I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

HMMMMM? You mean being old enough to know that "Reagan was a political genius" is horseshit, sonny?

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius),

I will keep doing, but not worth it!

I don't remember the GHWB years at all. I don't think I knew who was President until the 1996 election.

ford was the first person i really remember. i mean i knew nixon's face and who he was but i remember seeing ford talk on t.v. and chevy made him a human for us. and then of course the 1976 thing was such a huge year for me as a kid. me and neighborhood kids got in the paper for writing carter grafitti on the sidewalk. election fever. bicentennial hoohah. and then carter just looked sadder and more tired on t.v. every year. but we had billy to keep us entertained.

i was a big bush supporter in 1992

and then carter just looked sadder and more tired on t.v. every year.

See, that's the Carter I personally remember. Everyone always went on about his big smile and pearly teeth, but I only knew him as

http://i.imgur.com/VQ62zDs.jpg

^^ Know what the context is of that photo? Answering questions about the Iran hostage crisis? No. Addressing concerns about Three Mile Island? No....

... He's officially announcing that he will run for a second term in 1980.

this is the Jimmy C I remember. jumping jimmy carter, they called him.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1382607/original.jpg

do you guys know what gerald ford's real name was? NO GOOGLING.

Leslie.

He was a guy named Leslie.

leslie . . . king? something like that

Leslie Lynch King Jr.!

good job ford nerds.

I don't remember the GHWB years at all. I don't think I knew who was President until the 1996 election.

― example (crüt), Saturday, February 6, 2016 1:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not much worth remembering, other than his classic "no new taxes" gaffe, Iraq War, and that he liked making short people feel bad.

and the puking

dana carvey pretty funny though.

xpost lol forgot about that. my 5th grade class was clowning him the day after that

also seward otm

Also this:
http://youtu.be/Ervjj_qRXXQ

For me Hillary's "foreign policy experience" is a huge negative. She voted with W on the Iraq War. She has been privy to the entire post 9/11 shitshow. She is partly responsible for the sorry state of things today (unless her positions have been meaningless) and her current position is to continue the status quo.

I remember Bush going on network TV from the oval office, holding up a big bag of crack, and saying, "my fellow Americans, this is all MINE."

http://i.imgur.com/F8wJAFd.jpg

The Poppy Bush years were such a bizarre inter zone -- more than the Clinton years

For me Hillary's "foreign policy experience" is a huge negative. She voted with W on the Iraq War. She has been privy to the entire post 9/11 shitshow. She is partly responsible for the sorry state of things today (unless her positions have been meaningless) and her current position is to continue the status quo.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, February 6, 2016 3:55 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Holy cow, Jeffrey Sachs is feeling the Bern
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-candidate_b_9168938.html

Jeffrey Sachs is a Scarborough-"Mika" acolyte, both of whom love "Bernie," so I'm not surprised.

Ah, I see, he's just stirring up trouble for Hill, then?

sachs doesn't even mention bernie sanders in that piece

http://lumal.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Gerald-Ford-Jimmy-Carter-Ronald-Reagan-George-Bush-Richard-Nixon-Reagan-Library-Opening.jpg

https://presidentsrus.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/reagan-younger-bush.jpg

mrs jeb otm

jeb's wife not here for this shit

looks like Bianca Jagger

sachs doesn't even mention bernie sanders in that piece

Oh my god! So fucking sorry

gawd, the sound of his belligerent hectoring really takes me back. such a prig.

(bush 41)

never fails...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbZqvMu2cQ

I remember (vaguely) Watergate from the clipped, urgent voices on the news and Nixon resigning, then going off in his helicopter. I remember nobody liking him. Carter/Ford was the first election I followed: a neighbour a year younger than me precociously wrote to Jimmy Carter with advice about weathering bullies and was invited to the Inauguration. His family were relatively poor - lots of makeshift plastic sheet repair on the windows - his parents, an ex-seminarian and ex-novice who'd run away from Catholicism together, only to wind up as hippie parents to two kids whose oddness was underlined by their many food allergies (a local company found out they were always broke and donated the plane tickets). We liked Carter at home; my mother couldn't stand Ted Kennedy because of something called Chappaquiddick. I don't remember any opinions on the Nixon pardon. I was allowed to stay up and watch the updates about the hostage crisis, by the time it finished I was allowed to babysit and often had to stay at neighbours' houses watching Nightline while the kids slept. My dad's parents (DFL since FDR) had personal experience of Reagan, from my grandfather's time as a brightish young thing trying to break into film, and subsequent trips to visit with their old friends who'd been successful in so doing. He didn't live to see Reagan win, but my grandmother said she'd never vote again if 'that broken-down movie cowboy' won.

I remember vaguely watching network/debate/convention coverage in '84 and'88, watching it with my mom, and then using Doonesbury/Bloom County as prisms to attempt to understand the many stiff candidates vying for power. That G. Ferraro as a VP candidate was a big deal, figuring out how to pronounce the name. Clearest early memories of a presidential contest were '92, probably because I was in high school and reading Time/Newsweek.

First real awareness of someone as the actual president was Reagan, who seemed feeble and remote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JTtI3D6lqk

The old boy is in pretty good form for about an hour, lies and all. What an actor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_jTDUhT0A

it's no "please clap" but...

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jeb-on-jeb-bush-says-take-a-hike-after-191515752.html

Countdown to Jeb telling someone to "go jump in a lake."

I feel like Jeb is going to start accruing a cult following, nourished by the pathos of his campaign and the futility of his gestures.

He's gonna become a tumblr meme if he isn't one already

https://www.frinkiac.com/meme/S09E20/406338.jpg?lines=Jeb%21

http://i.imgur.com/0rvwnU9.png

None of the Republican debates this year have lived up to the carnage I always root for, although they've had their moments. I go into each one trying to figure out who's the most desperate and who might toss a Hail Mary pass--get really nasty, go off script, turn on the moderators like Gingrich, etc. Can't see that it'll be Trump tonight, who's up in NH and still has last week's embarrassment close at hand. I figure Christie, Bush, or even Cruz, who's way behind in NH.

is network tv news somehow even worse than it used to be? i'm watching the abc pre-debate show and it is maybe one step up from Channel 1, the home room channel made BY teens FOR teens.

10 minutes elapsed while some radio guy made jokes about how deep his voice was and the face made for radio thing, and then they cut back the studio duo, who asked a follow-up question about how deep the guy's voice was

they're talking about the importance of where they are positioned tonight up on stage. turns out for some reason the leading candidates are placed adjacent to each other tonight, so there's gonna be a lot of tension you better believe it

"literally anything could be asked"

Q: only one minute to go til it starts, what's the most important thing left to say? A: don't forget to go to abcnews.go.com/live, you can download a debate BINGO card! wtf is this