I weep for America

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11. President's were respected in the late 1960s?

I coulda sworn we called one of them Tricky Dicky. And one guy who ran for President in 1964, we said about him "In your guts, you know he's nuts".

I remember at a very early age seeing a common bumpersticker after every election. It said "Don't blame me, I voted for McGovern" or "Don't blame me, I voted for Ford".

The President's citizenship is called into question? So what? How is that any worse than what has gone on for decades?

Four years ago, the President's military service and species were called into question. The chimperator was AWOL. In 1993, that President was called a serial murderer. Before that the President said he was hoping for a "kinder, gentler nation" and many in the press jeered at him for that, and mocked the idea of "a thousand points of light". It was said that he could not get past the "wimp factor" and that his Vice President was a complete moron.

You complain about the daily discourse in "this country" as if it is all coming from Republicans. Perhaps "we" have already "become more base and belligerant". Our glorious selves included.