What day did you think you'd never, ever see?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

For some of us, we never thought we'd ever see today.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Christmas Day 1967, for one.

The night before, I was lying on a hilltop in Vietnam bleeding through 3 bullet holes.

[peacebird]

6. I am very glad you saw Christmas day 1967!

[Algernon Moncrieff]

12. Damn!!!

No prizes are offered, but I think you win the thread.

If I have not said this before (or even if I have) thank you for your service to our country.

[BainsBane]

2. inauguration day 2009

A black man becoming President of the US. It yet remains to be seen if the American electorate can handle a woman.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

13. I thought I'd see a woman before I saw an African American

I think a woman President happens in the next 20 years.

[lunatica]

19. That was the first time for me. The second was when he was re-elected

That's when I finally relaxed because the second election couldn't be a fluke.

the fact we have Obama as our President still takes my breath away. He has the absolute right to talk today. He's what the original marchers fought for.

[leftofcool]

3. When we could go into retirement with no debt and no mortgage.

[peacebird]

4. The day America declared waterboarding was not torture, and the day America decided to hold people

In a gulag for life without charging them with a crime or offering them a fair trial.
Both days were possible because of the day GWB was selected, Al Gore would have treated 9/11 as a crime, not an excuse to go to war.
I don't know what day it was when the CIA decided to train Bin Laden....


I wish I had not seen any of those days. And sadly with HRC we would continue the never ending wars. It makes too much money for corporations to do anything else.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

16. I just had that argument with a conservative co-worker

The gist of their view seems to be that if it doesn't leave a permanent mark, it's not torture. My view is that if you are imposing physical discomfort to extract information, it's torture -- it's that simple.

[lunatica]

20. When you're extracting the information you want to hear it's torture.

I agree with you.

[Rex]

5. The day a black man was elected president of the United States of America.

I am glad I was alive to see it happen.

[Spazito]

7. The day when a foreign leader would be invited to speak to Congress in order to...

undermine the President of the United States. I never, never, never thought I would see that day.

[Autumn]

8. The day a supreme court would step in and invalidate an election.

[lunatica]

21. To me that day was the day they put the Constitution in the shredder

The country after that day was not the country it was before that day. We just keep pretending we're still that country.

[JaneyVee]

9. When a female candidate for Prez is held to different standards than all male predecessors

On a Democratic forum.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

14. Hillary Clinton has an impressive resume, regardless of gender

Sec State, Senator, FLOTUS, FLOAR. I don't agree with her on everything, but I think she'll make an excellent President.

Elizabeth Warren, who I don't think can get elected president, has done fine work fighting for fairer student loans and better banking policies. If she is the nominee, I will support her.

[catnhatnh]

10. Thelma????? N/T

[HappyMe]

11. Um....Thelma?

[Autumn]

17. Who? Thelma? What about Louise?

[HappyMe]

18. I do know that Who is on first.

I think somebody sent Louise to pick up lunch. She may have taken Thelma with her.

[Runningdawg]

22. I guess I am the glass half full kind...

I never thought I would see the day when I could watch 2 of my gay friends get married and celebrate by smoking a joint. I never doubted we would have a black president in my lifetime (or a woman).

[Arugula Latte]

23. "Stolen Presidential Election Day" when Gee Dubya was handed the prezi-duncy.