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[Gaffer]

Frankly, I think your remembrance of the good old days has focused on liberal media folklore, hardship and values in favor of cute monikers like ‘maniac Richard Nixon’ and Tricky Dick Cheney.

My dad was born in 1914, my mom in 1924. He was the son of a share cropper in SC, she the daughter of a carpenter. Both of them saw and lived the ravages of depression and adversity, and they brought real human values with them out of it. Charity, religion, good will. All coupled with devotion to hard work, honesty and principles.

There’s too much of your post that I really disagree with so I’ll leave it at that, but I walk away with the feeling you’re stretching things much too far with too little personal experience.

[hinckley buzzard]

You appear to be mentally disturbed. That's what it takes to substitute fiction for reality. Best wishes and I hope you get the help you need.

[Resolute Conservative]

Even if your view of the past was all it really was I would take it hands down over today. We didn’t have muslim problems, did not have mexican infiltration at the rate it is today, no queers on every show I watch on tv, not 50% plus of marriages failing, did not have a government hell bent on destroying our rights as free citizens, not graduating kids from college who cannot read/write, did not have crappy music and movies,... the list is infinite.

Yes, I will take the good old days just how they were.

[bigbob]

seems to me you’re either looking for an inhumane and thorough smokehouse bashing, or taking advantage of the date.

[chrisser]

Or, the 1980’s when we had a dimed-light president with the most corrupt administration in the history of our great country - not excluding that of the great Warren G. Harding!

I lived through the 80s. The author obviously didn't.

[Vigilanteman]

Or, the 1980’s when we had a dimed-light president with the most corrupt administration in the history of our great country - not excluding that of the great Warren G. Harding!

That one little snippet tells me all I need to know about whomever wrote this garbage. By ANY reasonable assessment, Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in the last century and probably longer.

Corruption? What the h*** is this writer talking about? Ollie North and Iran-contra? No comparison to Solyndra, Fikster and the raids on the public treasure under the present regime. Not even close. Not even in the same ballpark. Yeah, it was an attempt to circumvent congress to keep a Central American country free. The present regime simply ignores congress for any reason.

And Reagan was one of the most brilliant men to ever serve in the Oval Office. Compare what he accomplished to any modern hero this writer might cite.

[a fool in paradise]

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

[a fool in paradise]

Many of the situations you reference were sponsored by Democrat politicians (for example, protections of slavery and the institution of Jim Crow laws, the horrible FDR economy and the horrible Obama economy today).

Look at single parent statistics. Look at employment figures for able bodies adults.

Things suck today and the culture is in a downward spiral.

[shibumi]

If the comments you posted here are an April Fool's Day joke then I think you ought to at least put that in the keywords. Otherwise my FRiends here might think you have this certain smell .......

Posting History

[CatherineofAragon]

I took a look at your posting history. "Homosexuality is more complex than it seems"; talk about the "bible" and the "christian and his god" (note the small b, c, and g); calling gun ownership a privilege and a "right"; saying "some" call Israel a terrorist state....and now this mess.

I'd guess this might be an April Fool's thing, but IMO you tend to advertise liberal tendencies in the guise of playing devil's advocate.

And what on earth is "dimed-light"?

[Darksheare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lMUwgx0csU

[Darksheare]

Last week, I messed with the Brooklyn Bridge! RAAAAAH!

[PeterPrinciple]

I for one am nostalgic, I long for the days when we had freedom and responsibility.

[Fiji Hill]

How about the 1970’s when we had a maniac president who spent most of his career trying to convince us that he was not a crook. Or, the 1980’s when we had a dimed-light (sic) president with the most corrupt administration in the history of our great country - not excluding that of the great Warren G. Harding!

This was obviously written by a product of our publik skools.

[Nepeta]

I'd like to pick and choose from the past.

I'd like to go back to the kind of behavior when women did not use foul language freely--when in fact few men would use such language in front of women. I find coarse language from women disgusting. It is not "empowering", it is just crude.

I'd like to go back to decent women and girls NEVER dressing like streetwalkers. What kind of parent allows an 11 year old to dress like that?

I would like to recover standard English. The black kids I went through high school with spoke perfect standard English, and that was not remarkable at the time. It was expected.

[ansel12]

Wow, I hope you have someone who takes care of you, you are a raving space case, brainwashed to the hilt, spewing cliches as though you just thought of them, ignorant of the nation and people you are rambling about.

If Obama had a manic 19 year old off his meds, he would write like you.

[Sirius Lee]

You suck.

[Responsibility2nd]

You spent thousands of word moaning about the dismal failures of America. Then you ended it with his...

We're struggling here Mr President - Help us out!

Really? Are you just another sheeple looking to the government (even worse; the president) to solve and resolve our problems?