Just because the curtain has been pulled back, pls don't leave DU.

[DissidentVoice]

56. What you said!

I voted for Bill Clinton in 1992 for several reasons.

Almost all I had known since I was 14 years old (1980; born in 1966, just barely falling into Generation X) was far-right Republicanism. Two terms of Ronald Reagan's slash-and-burn and one term of George H.W. Bush's running-in-place stagnation...it was more than enough!

Also, I had heard my parents' stories of FDR (who got my grandfather back to work through the WPA) and JFK. Except for Jimmy Carter as a kid, I'd never known life under a Democratic President (OK, LBJ was President when I was born).

I'd seen Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis fall to the Republican smear machine. I thought that even a "centrist" Democrat would be better than Reagan/Bush (and, being from Indiana originally, I was terrified at the thought of Dan Quayle one day becoming President).

I actually voted for Jerry Brown in the primary but threw my support behind Clinton.

For one thing, he said he was going to do something about health care.

Man, was I ever wrong.

When the GOP killed his health plan in 1994, he rolled over and played dead. Then he jumped on the GOP bandwagon with "welfare reform."

I'd been hoping ever since that there was a real DEMOCRAT who would get the White House.

Al Gore wasn't it.

John Kerry wasn't it.

And...Barack Obama isn't it.

I'm sick of the two-party "two sides of the same coin" non-system.