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[finnbow]

Originally Posted by painter

Maybe so merrylander...maybe so. My decision to vote will most probably hinge on the VP running mate.

Interesting. The office of VP is commonly referred to as the most useless job in the world.

[painter]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Interesting. The office of VP is commonly referred to as the most useless job in the world.

It certainly was this time around. And as I have said on a few occasions...I voted their donkeys in.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by painter

It certainly was this time around. And as I have said on a few occasions...I voted their donkeys in.

John Adams -

"The Vice Presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

[painter]

Originally Posted by finnbow

John Adams -

"The Vice Presidency is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

IMO its going to take two men two terms to get this country back to what it should be. The following men went from that so called menial office to presidency.





"I am vice president. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything." — John Adams, elected vice president 1788 and 1792.


"The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery." — Thomas Jefferson in 1797, when he was vice president.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by painter

IMO its going to take two men two terms to get this country back to what it should be. The following men went from that so called menial office to presidency.





"I am vice president. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything." — John Adams, elected vice president 1788 and 1792.


"The second office of this government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery." — Thomas Jefferson in 1797, when he was vice president.

Which is where?

I believe we're aleady on our way to where I want it to be, albeit too slowly. Well, maybe not exactly, where I want it to be. But if we keep building on exports and the growth I'm seeing in manufacturing of late, we're pointed in the right direction. If we start producing again, the debt will get paid down.

Too bad we can't make the right wing fearmongers stop scaring the hell out of everyone, and the oil industry to stop jacking up gas prices, then maybe the recovery would pick up speed.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by painter

IMO its going to take two men two terms to get this country back to what it should be.

When, exactly, was the country what it should be and why? I personally believe that there's lots of mythology embodied in this POV.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

When, exactly, was the country what it should be and why? I personally believe that there's lots of mythology embodied in this POV.

LOTS and LOTs---Mountains of it in fact. The "Good ol' Days" crap is so deep it's amazing we get any sunlight at all.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

LOTS and LOTs---Mountains of it in fact. The "Good ol' Days" crap is so deep it's amazing we get any sunlight at all.

I think it's people wistfully conflating their idyllic childhood/adolescence years with no worries/responsibilities with what they (incorrectly) remember as a time when all was hunky dory in the world. Now that they've grown up, they attribute their adult concerns to the negative perceptions about the government and America's status in the world. They're forgetting, of course, that adults in the 50's were doing duck-and-cover drills because of the Soviet menace, racism was rampant, and kids caught polio.

[noonereal]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

LOTS and LOTs---Mountains of it in fact. The "Good ol' Days" crap is so deep it's amazing we get any sunlight at all.

well said