Does anyone remember what it was like under Bill Clinton's presidency?

[kentuck]

Everybody had a job. Gasoline cost about 1.25 a gallon. People were saving money. Our country was saving money. We were running surpluses. Everybody was having sex - even the president. Times were good.

Even then, naysayers like Rush Limbaugh and his right-wing brethren were telling us how "bad" things were. How "immoral" we were for following Bill Clinton. And what a "liar" was that Al Gore! Oh, if only times were so "bad" once again...

[Brundle_Fly]

1. sad.

:cry:

[DanCa]

2. peace on earth good will too men

And the lifers were just a fringe element in christianity.

[Queen Isabella]

3. Yes!

I miss Jimmy Carter.

[Aristus]

Welcome Queen Isabella!

:hi:

I miss him, too. And Bill & Hill. Life seemed like a golden age back then.

[bliss_eternal]

4. Things were 'so bad' good old Rush turned to pill popping!

:eyes:

Yes, I remember the times quite well. It broke my heart the way they took an incident that had NOTHING to do with the way the country was being ran, and turned it into a national catastrophe.

All these homeschooling, stay at home moms, owe a huge debt to Clinton. It was through his administration that people had enough money to allow many families to drop down to one income--or to provide seed money for many to open home based businesses. Yes, the same facet of the population that decided NOT to vote in 2000, because it didn't affect them.

Again, :eyes:

[VPStoltz]

5. Clinton would have already been in NOLA

with his sleeves rolled up helping those poor people. King Kreep just flew over in his private jet called AF1. What a prick.

[johnaries]

6. To be honest, it all seems like a dream.

Was it real? It seems so long ago....

[LuCifer]

9. Like the opening of F-9/11...

...was it just a dream?

Well this much is certain, we are now in a NIGHTMARE.

Just be glad we don't have anything left (ie. freedom, money, etc) that the terra-ists can hate us for. Hey, maybe that's why we've been so lucky after 9/11!

Lu

[FreedomAngel82]

23. I was just thinking about that

The opening scene with F911. Everything seems like a horrible dream but it's definitley real.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. There was one "investigation" after another by the rw

for the whole 8 years. Endless relentless. I am amazed that anything got done at all.

[bliss_eternal]

13. All the more testament to how awesome he was--

that he accomplished so much under such duress.

Isn't it amazing, that some would rather have some asshole that only cares about a small segment of the population (which doesn't even include many of the people that voted for him)? That they don't care if the guy in charge represents them or their interests, puts the nation in debt, kills their children, threatens their privacy and safety and NO ONE seems to give a shit about that?

But getting a bj in the oval office-- how HORRIBLE!

:sarcasm:

[artemisia1]

8. "The Belle Epoque" nt

[Mr_Spock]

10. Bill is my hero

I so wish we could have intelligent confident charismatic leader like him again :loveya:

[Queen Isabella]

11. But

I don't miss Carter's 25 percent interest rates.

[Pallas180]

15. Really? You like Bush's 37% interest rates on credit cards better?

that used to be called usury. Now its sanctioned by Bush and the House thugs.

At least Jimmy Carter was neither a crook, or a moron.

In fact, he was and is all that bush attempts to pretend to be.

Carter- a great humanitarian and truly man of faith without preaching it all the time.

[Mr_Spock]

16. WHAT?????????????? CARTER??? WTF is talking about Carter???

Are you smoking crack?

[kentuck]

17. I don't remember 25% interest rates ?

I do recall a surge in inflation due to the gasoline crunch. However, Carter set the stage for Reagan to have a fairly easy time with energy prices. Also, Carter's economic growth rate was better than Reagan's. Over a short period of time, inflation and interst rates were high under Carter, because Paul Volcker thought that was the best way t squeeze out the inflation, was to raise interest rates. That would slow down people who were spending like crazy. It was more the doing of the Fed than of Jimmy Carter.

[Pallas180]

20. Let's not forget Pappy's dirty trick with Reagan to beat Carter out of 2nd

term. Paying off the Iranians not to release the American hostages/prisoners until the day after election day.

Rethuglicans have been the lowest dirtiest scum for a long long time.

[bobbieinok]

12. and with every natural disaster, home + abroad, Bill offered help

at times I wondered where we'd get the money

I'll never forget the chill I felt shortly after W was installed....there was major flooding in an IA town on the Mississippi.....and the W administration basically said 'we don't give money to areas that build in vulnerable locations'

I read, and was told by my son in IA, that that town had repeatedly failed to upgrade levees, etc.....so they were at fault.....BUT, never before that I could remember, had the feds said 'tough'

I don't remember if they did get some money

BUT boy did the federal government's reaction seem COLD....and for the first time in my life I felt that the US federal government IN NO WAY wanted to help people

....

as I type, I realize that in the case of NO, apparently the feds blocked improvement of anti-flooding measures

[tyedyeto]

14. Can I say 'Good Old Days' and get away with it?

How I yearn for those days in which we were fortunate to have a roof over our heads and some economic security, even for those who have had to deal with the kind of unfortunate disasters such as Katrina.


ooops....typo

[Kerrytravelers]

18. Peace. Prosperity. Equality.

Yep. :eyes: Them sure were evil things. :eyes: :eyes: Glad we have a "christian" now. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

:sarcasm:

[Liberal In Texas]

19. I still recomend the "Hunting of the President" on DVD.

They chased him. The pukes actually kept this country from running as well as it should, because he was a poor kid from Arkansas and didn't fit in their program.

Anyway, watch the DVD and then watch the wonderful and graceful way Bill handled the Q&A session on the "special features" part.

It makes me so sick that he (or Gore or Kerry) are not our present presidents.

[FreedomAngel82]

24. I recommend that as well

I got that dvd for Christmas from my dad last year and watched it and was so incredibly pissed through the whole thing. Pissed and disgusted.

[Drum]

21. Here's a taste of those days: Clinton compassion/leadership

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wjcoklahomabombingspeech.htm

[FreedomAngel82]

22. I miss those years

*sigh* How things would be so different if he could be president now or Al Gore or John Kerry. I was growing up during Clinton's years and I always thank God for me growing up when I did. I had excellent public education and I thank my teachers, the school administrators and of course Clinton and I actually felt safer and I knew I could trust Clinton even when I was younger. I wish I was old enough to vote in 2000 because I would have Gore and I wasn't politically active then but I knew Gore was a brilliant person and I just really liked him.

[Syncronaut Seven]

25. Vaguely, Weren't we a prosperous strong respected and admired nation?

It's been so long.

[VADem11]

26. Good times

The country was well respected, crime was down, the economy was booming. God I wish Clinton or Gore were president right now.