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Who was President when you first became politically aware?

Who was President when you first became politically aware?

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Ockham said:
For me it was Carter and the 444 days that engrossed the US at the time. I think the actual point it hit me was when the Delta Force chopper crashed in the desert, part of the elaborate and failed rescue attempt of Carter who basically was milquetoast up to that point and then became a laughing stock milquetoast. It's at that particular point I started to dislike the man and continue to this day after finding out more about him both in office and out.
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Actually, I think Carter was a good man and a real Christian (there aren't many, not really), but didn't have the balls to play international hardball. Maybe he was too good and kind.

Kind of like the current POTUS, actually.

and the economic woes he was blamed for were really the result of OPEC manipulating the cost of oil more than anything else.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Actually, I think Carter was a good man and a real Christian (there aren't many, not really), but didn't have the balls to play international hardball. Maybe he was too good and kind.

Kind of like the current POTUS, actually.

and the economic woes he was blamed for were really the result of OPEC manipulating the cost of oil more than anything else.
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Don't know about that - he was not equipped to be President at the time, and since he's left office he's been more of a fool than even I could imagine.
 
Ockham said:
Don't know about that - he was not equipped to be President at the time, and since he's left office he's been more of a fool than even I could imagine.
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How has he been a fool, going around helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity? I haven't heard him say much politically.
 
Dittohead not! said:
How has he been a fool, going around helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity? I haven't heard him say much politically.
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His pro-Hamas stance is just for starters. His oversite of Venezuala's elections with Chavez..., Robert Mugabe, Castro's, Kim Jong Ill.... then the absolute moronic things that he says and that he's an well known anti-semite and bigot. Now that may be okay with you, but I find the fool simply showed his true colors after leaving office. I urge you to review his post Presidential doings - they're quite interesting.
 
Ockham said:
His pro-Hamas stance is just for starters. His oversite of Venezuala's elections with Chavez..., Robert Mugabe, Castro's, Kim Jong Ill.... then the absolute moronic things that he says and that he's an well known anti-semite and bigot. Now that may be okay with you, but I find the fool simply showed his true colors after leaving office. I urge you to review his post Presidential doings - they're quite interesting.
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I hadn't heard any of that. I guess I haven't been keeping track of Jimmy Carter lately.

When I do see him, he usually has a hammer in his hand.
 
I was sent to two meritorious promotion boards and was suppose to know current events/politics. Been kind a political junkie ever since.
 
Dittohead not! said:
I hadn't heard any of that. I guess I haven't been keeping track of Jimmy Carter lately.

When I do see him, he usually has a hammer in his hand.
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And marbles in his head.
 
shrubnose said:
Eisenhower.
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I remember seeing Eisenhower's inauguration...actually on a newsreel at a theater. We didn't have a TV. Not many people did at that time.

I guess when Kennedy was elected and the Cuban Missile Crisis happened...well, I was too young to vote Kennedy, but that event got my attention. I started paying close attention to government. I first voted in the LBJ, Goldwater election.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Not only a Canadian, but a young one. Do the kids in Canada wear their pants hanging off the bottom of their fannies like they do in the US?

Just wondering about international fashion trends. I know it's off the subject.
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Some of them but mostly only the gangbangers or gangbanger wannabes.
 
Ironically i was born in August 1976, when Ford was President, who was the only Republican i really ever
liked, and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before the GOP went bat **** crazy to the right, good guy, not a very good President, Carter had to really dig deep to beat him later that year..

I didn't start becoming politically active until i worked as a volunteer for Slick Willie in 1992, that was a GREAT YEAR, Billy really put an ass whupping on Bush SR, who looked lost and very weak against the young upstart..:bravo:
 
Ockham said:
Don't know about that - he was not equipped to be President at the time, and since he's left office he's been more of a fool than even I could imagine.
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Is a man who is decent and helps his fellow man a fool ? I find this to be strange, even perverted ..
I am not a Jimmy Carter fan .. but , one must admire his humanity .. In order for a man to be a successful politician, particularly on the world stage, he must be a bit of a bastard .. There are too many who use an "evil rulebook" .. here and abroad ..
 
earthworm said:
Is a man who is decent and helps his fellow man a fool ? I find this to be strange, even perverted ..
I am not a Jimmy Carter fan .. but , one must admire his humanity .. In order for a man to be a successful politician, particularly on the world stage, he must be a bit of a bastard .. There are too many who use an "evil rulebook" .. here and abroad ..
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I'm not a Carter fan either, and I completely disagree with his Israel/Palestine views, but I do think he's a decent human being and intends no malice.
 
earthworm said:
Is a man who is decent and helps his fellow man a fool ? I find this to be strange, even perverted ..
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Then I'd say you have a problem. The man is a bigot and yes a fool. To answer your question sure he can help his fellow man all he wants it doesn't exonerate him.

earthworm said:
I am not a Jimmy Carter fan .. but , one must admire his humanity .. In order for a man to be a successful politician, particularly on the world stage, he must be a bit of a bastard .. There are too many who use an "evil rulebook" .. here and abroad ..
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I don't admire his humanity, he was a fool then and he's a fool now and in death he will be a fool, regardless of how many times he swings him hammer for HFH.
 
I guess it would have to be Kennedy... his assassination kinda put a damper on my 11th birthday.

I became acutely "aware" before graduating from high school..... facing a draft kinda makes you stand up and pay attention.
 
radcen said:
I'm not a Carter fan either, and I completely disagree with his Israel/Palestine views, but I do think he's a decent human being and intends no malice.
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I am not qualified to comment on his personal decency and intentions. But Jimmy Carter was one of the worst Presidents in US history (not the worst, but he is in the bottom 5). And he is the absolute worst ex-President in US History.
 
Nixon. My parents voted for him and were so hurt when he resigned. That's when the 2 party concept first really occurred to me.
 
The very first political position that i recall actually holding and defending was being agains the War in Iraq when I was around 12. So Bush 2
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
I'm going to say early in the Bush II years. There is an argument to be made that the seeds were sewn in the Clinton era, but I simply wasn't old enough to have a legitimate understanding of what politics was, precocious as I may have been.

Once I started understanding the concept of politics properly, I REALLY got into, REALLY quickly. I was extremely active by the time I started high school, which was 2 or 3 years into Bush II's first term.
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Pretty much the same with me, though I'm a couple years older. 9/11 happened at the beginning of my freshman year of high school, and suddenly there was political discussion everywhere. It was on the periphery around me before that, and I had been aware of some of the insanity involved in the 2000 election, but I didn't really get it until war, racism, religious violence, religious bigotry, and the illegitimacy of Bush's presidency not merely being a bad thing but possibly a disastrous thing, was suddenly on everyone's lips.

I imagine the beginning of Bush jr's presidency marked this turned point for a lot of young people at the time.
 
LeoVlaming said:
I am not qualified to comment on his personal decency and intentions. But Jimmy Carter was one of the worst Presidents in US history (not the worst, but he is in the bottom 5). And he is the absolute worst ex-President in US History.
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At least Carter didn't get us into a foreign war.
 
Your Star said:
Bush 2. I was 10 when he was elected.
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Anagram said:
Right about when the 2008 election was starting up, when I was 14.
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STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD!!!!!

;)

Clinton was mine for when I started to actually come to grasp a bit of it. I was "aware" of it under GWHB, but generaly just hating riding home from the skating rink after school with my dad who was listening to boring talk radio instead of the pop statoin ;)

Clinton was the President in middle school as they were doing the "kid news" type stuff before home room. He was the one in office as I began to get a mild understanding of american politics. The lewinski issue happened right in my early teen years. He was the guy in office (But heading out) when I had my US Politics class in high school. It'd definitely be Clinton.
 
LeoVlaming said:
He did prefer acts of war against the US to go unanswered, thereby gravely damaging the international security order.
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Yes, I wonder why he didn't think of trading arms for hostages while he was still in power?
 
Dittohead not! said:
Yes, I wonder why he didn't think of trading arms for hostages while he was still in power?
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He's the one who basically encouraged the taking of hostages on a large scale as an efficient and fairly risk-free strategy.
 
Bush II, probably around the 2004-ish elections, when I actually grasped some knowledge of politics. Before that the only things I really remember related to politics was a mock election in 1996 at school, which I voted Dole, probably due to the name (as I had no idea who the hell either were). Also remember hearing a little bit about the Lewinsky scandal.
 
shrubnose said:
Eisenhower.
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Yeah, I liked Ike, but wasn't really politically aware until JFK. My Dad told me all about Stevenson and wished that he'd throw his hat into the primary race again.
 
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