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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is lengthening the game itself. Think Forever. Not today. [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Believe me, my grandparents & mother kicked out in Austria because they were Jewish
found life a helleva lot tougher as did the others that were lucky enough to even be given a chance somewhere else, instead of dying in the gas chambers.(along with the tens of millions of others who died or lost everything during WW2)
and the troops on the beach off of France, wave on wave to secure victory, they went in and achieved the goal, all of them, though most on both sides didn't make it.
and they had not one second to complain and give up.
Same with those in the proverbial Steinbeck Dust Bowl days.
Actually, 1977-1978 were the single happiest times America ever had.
Til AIDS struck.
Then a generation of great people died. Would venture to guess, as the outbreak hit NY and California the hardest, most of them liberal.
At just the same time the Reagan youth came about.And those that turned Carter down, because he did not go in and shoot them up, they all came out alive.
1977-1978 everyone was starting to feel free, and love was in the air.
Then they took Jimmy Carter down, and foolish democratic voters voted for Reagan.
and took us thousands of years backwards.
And like 1968, misguided fracture in the party. Tis a shame.
Because both Ted and Bobby could have been President. Just not in 1968 for Bobby.
But in 1972 and 1976, and ironicly, Ted could have been in 1980 and 1984
(though the same naysayers wouldn't have wanted either of them or JFK, because they would have cried NO DYNASTY as Kennedy's father already wanted to be President long before them).
Isn't it ironic?
Life isn't a Norman Rockwell White Picket Fence Painting 99% of the time.(Ironically speaking).