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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (100437)	8/31/2011 2:04:07 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

See even this writer buys into doom, pronouncing how AMERICANS, writ large, are in such a funk. Someone went on a nice talk abt optimism on twitter lats night which I enjoyed. It seems the right & left are in a death match to see who can be gloomiest and think America is most broken and its people the most awful-stupid-useless-etc. It's really quite tiring at times. I wish they'd just get a room. :)

To: tejek who wrote (100437)	8/31/2011 2:21:17 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Reagan did win with optimism. Carter was on TV, wearing a sweater in the WH, thermostat set at 68 degrees in the winter, telling us all that our best days were behind us. I didn't vote for Reagan, but I didn't vote for Carter either. Obama isn't doing that. If the (R) candidate does, he won't be elected. That said, I DO think our high point was reached in the late 1960's. We'd come out of WWII with the only intact industrial base, and sold our shit to the entire world, desperate for goods to get back on their feet. WE became fat, lazy and happy. Now, the rest of the world has caught up, and some are moving beyond us. Their populations are looking at rising standards of living, and are EAGER to grab cars, computers and TV's, things we already have. We're looking at flat to declining wages, for those that can get a job. Mirror image perspectives.