How come the news media never reminds us how bad it was when the Democrats had the White House and Congress?
The last time there was a Democratic controlled congress and a Democrat in the White House(77-81) we had double digit inflation, high unemployment, long gas lines and Iran Raided our embassy, took hostages and did not let them go until Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day on Jan. 20, 1981. Now of coarse you never hear about any of this today but these are irrefutable facts that are being ignored by the mainstream media.
I saw some gas lines on the news today, I was waiting for the comparison and it never happened. I’ll never forget Iran, I worked a lot of extra hours because of that fiasco.
"….doomed to repeat it…"
"Because it never was this bad before except for the Great Depression "
You weren’t around for the Jimmy and Rosanne show. were you?
Of course you are absolutely right in pointing this out. Stay with Fox and you’ll get your fair news!
Because it never was this bad before except for the Great Depression
Just stick to FOX NEWS and you’ll hear nothing but GOOD news.
Unilateral control of all branches of government by ANY political party leads to corruption and tyranny. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
That’s one of the many reasons I will never vote for Obama.
Moreover, this Democratically dominated Congress is the least prolific, lowest approved Congress in history. Single digit (8-9%) approval rating–one THIRD that of George W. Bush’s approval rating (27-30%).
Clinton inherited a good economy from Bush I. He reaped the rewards of Bush I’s policies and claimed credit for them. Just as Bush II reaped the disastrous homeland security policies of Clinton that helped lead to 9/11 shortly after he took office (like a bill introduced by Democrats and put into effect in July 2001–two months before 9/11–that banned pilots from carrying firearms, when they had already been carrying them for 40 years without incident).
no these are all lies! there were rainbows and cupcakes and big cudly polar bears..and hope and change! darnit!
why would they remind us of the recession we were in that was caused by another STUPID POINTLESS WAR- VIETNAM
you don’t expect them to rat out their good buddies, do you?
I guess you’re forgetting that Clinton was a good president and the economy was still good….until the Republicans got a hold of the White House…now look where it’s at.
You seem to be remembering what you want to remember without any help from the media. Why do you hate America?
They would be cutting their own throats. They are in bed with all the left-wing nuts and don’t care about those pesky facts. Better yet, Carter was President during the time you mention and Obama has been compared to Carter many times due to their similar stance on many economic and policy issues.
They also try to tag the Republicans with deregulating the financial industry, but it was Clinton that was instrumental in getting rid of Glass Steigel, the biggest regulatory policy in history, and his Sec of Treasury, Bob Rubin, was well-known for bailing out all sorts of crooked financial companies. Of course, the mainstream media doesn’t mention that either.
Because the media thrives on strife. So when there isn’t enough strife, they brew some up. So when the republican party isn’t bad enough for them, they have to make it sound worse.
Nothing you or I can do will change the Media’s stance. It’s going to take a major disaster to get people on the strait and narrow. But if the return from 9/11 has taught us anything, it’s that rival factions don’t unite for long.
It’s because we didn’t have a president that didn’t get us into a war, use the CIA as if it were the KGB, ignore congressional supeonas, andencourage former employees not to cooperate with investigations.
And if gas was 1.36 when Bush took office….
that’s TRIPLE digit inflation.
As if Richard Nixon’s experiments with Price Fixing had nothing to do with the mess that Carter that inherited???
Do your homework pal!
For reasons I’ll never understand, most media outlets are in the tank for the Democrats. Even though their ratings are in the tank along with the Dems, they keep beating that drum. It makes me think that their funding comes from sources other than Advertising….maybe George Soros knows.
Because in the last 8 years we have had 9/11, Katrina, Patriot act, and now the wall street crash. The most recent events are overshadowing your 77-81 arguments.
fluff news lies bout it i remember the clinton yrs fondly i had alot then nothin now and will vote accordinly
I’m sure they have just forgotten. Our wonderful mass media couldn’t possibly have an ulterior motive for not mentioning these little tidbits.
And in order to get through journalism school with acceptable grades, you have to become just as biased as your professors. And once in the business, you will be surrounded by like minded fellow workers. Non of which think it’s abnormal to be totally in lock step with the liberal agenda. Therefore, anyone in the center or right of center will be labeled a "neocon" (whatever that is) and their opinion is obviously not valid.
So your argument is that being lied into a war, having the economy take a dump, losing the respect of the world, cronyism, near fascism, unregulated banks, okaying torture, a history making deficit, an obstructionist Congress, and a politically run Justice Department are good things? We got all of these with a Republican controlled White House and Congress. The Democrat controlled one only lasted four years. The Republicans put their idiot in for eight years after the writing was on the wall after the first four.