I don't think PC was a threadjack.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
What...you don't like Queen? They're British too, right. It was bad at the end of Carter's presidency too, and look how things improved after 8 years of The Gipper.
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Says exactly why he posted them here. And he has a very legitimate point, it has looked bad in this country in the past and we have always come through stronger. It's optimism I wish I still had, to be honest.
No, those pics show me that we should be looking at them going, "we DID that and WE can do better NOW."
Unfortunately, the pessimists in all of us and the first reactions are "threadjack" and that is part of the problem. We have been conditioned to look at inspirational things and say "that's the past". It may well be, the problems above are very real and we need a great leader to help us recover from first though.
Once we rebuild and get back to sanity (if it is possible.. but again we need a ruly great leader that inspires, McCain/Obama/Clinton are not exactly inspirational) we will accomplish all those and more. I just hope it is soon. I don't want to leave a fucked up nation that is borderline third world with no hope to me son and someday grandchildren. I want a country for them as great as the country that I, my parents and grandparents grew up in.