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What prompted me to begin this thread was my turning on the news on Thursday night for the lack of anything better to watch. When I started watching I had this feeling of being overwhelmed come over me, and I began to feel so pessimistic about the state of affairs in the world. It was as if there are more and more fires being lit and none of them are being resolved.

Cambell heres my take on recent history. In 1990 the US had just won the Cold War, it was 50 years of living under the gun of Nuclear Annilhation. Finally there was relief that it was over...So in 1992 the Country wanted to forget about world affairs and wanted to party. So we voted in Feel Good Willie. Meanwhile the world hadn't really changed...remember WTC 1993....

After Hilliary Care ...Willie really was hamstrung legislativily, the only things he did was through Executive Order. Those things are mostly under the radar, but are meaningfull none the less.

Then came 911 which shocked Americans back into reality after an 8 year party....


Gephardt only ran for Prez so he could collect his campaign funds warchest and retire...he'd had enough

The Democratic party was allready left by the time Dean came around...remember Pellossi became the Democrats Minority Whip in the House in 2002....So you knew right there that the Dems were going to run an ultra Liberal , that they had taken over the party.


The Best and the Brightest in this country basically don't want anything to do with Politics...who wants to be in the middle of a media **** storm...

I keep on looking at the history of Rome and comparing it to the USA and go....Hmmmmm