Our long national nightmare is over...

[minionofmidas]

International. Our long international nightmare is over.

x Lewis Trondheim

[minionofmidas]

Let's look towards the future, shall we?

We'll start with that tomorrow.

[minionofmidas]

Although I am glad that Bush is finally out of the White House, like Opebo, I am quite pessimistic about Obama's first term as President of the United States, primarily as I expect him to pander to the right on so many occasions it shall not be funny.

Well the last Dem Pres did the same thing and most of the American left still love him.

Uh... no. We wouldn't have had a President Bush if that were true.

[minionofmidas]

The objection was to the claim that the left loved him at any point after 1994.

[minionofmidas]

Certainly won't feel as long.

[minionofmidas]

The objection was to the claim that the left loved him at any point after 1994.

Seriously?  Who the hell voted for the guy in 1996?  I'm talking the "American" left here.

What do you think why 1996 had the lowest turnout in American history? Clinton got only  70% of Obama's raw vote. The Nader campaign of 2000 was created by the Clinton presidency (remember that, for every vote Nader got, another sympathizer bottled out when they understood how close the election was. And Gore ran to Clinton's left.)

Incidentally, a good measure of people with good memories of the Clinton years is, of course, Hilary's primary performance (among non-Blacks, and excluding the later racism and operation Chaos impacted primaries): Centrist Dem partisans remembered him fondly and voted, basically, for a return of the good times. Centrist indies and the left were united in preferring themselves some change.