How many DUers are old enough to have experienced our bad losses?

[JDPriestly]

89. I remember way back to Truman's victory -- unexpected but a victory.

I also remember way back to Kennedy's victory, and Johnson's victory.

All solid liberals on domestic issues. Johnson was especially liberal on domestic issues and surprisingly opposed to racism for a Texan. That is apparently because of his experience teachin Spanish-speaking children in a school in Texas when he was young.

I also remember McGovern's loss in 1972. In fact, I remember campaigning for McGovern that year. One of the events I remember was registering voters in a public library. And the lovely lady I sat next that day was none other than Jimmy Carter's mother. She told me about her wonderful son.

MohRokTah, Ms. Carter was working for McGovern whom you described as a liberal loser (you don't use those words but that is what I think you mean).

Nixon and Reagan used the race card to win their elections.

Carter was defeated by the economy, not by Reagan. And the economy was bad because OPEC raised petroleum prices and thus squeezed the American people at the gas pump.

Clinton presided over a pretty good economy that followed the recession in the Bush years and the inflation of the early Reagan years, but the bills he signed and his reappointments of Greenspan set the stage for a horrible economy during the Bush years. Bush tried to cover up just how bad the economy was by overheating it, especially the housing market, encouraging an unrealistic mortgage sector.

The recession of 2008 was the result. While Bush with his war, easing of taxes on the rich and goosing of the housing market was primarily at fault, Clinton set the stage for the 2008 crash and paved the way for Bush's mismanagement of the economy.

The reappointment of Greenspan by Clinton was an unforgivable mistake.

But then we add NAFTA, the Telecommunications Act (which practically silenced liberal -- or more accurately, rational -- thought on the TV and radio), the Defense of Marriage Act, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the setting up of the Iraq War, etc. and really, Clinton was about as close to being a Republican as a Democrat could be.

I for one do not want four more years of Clinton. The country does not deserve it. Sorry, MohRokTah. I remember way back further to you, back when our country was doing well, when we had a middle class that could own a house and a car on one income, when public schools were good, when college was affordable, when you made enough money to pay your doctor and health insurance was non-profit if needed at all, when working people belonged to unions. I'm not saying everything was better when we had liberal Democrats (and a liberal Republican -- Eisenhower) managing our economy, but it sure was better than it has been since the Republicans started winning with Nixon.

I'm liberal and I'm proud, and I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. She will repeat the mistakes of the Bill Clinton presidency. We don't need that.