Barone: Nov Elections Could Be Replay of 1966 Midterms

townhall.com ^ | August 5, 2010 | Michael Barone

[Iam1ru1-2]

I hope you will find help for your drug addiction, because no sane person would rattle on with nonsense such as you have done.....and don’t bother replying....it will only be more gibberish!!!!!

[Logic n' Reason]

Regulator: It's a different country, with different people. Utterly.

Seems some folks here don't respect opinions and have a hard time with stated facts. Instead of refuting, they attack - perhaps that takes the place of thinking in their minds??

At any rate, I was 19 years old in 1966 - and was spending my time sittin' in a very hot and humid climate in someplace called "SouthEast Asia" (hell, I didn't even know that Asia HAD a "southeast"!!).

To compare the America of that time to the nation today is at the very best fraught with peril. Just for fun, some here might find it interesting to "google" population breakdown, US, 1960 thru present...just to take a look at the demographics.

I dare say that the Vietnamese population in the US in '66 was miniscule compared to today....not to mention "spanish-americans" and illegal aliens.

Nope...while the name was the same....the country was very very different....and those differences are mirrored in the current state of social welfare and the makeup and attitude of the present political scene.

[Regulator]

You got the point.

To compare the America of that time to the nation today is at the very best fraught with peril

My point exactly. We remember; a lot of people here...don't. You have to be 50+.

[Logic n' Reason]

You have to be 50+.

50++ in fact....and I am of two minds about it.

I can still remember vividly my earlier years and cannot comprehend the passage of so much time....and I long for it.

However, there is some intense pride within me that says, "I made it"....and many didn't.

Of coure, I keep this second mindset mostly to myself. One cannot afford to get much above the radar....God has good aim!