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In reply to the discussion: I'm not a churchy person but I went up to Plains, GA, to see Jimmy Carter preach at his church [View all]WCGreen
(45,558 posts)I was the campus coordinator at our community college which amounted to sitting at a table during the lunch crowd to hand out campaign lit...
I was at the disaster of a debate in 1980 here in Cleveland. The power went out for 45 minutes. Carter was very uncomfortable while the Gipper was use to standing around with nothing to do for long stretches of time. He was an actor, afterall...
What was amazing to me was that Carter, a man who actually was in uniform, was painted as weak on defense while RR was elevated to war hero status while he played war in Hollywood, never wore a uniform.
When RR beat JC in November, I knew we were headed toward disaster. exploding deficits, huge cuts in the budget for helping people who were down on their luck...
We haven't recovered from that disaster of an election.
We are still paying for the crap Ronnie and his cohorts started in on as soon as they took the oath.