I am 36... this is what I remember...and thats why I am a Democrat.

marano

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Thu Oct-14-04 06:30 PM
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I am 36... this is what I remember...and thats why I am a Democrat.

I was born in '68 so I was not here when former Neo-Cons has President Kennedy assasinated. I do remember Watergate mostly because it interupted Batman everyday. I do remember Gerald Ford pardoning Nixon, did not understand the implications of it then but remember my Daddy raising hell about it. I remember Jimmy Carter. I remember that he was fought against by what we now call Neo-Cons the whole time he was in office. I remember them saying how he gave the Panama Canal away as if it was ever ours to give.

I remember standing in the unemployment lines with my Daddy when I was out for the summer during the recession. I remember going to work with him at a local Cabinet makers shop when he could not find work anywhere else. I remember having to go to vacation bible school with the cabinet makers son even though I did not want to because thats where us kids went while our fathers worked. In the deep south that is what the faithful do with their children during the summer months. The cabinet maker who was a good man but an ignorant one was very Southern religous as my father is not. I know that he did not want to subject me to that but he did what he had to to put food on the table. I know that my Father is one of the best and hardest working men in the world. I know that he is honest and cares more for his fellow man than anyone I know. I can remember him telling me at a dentist office when I was about twelve that it was not right to take a magazine from the lobby because other people will have to wait and they need something to read. I remember during that same period that my family had to apply for foodstamps because things had gotten so bad. I remember my Daddy and Mother fighting about it because she did not want to do it. I remember that in my part of south Alabama that if you got foodstamps other peopole looked at you as "sorry" or "lazy" because the Republican party and its biggotry is huge here. I remember having to drive to Mobile, Alabama to get groceries because my Mother was too ashamed to use the foodstamps in our little town.

I remember the Iran/Contra affair. I remember the main players being pardoned by George H. W. Bush and the rest being sentenced to probation when millions of Americans were being jailed for much, much less.

I remember how this nation prospered under the Clinton administration. I remember that he was the most investigated President in the history of this country. I remember that the only thing he was ever found guilty of was receiving a blow-job from a 21 year old girl in the Whitehouse. I remember he lied about it. I remember thinking if I was married to a lawyer I would too. I remember thinking...so fuking what...look at all the good he has done and all the good he has tried to do for this country all the while being attacked by the Money people in this nation.

THATS WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS RUN BY THE RICH AND WILL ALWAYS BE FOR THE RICH AND DOES NOT CARE ONE BIT ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME OR MY MEMORIES.