what was the best time in American history?

monty1 said:
Life in America has never been as good for 'all' the people as it has been in many modern European countries and Canada. When Obamacare kicks in fully because of public demand it may be. Providing America hasn't squandered it's chance to be great by practicing it's hate politics that has proven so destructive.
luv from Canada.
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Yes, increasing my premium 87% is a great deal. Thank god I have the free 'healthcare' of the VA to fall back on.
 
Threedee said:
Carter's idealism is admirable, but unfortunately he was incompetent and naïve (particularly about the attitudes of Congressional Dems who disliked him). Much like Bush II, who was all about non-intervention and domestic reform, healing the dot com bust, reforming the tax code, etc. Once 9/11 happened, his total incompetence flared up, and his ignorance became a huge liability.
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His response to 9/11 was his finest hour in the face of one of the worst terrorists attacks in our history..both militarily and economically....even in the face of
a hostile media and the insanely partisan political party that owned them...both hellbent on avenging the impeachment of the perjuring, national embarrassment before him.
 
NOVA said:
His response to 9/11 was his finest hour in the face of one of the worst terrorists attacks in our history..both militarily and economically....even in the face of
a hostile media and the insanely partisan political party that owned them...both hellbent on avenging the impeachment of the perjuring, national embarrassment before him.
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Are you really referring to Bush II who was reading a book about a goat at the time?

If his response to 9/11 was his finest hour, then his presidency REALLY sucked the big lemon.

I personally thought his call for immigration reform was one of his few shining moments.
 
His response was to ultimately get us bogged down in Iraq. Brilliant strategy.

LOLZ at the faux controversy Dems still tell about about the kindergarten class, though.
 
Threedee said:
His response was to ultimately get us bogged down in Iraq. Brilliant strategy.

LOLZ at the faux controversy Dems still tell about about the kindergarten class, though.
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That goat thing really speaks to Bush's competence as a leader (which, after all, was one of his 2 campaign points - cutting taxes, and being a leaderrrrrr).

Would Clinton have sat there that long? Reagan? Even Bush's father?

No way. Bush was more concerned about "not panicking the kids," than about America being under attack.
 
I would have yelled out a duck and cover drill and gone sprinting out if the classroom yelling "chaaaaarge!!" if I had the foresight to bring along a bugler, I would have had him sound the command.
 
Threedee said:
I would have yelled out a duck and cover drill and gone sprinting out if the classroom yelling "chaaaaarge!!" if I had the foresight to bring along a bugler, I would have had him sound the command.
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yeah, thats what the pinheads expected....jump and yell and scream, as if there was some immediate action that could make a difference.....the stupidity of tekky and thinky's posts are useless to respond to in a serious manner.....there retorts are so childish and show such a lack of mature thought.....
its irrational to think there was anything Bush could do that would have or could have changed the attack in progress in any way....and Bush realized that from the beginning.
That attack would play out as it did and there was nothing anyone could do to change that reality....

I expected nothing better from those two anyway....
 
NOVA said:
yeah, thats what the pinheads expected....jump and yell and scream, as if there was some immediate action that could make a difference.....the stupidity of tekky and thinky's posts are useless to respond to in a serious manner.....there retorts are so childish and show such a lack of mature thought.....
its irrational to think there was anything Bush could do that would have or could have changed the attack in progress in any way....and Bush realized that from the beginning.
That attack would play out as it did and there was nothing anyone could do to change that reality....

I expected nothing better from those two anyway....
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And he followed up his goat reading with urgent pleas for everyone to go and shop. Then he nearly bankrupted the country by spending on two wars and STILL didn't get the guy who attacked us on 9/11

No, 9/11 was NOT his finest hour. Bill Clinton would have pulled the country together. He would have stayed in Afghanistan until we got bin Laden and not been distracted by a war based on lies in Iraq. He might also have gotten us to finally get serious about energy conservation and alternative energy sources so we would be less dependent on the middle east.

Bush? he sucked.
 
tekkychick said:
And he followed up his goat reading with urgent pleas for everyone to go and shop. Then he nearly bankrupted the country by spending on two wars and STILL didn't get the guy who attacked us on 9/11

No, 9/11 was NOT his finest hour. Bill Clinton would have pulled the country together. He would have stayed in Afghanistan until we got bin Laden and not been distracted by a war based on lies in Iraq. He might also have gotten us to finally get serious about energy conservation and alternative energy sources so we would be less dependent on the middle east.

Bush? he sucked.
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No he would have just bombed and bombed and bombed Afghanistan until we were out of bombs. Or he would have done the whole surge thing, which we can see how well that works today.

Also, we are not "dependent" on the ME for oil. Over 85% comes from Mexico and Canada.
 
Thing1 said:
That goat thing really speaks to Bush's competence as a leader (which, after all, was one of his 2 campaign points - cutting taxes, and being a leaderrrrrr). Would Clinton have sat there that long? Reagan? Even Bush's father? No way. Bush was more concerned about "not panicking the kids," than about America being under attack.
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It's all about the children.

BTW, what did FDR do in the first hour after he was told about Pearl Harbor?
 
Steelplate said:
This thread is so old...so I may have answered this already....I think the Post WWII era was our best time in American History....up to say....1970. Unions were strong, there was no global competition to speak of and the country thrived.
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You did say that already.

So when American corporations had "no global competition" because a lot of Europe and Asia had been decimated by war, that was a good time?
 
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