Reminiscing About The 92 Election

I was thinking about the fact that there was a three way statistical tie between Clinton, Bush, and Perot with Perot holding a small lead then Perot dropped out of the race because he said the GOP was trying to wreck his daughter's wedding and Clinton opened up a huge lead over Bush... Then Perot got back in the race and Clinton's lead narrowed...

What a race...

I was traveling through red South Carolina during the election and remember two things as if they were yesterday... I was eating at a Applebees in Hilton Head the day before the election and there was this obviously well to do older couple in the booth right in front of me... They saw the writing on the wall and they were discussuing what a Clinton presidency would be like...They obviously weren't Democrats but felt he would be a responsible leader...

My fondest memory, perhaps one of the fondest memories of my life, was seeing two older African gentlemen who were bellhops at the Omni Charleston , looking at a USA Today headline about Clinton's victory...One turned to the other and said "he kicked his ass"...LOL

I had been a registered (although not practicing) republican from 1981. Just like the drugs and alcohol....it's one of those things I don't miss at all.

NAFTA, WTO, China, welfare "reform", '96 Telecom Act, the gap between the rich and the rest of us opening to a record setting chasm, the proliferation of the working poor, oh, and those 500,000 dead Iraqi innocents that Clinton caused via sanctions and thrice weekly bombings.

Sure, next to Bushboy, Clinton looks kind and compassionate, but then again so would Attila the Hun. Doesn't excuse the fact that Clinton's policies weren't very people friendly.

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Can't deny the facts of history, just try and spin them.

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I remember it well. I was away at college, and my absentee ballot took forever to arrive in the mail. When it did (one week before the actual election), I was SOOOOOOO excited! I locked myself in my dorm room to carefully punch out all the right holes. When I was finished, I stamped it and dropped it in the mailbox. To this day, I truly believe it got there on time! :patriot: :woohoo:

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I had watched the 1988 returns with the county Democratic group, but since then, I had been frozen out, along with everyone else who objected to aid to the Contras or other ways of appeasing the Republicans. I had asked to be put back on the mailing list several times, and nothing happened, so I dropped out of party politics except for voting.

Anyway, I was by myself, and I remember when the results were announced and the TV coverage went to a live shot from Little Rock, with the Clintons standing on the balcony of some building and the street filled with a cheering crowd.

Although Clinton had not been my first choice, I was so relieved to get rid of the Reagan-Bush mafia that I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

The disappointments came quickly: caving in on gays in the military, bumbling the health care issue, welfare reform, NAFTA, losing Congress, the whole bit.

Instead of undoing the Reagan revolution, he always seemed more interested in keeping the Republicans from getting angry with him than in doing what was right for the country.

Bullies can smell a wuss a mile off, and the brass knuckles came out.

"Bullies can smell a wuss a mile off, and the brass knuckles came out."

It would have been to their benefit to have a "tool" in office.

Just as an example: gays in the military.

As a friend of mine who's an expert on American history pointed out, Truman got much more grief about integrating the military racially than Clinton ever did about gays. This was before Brown vs. the Board of Education, and segregation had the force of law throughout the South and even in parts of the North.

So what did Truman do? He called in the Joint Chiefs of Staff and told them that as Commander in Chief, he was ordering an end to racial discrimination in the military and that anyone who refused to follow that order would be court-martialed for insubordination.

That's how you get your agenda through.

Instead, Clinton always back-pedaled on whatever issue came up, and the Republicans were like sharks smelling blood in the water.

It was partly his over-eagerness to please the Republicans and partly (I'm convinced) payback for the ouster of Senator Bob Packwood (for sexual harassment), who was extremely well-liked by his fellow Republicanites.