[JRandomFreeper]

I cannot describe how sad it is to watch FR decline as it has in the past year or so, and especially in the last few months. And to see so many earnest freepers get booted for stating the obvious just makes me ill. It's like a ghost town around here now.

I've heard the exact same lament when Clinton was being re-elected because the GOP-E put up Dole.

Overstate things much?

/johnny

[Semper911]

Overstate? Hardly. That was the restrained version.

If you don't see a difference between Bill Clinton/1996 and Barack Obama/2012, you have some reading to do.

[volunbeer]

Johnny - you are and remain one of my favorite posters on this forum.

Here is the Clinton comparison off-hand

Debt is 3 times worse now - economy in much worse shape

Government is much larger now too - can’t afford promises or pensions

Clinton had Newt to keep him in line and he was pragmatic enough to often veer to the center. We have Boehner and Obama is already veering further left and he won’t care if he wins a second term.

Clinton did not have radicals throughout his administration and he worked with congress. As an aside, I really do miss Jocelyn Elders. Rush has never been as funny as he was when that gal was around.

The Progressive movement was still behind the scenes with Clinton. They are large and in-charge with Obama.

We are in deep doo-doo FRiend. I don’t believe he is overstating the seriousness of our situation at all. I was not either. One vote difference on the 2nd Amendment. One vote.

The Progressives in charge today make the Clinton administration look tame and I remember it well.

[GreyMountainReagan]

I've heard the exact same lament when Clinton was being re-elected because the GOP-E put up Dole.

Free-Republic was around in May of 1996?