[Twinkie]

The 80’s; me, too. We’d just escaped the four year nightmare of Jimmy Carter, with his little speech/lectures to us about how we should wear sweaters in the house to save using energy, the gas lines, the grating, endless Iranian (shades of Benghazi!) embassy hostage crisis brought on by disastrous Democrat foreign policy, and how we were a bunch of losers in a malaise - into the following Reagan Morning in America - where we were able and capable of doing worthwhile things - and we did! We had a President who inspired us and thought we were worthwhile!

[Nowhere Man]

The 80’s; me, too. We’d just escaped the four year nightmare of Jimmy Carter, with his little speech/lectures to us about how we should wear sweaters in the house to save using energy, the gas lines, the grating, endless Iranian (shades of Benghazi!) embassy hostage crisis brought on by disastrous Democrat foreign policy, and how we were a bunch of losers in a malaise - into the following Reagan Morning in America - where we were able and capable of doing worthwhile things - and we did! We had a President who inspired us and thought we were worthwhile!

At least Carter tried to get our hostages out, he failed but at least he tried unlike the O-Hole. He was a loser to be sure but compared to the O-Hole, he was a genius.

I think what gave me hope then, the 1980's really began was the U.S Hockey Team winning the Olympic Gold at Lake Placid. Yeah, we had 9 months to go until Ronald Reagan was elected but it gave us hope and optimism.

I don't feel that way today. Maybe if Romney was elected, I don't know, but that's up to the "alternate historians" now.