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SouthBayDem

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2. My earliest lived experience around politics was Clinton.

Reply to dflprincess (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 8, 2025, 11:00 PM

Aug 8

I was in kindergarten during the '96 election and remember my class having a mock "Clinton vs. Dole" poll, probably to teach counting. Bush Sr. was president about the first 2 years of my life, so due to age I have no real "memories" of that time.

Then a few years later was the whole sex scandal - but I never really knew the details until I got more interested in politics as a high schooler; Obama's election was early in my senior year.

So I too thought "the system worked". November 2016 changed all of that, November 2020 got me hopeful again, but then came November 2024.

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CBS Evening News 8/8/1974 - Nixon's impending resignation [View all] SouthBayDem Aug 8 OP

Those happy days when I thought the system worked dflprincess Aug 8 #1

My earliest lived experience around politics was Clinton. SouthBayDem Aug 8 #2

It's weird, now when I watch Dan Rather speaking in front of the White House, I can visualize *rump on the roof. Uncle Joe Aug 8 #3

I only knew Dan Rather with shorter hair. SouthBayDem Aug 8 #4

I believe longer hair was a little more in style then, Uncle Joe Aug 8 #5