Did anything good happen for you during the Bush Administration?

[MichellesBFF]

I'll start. This is superficial, let's have fun!

I became a runner. (Woot!) I got 5 out of my 6 cats. My youngest nephew and my only niece were born.
I got a kayak. And a Mini Cooper. Which I will still have into the Obama administration, so there

Of course I got married during the Clinton administration, so that one wins...

[sakabatou]

1. Got my first real job, found my SO

[Yavin4]

2. Obama, The First African American, Was Elected President

by an overwhelming margin.

[MichellesBFF]

8. Yeah!

I like your answer.

Farewell Bushie...

[Libertyfirst]

15. Best thing that happened in eight very long years. n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. I did get a promotion

And I have received a raise every year. But my living wage has still gone down.

Making more keeping less.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. I got laid.

But it wasn't Bush's fault.

[Oceansaway]

5. ...

got single...got retired...got outta debt...


disclaimer:

I did FAR better during the 90's...and had alot more fun

[panader0]

6. I got laid several times---------does that count?

[MichellesBFF]

10. You too!

Aside from the kayak, and the car, and the cats, and the new kidlets I got laid off twice, and I'm still looking for a job.

But other than that, I really enjoy the running...

[EFerrari]

7. I got off my rear and starting writing again and protesting again, paying attention again.

I bet a lot of people got more active

[LostinVA]

9. I got married

[MichellesBFF]

13. Mazel tov!

Awww! I love a good wedding.

[LostinVA]

37. I met her on here, too

[proud patriot]

11. I quit smoking tobacco

still indulge in pot occasionally

[spanone]

12. quit drinking.....nothing to do with bu$h*

[ecstatic]

14. yeah

Graduated college, got my drivers license, bought a car, house... became an Aunt, witnessed Obama run the most inspirational campaign of my lifetime... I think those are the major incidents. I still don't have the fitness routine in place, but I'm sure to under Obama.

[stillcool]

16. I got the best education ever..

right here on DU. I learned lots of things that I wish I hadn't. Ignorance was bliss. Can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[sandnsea]

17. I became a grandma, twice

I got married during the Reagan administration and I'll just leave that right there. lol.

[Sandrine for you]

18. Du happen to me....

[Graybeard]

26. Ditto. Found DU.

And it was like an oasis in the desert. :P

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

19. I left San Diego where I had been for 64 years and went to the

Southern Oregon Coast and bought the first home we have ever owned, complete with spring water, year round creek, huge garden, green house, big trees and a five min. walk to an uncrowded surfing beach, one mile south of a town of 1200 people, and most of them voted for Obama.

[zeemike]

20. Well I did not die...and that has to be a good thing.

But probably hundreds of thousands did because of bush

[KoKo]

21. No! That Damned BLOOD SUCKER STOLE EVERYTHING not Nailed DOWN!

On Edit...I moved to a Fundie State that just turned Blue...My life has been miserable (without DU and Liberal sites on Internet since 200 Selection) and I wouldn't have survived.

My life was way better before that POS with his Poppy's Money and Connections stole the 2000 Election and while I might have "grown in some ways" I would rather not have had to do what I had to do to survive with those POS's IN POWER!

[madrchsod]

22. not really

one crappy job for three years,let go after 4 years because of a heart attack in 2002, temp jobs, and unemployment.

thank god i turned 62 so i can get enough money to pay the mortgage and a utility bill each month. looks like it`s the "underground economy" for the rest of my life

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. I found DU!

And that simple fact has changed my life...

[havocmom]

24. The DEMS fielded a damned fine slate for primaries and brough back pride and hope

The voters wised up and got heard in terms not GOP operative could steal an election from.

:thumbsup:

[Mari333]

25. worst 8 yrs of my whole life. nt

[Solly Mack]

27. I moved to Germany

[LeftyMom]

28. I had a baby. Bush had nothing to do with it. I was already quite pregnant at the election.

Bringing a child into the world on his watch wasn't precisely reassuring.

[blonndee]

29. Yes. I earned an MA.

despite Bush's later cuts on Pell Grants for unlucky people who graduated just after me (I actually benefitted pretty well initially, before the cuts). I made some probably life-long, similarly-thinking friends. And I became a Democrat, from being nothing and uninterested politcally, as a direct result of Little Lord Pissypants and his sorry excuse for an administration.

So I guess I do have something for which I can thank this loser. He's screwed up everything else in my life since, but he was responsible for my becoming politically aware and concerned, and (most importantly) later becoming a Democrat and a liberal.

Thanks, Georgie!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

30. Nope. My life went from being almost picture perfect to being what it is now

A depressing, unfulfilling, struggling life with no relief or hope in sight where it is a challenge to get through the day sometimes

The * years have been absolute hell for me

[alfredo]

31. I got SSI Disability on my first try. Got Postal Service Disability.

Got VA disability on first try.


Any Signal Corp ASA or other communication veterans, if you have any hearing difficulty from your service, go to the VA. I have hearing loss and Tinnitus. I wasn't looking for monetary reward, just wanted to save money if I needed hearing aids. They are giving me $123 a month.

[RB TexLa]

32. Got married.

[valerief]

33. I wrote my first novel. Now I'm on number five. nt

[Patsy Stone]

34. I bought a Mini too!

And a condo. I went back to a job I love, and met some lovely people on DU I'm now quite close to IRL. I'm sure there are more things, because it seems like he's been president for freakin' EVER, but that's a good place to leave it.

[Lisa0825]

35. Yes. I changed career paths and have gone from ....

... facing career stagnation to starting over at something new and flourishing. But that has nothing to do with Bush. But I have witnessed so much suffering in the eyes of others that if I could have traded my growth to help someone else, I would.

[TroglodyteScholar]

36. Yes, actually...

I married a woman I loved deeply, got my degree, got a job, got a better job, got divorced from the same woman who I now realize was very crazy, and got to see my brother marry a woman who is wonderful and not-crazy....

Plenty of bad things happened too, but I'd rather not dwell on those... :D