was, and my country was, as I was getting ready to launch into "grown up" life.

I'm middle aged now, and those dark clouds still haven't lifted from America. Indeed, they've only gotten darker.

[damntexdem]

13. Hey, don't leave out 8 years under Nixon/Ford,

1969-1977 (to go by actual dates of entering & leaving office)

[Javaman]

19. Been there, living that. :( nt

[jerryme1]

20. Lived them all.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. I got stuck w/both raygun and W as govs. So I've suffered these repugs

for even more years. :puke:

[SteelPenguin]

5. Hey at least he's made life interesting ;)

Not necessarily good, but definately interesting.

Plus he's provided opportunities for people to really make a difference in other people's lives. I mean just look at Katrina. If he had responded quickly and forcibly to the disaster with aid, helicopters, troops, etc, and then led a comprehensive inititative to truly rebuild New Orleans, all those people down there volunteering wouldn't have been able to help people. By not doing his job of protecting the American people, he's given lots of young people who wanted to help make a difference in people's lives a chance.

It doesn't matter that the tragedies of which these stem lay their blame at his feet! We have to look forward, not place blame! It doesn't matter that Iraq was and is a total mistake and waste of american and iraqi lives. All that matter is that there are young american's out there who have been given a sense of purpose to join the military only to get blown up by an IED!

People bemoan the fact that they live in a boring uneventfull phase of history, but we're not!

Why by his lack of leadership, or even leadership in the opposite direction, global warming is probably now officially past our ability to do anything about it. Or even really try! So you have the seas rising 20 feet in the rest of your lifetime and getting to watch every coastal city int he world try and survive. Millions more to help from starvation and displacement! People who might not have been in need of help if not for Bush!

I could go on, but you get my point. We have to look at the positives! Because of President Bush we'll have hundreds of millions of people or more who will need to be helped in the coming decades, and on top of that a radical change in the surface of the earth. Wow! I mean it's exciting!

:sarcasm:

[NJCher]

10. I'm looking forward to Great Depression II !!!

I remember hearing my parents talk about it and wishing so much I could undergo a like experience. I've never lived through an economic meltdown of that magnitude!

And wow, guys, think about it. Looks like we're going to live through the U.S. sticking it to everybody in the world. Hahahahah! The first U.S. bankruptcy and we're a part of it, all because of those wacky Republicans!



Cher

[damntexdem]

14. May we live in interesting times?

Living is one thing. But will we SURVIVE the times that the Bushistas are bringing upon us?

[Gloria]

6. After 8 years of Reagan I thought IT WAS OVER...then came Bush I and then....

BUSH II. BUSH II is even worse than REAGAN...It was pure hell then, for me... And Bush II is even worse

[JohnnyLib2]

9. deBushification!

It's essential for one and all.

[EST]

11. An unfortunate truth of history is that large groups of people

do not govern themselves intelligently, mapping possible and probable outcomes, prioritizing them, and preparing plans for the future. Some, yes, but on social issues, primarily, populations stagger from extreme to extreme, pendulum fashion, and produce solutions that have no finesse, being a series of putting out fires with no real plan in place.

The deeper we stagger into the bush delusion, the greater the swing of recovery, assuming we recover at all--pretty problematic for a million or so people in Iraq and several other countries.

[LeftishBrit]

12. Join me in the old British folk song, "The Prickly Bush"

Oh, the prickly *bush*
Does pierce my heart full sore,
And if ever I get away from that *bush*,
I'll never be caught any more!


(And I hope we never will!)

[damntexdem]

15. But remember: there's always the twins.

;-)

[peace13]

16. Yepper!

I turned fifty this summer and it was hard to take thinking that 8/10 of my forties were suffered under the *ush cartel. I have got to get a new plan soon! Peace, Kim

[Virginia Dare]

17. Actually twelve if you count Poppy...

or 20 if you count his Vice Presidency, and then there were the Nixon/Ford years......:scared:

[Wiley50]

21. The Last Time My Life Was truly Happy, Carter Was President

The Fuckers have screwed up my entire adult life

[Cabcere]

22. My entire high school & college career = under GWB's rule.

:( Sucks.

Edited to add: John Kerry was the first person I voted for, but my second vote was for Jim Webb - even before the whole "macaca" thing hit since I had to vote absentee. :) I'm (somewhat selfishly) glad at least one of those worked out, but as much as I like Webb, overall I think I'd rather put up with Asshat Allen in the Senate and have Kerry as President. :(

Also, I was born during Reagan's reign...so, yeah. :puke:

[JNelson6563]

23. I'm glad to have a different story

During these years I have gotten involved in politics like never before. I'm on the board of my local Dem party and applied my marketing background to fundraising efforts. We have made much progress (in part thanks to Team Bush) in turning our county from red to blue.

I went on to chair my Congressional district and spread my own gospel of fundraising, volunteer recruitment and party building throughout the 14 counties. The message has been well received. I've included many who were somewhat disenfranchised at the county level and you should see what they have done to date! Some are even running for office!

To think, I would've probably never have jumped in and started kicking rethug ass if I hadn't gotten so pissed off at the theft of the WH and subsequent screw-ups. I've done all I could think of to turn my anger into productive efforts for the Dem cause.

:toast:

Julie

[Perry Logan]

26. We got to watch the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot, over and over and over again.

[LeftishBrit]

27. I still resent spending 11 years under Maggie Thatcher...

not to mention 7 under her successor John Major and 10 under her illegitimate son Tony Blair.