What were you terrified of in the Clinton Era?

[CJCRANE]

Of course these days we're all meant to be terrified of muslims.

Somehow as soon as Bush II came onto the scene muslims suddenly became the source of all evil in the world and now we have to be reminded of it 24/7.

But what were we terrified of in the 90's?

[longship]

1. My wife's dog.

;-)

[Bandit]

2. That I wouldn't get a blowjob also

:shrug: :wtf: Eight years of Peace and Prosperity hardly warrants being terrified of anything..

[bigbrother05]

3. The Blue Dress; n/t

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

17. ditto. nt

[Nimrod2005]

4. Whether he came on a blue dress or on her lips...That's about it.

[Keepontruking]

7. What were you afraid of???

That a Republican would follow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   

Circus Girl

[CJCRANE]

14. Hi

Keepontruking/Circus Girl. I'm guessing that question was possibly meant for my OP...

In terms of what I was afraid of in the 90's...not much.

I wasn't interested in politics at all, I was totally apathetic. I would never have guessed that I would become a "loony lefty" in the 21st century. Maybe that would've terrified me if I'd known.

[partylessinOhio]

5. Nothing then or now, not skeered!

[Red Right and BLUE]

6. Never-ending Monica coverage. eom

[Tom Joad]

8. Same thing I'm terrified of now. The actions of my own government.

It starts and supports too many wars, too much injustice. Corporate power would be another thing.

[Avalux]

9. Nothing.

Right now I'm terrified of the diabolical people making decisions in our name.

[ForrestGump]

10. My wife

And then, when the whole Monica thing went down (no pun intended), the irrational and deeply disturbing response of a vast number of Americans and the full revelation of just how far the right wing had gone in its attempts to hunt Clinton down. I thought the whole country had gone insane, and the coup of 2000 merely confirmed that.

[Wickerman]

11. That George W. Bush would get elected Governor of Texas

:scared:

[Avalux]

18. he he. That's not funny.

:cry:

[Wickerman]

46. It still pains me we didn't shut him down

Hey, what is that pic in your avatar? Looks cool. :hi:

[Avalux]

48. Yeah, I know.

My avatar - a painting of mine; I call it apocalypse, lol. Thanks! :hi:

[ikojo]

12. I was laid off three times during the

Clinton era...it was the beginning of customer service type jobs and claims processing jobs being outsourced to cheaper places such as the south and Jamaica.

I feared losing my job because I cannot compete with someone in Springfield MO who is willing to be paid $14k a year for a job that previously paid $21k a year in 1996.

[zeemike]

13. I was terrified that my computer would crash

It was all so new to me then.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. That blue dresses would be

outlawed. Fortunately we now have nothing to fear on that front.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

16. Overzealous neo-phyte PNAC power mongers

They were just on their training wheels back then, now they're driving the bus.

[high density]

19. Idiot teachers & fellow students at high school...

:)

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. Republicans.

[Chipper Chat]

21. acne.

.: >; ..:: ,. ..

[Jamastiene]

22. The Republicans taking over again and

destroying our progress was my biggest fear and it has come true in the worst possibly way. They sure are momentum killers, except when it's their Joe. :(

[patricia92243]

23. Republican power - putting the POTUS sex life on tv turned me into a Democ

Democrat.

[Mike03]

24. Happiest Time of my Life

I remember buying Bill Clinton's book prior to the election and reading it and just feeling so happy and relieved that someone had a plan, and someone had some ethics. And I remember how happy I was to see that Al Gore would be his running mate, and how psyched I was to visit my local Democratic Headquarters back then. The "impeachment" attempt was the only negative part of those years. I still have video tapes of the debates and the McNeil Lehrer news hour when Bill or Al would be on them. My whole life has been dominated by Reagan/Bush/Bush, and disaster, war, scandal. Bill Clinton and Al Gore was the only time I felt really proud to be an American.

[whistle]

25. Nothing really, except that republicans might get control of things

....oh and Newt Gingrich and the religious right wing, but not in a terror way, just that they might become more of a nuisance and hurt education and economic opportunities for everyone. Looking back now, I guess I should have been terrified.

[Blue Belle]

26. That the OJ trial would never end....

That Milli-Vanilli would launch a comeback tour... That hot neon pink would perpetually be hailed as the new black... That Whitney Houston would make more movies... That talk shows hosted by Magic Johnson and Chevy Chase would actually find an audience...

Nothing really terrified me in the 90's because Clinton was in charge.

[Solly Mack]

27. I was greatly worried about the ramifications of constant attacks

on a President and the impeachment of said President over a blow job.

The abuse of office by those in Congress is what worried me.

I worried what it mean down the road....and just what was really being gained by the constant attacks.

Our system of government was being greatly abused then...by members of Congress.

Now it's being abused even worse by both the executive and members of Congress

It wasn't simple hate driving the attacks on Clinton...not for those in office anyway and not by those funding and promoting the attacks.

Sure, they worked their followers up into a frenzy but the money and strategy behind the attacks had a bigger goal than mere impeachment.

You don't tear a country asunder for a blow job....there's something more you are striving for...and it's not just to discredit Clinton either.

By the time Bush hit office a lot of the people were already tired of the constant investigations and just wanted it to all go away....how hard is it to take advantage of a population already worn out by the "politics" of it all?

[tridim]

28. Newt.

[Initech]

29. Um.......nothing.

[PassingFair]

30. My children finding Time magazine under the bed.

We called it "Blow-Job Weekly".

Someone had given us a subscription as a gift before
the whole thing "blew-up", and, well, what a JOKE.

Near the end, they actually put out an entire "issue" devoted
specifically to the "affair". Or, the "All Blow-Job Issue".

Saw it at a garage sale the other week end and almost bought it.

[tk2kewl]

31. The Clenis!

:scared:

[TheFriedPiper]

32. Nothing. I'm not scared and I refuse to let the TV make me

IM NOT SCARED ENOUGH TO VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!!

[cmf]

33. George W. Bush winning the 2000 election

So my worse nightmare actually came true. :scared:

[MoseyWalker]

34. This is a key

to our "everything has changed since 9/11" world.

I think about it quite a bit

K & R

:thumbsup:

[sandnsea]

35. Actually, getting sick without health insurance

Which is gradually becoming reality. And after the Cole, the terrorists. Although I didn't worry so much about the environment, education, jobs, food safety, real poverty, etc. etc. etc.

[OzarkDem]

36. Nothing

I always felt whatever problems came up, Clinton and Congressional Dems could deal with it.

[and-justice-for-all]

37. Nothing that I can recall, it was pretty nice...

[Big Kahuna]

38. I grew up during the 70's and 80's was terrified of nuclear war.

That's the propaganda they were pushing back then. I eventually "grew up" and realized living in fear is no way to live.

I can't say that I'm this big bad-ass that doesn't fear death.. it will most likely hurt and is something to avoid. But it is an inescapable fact that every single human being, who has ever lived, has died, or will die at some point. If I die tomorrow, everything will probably turn out ok. Damn, even if in it's folly, the whole human race died off, something better would evolve to replace us, and that species would have my blessing.

[Zensea]

39. of being homeless

I came pretty close.
I wouldn't say terrified though, just very worried.
If I voted based on how I was doing financially, I'd vote for Republicans because I've actually done better in the past five years than I did at any time in the preceding 20.
However, I don't vote based on that but on the big picture of civil liberties and how the rest of the country is doing.

[leftofthedial]

40. the right wing cabal

bent on destroying his presidency

the mindless, spittle-flecked hate spewing out of the right wing media machine

[Taxloss]

41. The millennium bug.

I know, I know. I'm sorry.

:banghead:

[FloridaPat]

42. Forget the Muslims. I'm afraid of repubs. Really. These people are nuts

[NOLADEM]

43. The end of it

[mcscajun]

44. Not a thing. I was finally making financial and personal progress.

Up until the 2000 dot-com bust, I had some very interesting plans indeed. Then came Bush, 9/11, the Enron fiasco, more offshoring, and the end of my 32-year career in NYC.

Now, I'm just one of thousands upon thousands of former IT workers doing the part-time hand-to-mouth dance.

[Subdivisions]

45. Overdosing on L-Tryptophan on Thanksgiving and...

missing the game.

[Eric J in MN]

47. That too many H1B Technology visas were being granted,

...and that it hurt American tech workers.

I wasn't "terrified" but that was a big concern for me.