(shivers) So true.
We couldn’t survive the kind of people who voted for Bill Clinton either because Clinton lowered the bar enough for Obama to look presidential most of the time during the campaign simply by not acting like Clinton. I can’t believe how many now seem to honestly believe that Slick Willie was a great president when in fact he was and as an ex still is one of the worst of all. American standards have gone down so far they are almost impossible to locate, people who think they are skinny now would have been considered fat, if not grossly fat, fifty years ago and people who now think they are pure of heart and have the strictest morals would have been classed as rogues and scoundrels fifty years ago. Truth has not changed but Americans certainly have.
A few minutes of reading the words of Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Franklin and others and reflecting not just on the wisdom conveyed but on the quality of the writing compared to what passes for writing now is enough to make me sick at heart to the point of misery.