08-27-2018, 11:14 AM
(08-27-2018, 10:48 AM)GMDino Wrote: Sums up my feelings.
I wish he hadn't been torpedoed in 2000 and was POTUS when 9/11 happened. Or maybe it doesn't happen.
He's a tie to a different time. In the US and in politics.
(08-27-2018, 10:56 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: A rare moment of complete consensus. The world we currently live in would look much different, IMO much better, if McCain hadn't been slandered by Karl Rove and was elected POTUS. Even if 9/11 still happened our response would have been confined to Afghanistan and I'm confident we'd have snagged Bin laden much sooner. It was borderline heartbreaking seeing what McCain became in '08 in an attempt to win the office.
This is all an interesting conversation to me because the 2000 election was one where I was paying zero attention. I was 15 that year and more concerned about other things. So the Clinton years and the election of 2000 are things I don't know much about. Discussions like these cause me to look into it and it's always enlightening for me.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
