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2016 Postmortem

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)

34. Blatant ageism. Shame on you

Reply to fun n serious (Original post)

Sun May 8, 2016, 05:04 AM

May 2016

this is the way to drive young voters away from the Democratic Party. Sanders' supporters are the future of the party, whether you like it or not. Sanders' message is the future of the party, whether you like it or not. One Sanders' supporter will be the best president in our lifetime, and you had better hope to live to see it, even if you did everything to prevent reasonable policies from becoming law.

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Question for Bernie supporters.. [View all] fun n serious May 2016 OP

Jimmy Carter. nt SusanCalvin May 2016 #1

Agreed 100% bvf May 2016 #15

Jimmy Carter - the un-Clinton. nt edgineered May 2016 #2

Jimmy Carter. nt silvershadow May 2016 #3

Obama Jennylynn May 2016 #4

President Obama is the best President in my lifetime virtualobserver May 2016 #5

Although I disagree with some of his policies, Obama. morningfog May 2016 #6

There have been no great presidents in my lifetime. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2016 #7

Yep. nt SusanCalvin May 2016 #9

Agree. (n/t) SMC22307 May 2016 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author TM99 May 2016 #17

word XemaSab May 2016 #24

Barack Ned_Devine May 2016 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author artislife May 2016 #10

I'm happy to see all of the positive responses. fun n serious May 2016 #11

May I ask you to answer your own question? XemaSab May 2016 #25

Given what i have read SwampG8r May 2016 #37

Given I was only old enough to vote for Bush the lesser or Obama I think you know thte answer. MillennialDem May 2016 #13

Jimmy Carter marlakay May 2016 #14

Bingo. nt SusanCalvin May 2016 #38

President Carter chknltl May 2016 #16

Jimmy Carter Databuser May 2016 #18

Mine fun n serious May 2016 #19

Carter enacted deregulation in the trucking, rail, communications, and finance industries.... bettyellen May 2016 #20

Carter, Clinton and Obama were good... enough. lumberjack_jeff May 2016 #21

RFK would have been one. McGovern was one, taken down by the same sort of scandal we might face with highprincipleswork May 2016 #22

Obama. Warren DeMontague May 2016 #23

Since I was old enough to vote, Jimmy Carter. In LibDemAlways May 2016 #26

I wasn't old enough to vote for him, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. JDPriestly May 2016 #27

There wasn’t one. CobaltBlue May 2016 #28

I expected there would be someone who is too pure to be pleased, nt fun n serious May 2016 #29

fun n serious—I’m not in the 65+ voting-age group. CobaltBlue May 2016 #30

Neither am I. nt fun n serious May 2016 #31

Been pretty much downhill in my lifetime, but there was a time when we had decades of majority highprincipleswork May 2016 #32

My first election was in 1972 when I voted for McGovern Jack Rabbit May 2016 #33

Blatant ageism. Shame on you Betty Karlson May 2016 #34

Um...the only Democratic President I've been old enough to vote for is the current one. Chan790 May 2016 #35

Truman B Calm May 2016 #36