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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
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I can't say she is wrong and I've only heard the sound bite which is likely out of context. You have to go back in time pretty far to have national events to be be truly proud of, no events recent history (the last 25 years at least) were anything to be particularly proud of, there were no major "greatnesses". The fact that voters in primarily white states are coming out in droves to support a black man for president is indeed a high water mark, something that makes me very proud indeed of Americans and this watershed event with any grace, will be a major blow to the divisions many have invested in. It is on par with the moon landing, which is probably the last major point of pride. That's not to say there weren't very good things that happened, they went hand in hand with disgraceful things though. Our leaders mostly embarrassed us and the public became sheep who stood for nothing and allowed themselves to be bamboozled by one buffoon after another.
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I am a proud American, in awe of our founders and the wisdom of our leaders through our history up to Nixon, They made mistakes too but their insights were remarkable and we went forward. Beginning with Nixon the integrity of the office of President went in the toilet. Carter was a nice man but ineffective, Ford was not so bad but didn't do anything to get excited about (his pardon of Nixon was his only black mark), Reagan obviously was in an Alzheimer stupor as he snoozed through his the Iran Contra thing, a complete embarrassment. Bush SR, didn't do anything to peeve me, but I can't say he made me proud either, I thought it was pretty funny when he went to Japan to try to increase American car sales and the Japanese pointed out that if we wished to sell more cars, we should put the steering wheel on the correct side....then he threw up on them. Clinton managed to balance the budget, which was an accomplishment indeed but negotiated terrible trade deals.
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