Have you recovered from the Bush Presidency yet??

[kentuck]

Not just monetarily but physically? It was futile and physically depressing to watch the Bush Administration slowly tear down everything.

"Miss me yet?" Not fucking hardly!

People have deep scars from what the Bush Presidency inflicted upon this country. About the only people that still support the Bush Presidency are the "tea-baggers" and hard-right Republicans. But they have scars also, even if many of them refuse to show it.

Many folks are just now recovering from the trauma of seeing their Constitution shit upon. It is unfortunate that the Obama Adminstration has not done enough to help with this recovery. The psyche of America was deeply damaged in the last nine or ten years.

Only now, are people starting to recover from this assault upon our freedoms and liberties. That is why it is so insane of the "tea-baggers" to pretend they just woke up. Like Rip Van Winkle, they have no idea what happened the last ten years.

[Oregone]

1. Most people haven't even recovered from NAFTA yet

Though they might think so.

[BunkerHill24]

2. We have. But we are still in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[marybourg]

3. Yes! I no longer wince and rush to turn off the radio when I hear my

President speak. I can proudly say that in 8 years, I never heard a full sentence from what used to pass for a President. And I almost never saw more than a split second of his face. Now I delight in hearing our President (don't usually see him because no longer have tv)and have just about obliterated the bad memory from my mind.

[baldguy]

4. You don't recover from 30yrs of destructive Republican economic policies overnight.

Call me in 2100.

[Grand Taurean]

5. We will be dealing with his awful policies for many years to come.

[X_Digger]

6. Are we out of Afghanistan and Iraq yet?

Is the patriot act repealed yet? Have the tax cuts for the rich been repealed?

Then no, I haven't recovered.

[proud patriot]

7. Still recovering, but it's coming back

:-) thank you for asking

[El Supremo]

8. I will when...

we prosecute them and are out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Doesn't look like anytime soon.

[Cleita]

9. I still have a case of ptsd on account of him and his

crime syndicate.

[CC]

10. No

we haven't gotten rid of all his baggage yet.

[etherealtruth]

11. It will probably take generations to recover ...

From him and his evil cabal :(

[tnlurker]

12. No

I expect it to take at least eight years to recover for me. Maybe more.

[marmar]

13. Try Reagan.....(and I was in grade school at the time !!!)

nt

[walldude]

14. Recovering from the Constitution being shit upon?

Well, I was starting to recover. Right up until Obama publicly announced the legal creation of a CIA assassination squad that is allowed to kill US citizens without a trial, without any evidence, and without a chance for the accused to face his accusers.

One of the most basic tenants of FREEDOM is that the government can't just come to your house or to another country, or in your car, or while you are on the shitter, and shoot you on their word alone that you are guilty.

I'm sorry, but while Obama has done a number of good things, he has also "shit on the Constitution" with the same vigor as GWB did. Burned it and pissed on the ashes. But the economy is improving so who needs freedom.

[FiveGoodMen]

15. +1

[gratuitous]

16. We running budget surpluses again?

Constitution back up and in working order?

Out of two illegal occupations?

No?

Then put me down for "no."

[Solly Mack]

17. Ask the people he had tortured.

As for me...No.

[mdmc]

18. n'yet

[guyton]

19. Not even close ...

- not until they're prosecuted for the war-crime of invading Iraq
- not until they're prosecuted for the "quaint" crime of systematic torture
- not until they're prosecuted for unlawfully spying on US citizens
- not until they're prosecuted for their policy of extraordinary rendition
- not until the Justice department is purged of the ideologues they hired with their right-wing filter on civil service jobs
- not until all our government polices are reality-based
- not until the Supreme Court stops acting like a corporation's board-room

Not until the people of the US wake up and decide that maybe, just maybe, rational thought shouldn't be discouraged and that they really need to pay attention.

[madamesilverspurs]

20. During the '08 campaign season

I made some buttons with a picture of a cancer ribbon on them, and the words "I survived Bush too!"

I'm still surviving both.


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[FarLeftRage]

21. No, not yet...

Lost my job under boosh* and now been 18 months out of work with no end in sight.

[bluestateguy]

22. No

Give me about 10 more years.

[Naturyl]

23. No, not really.

It changed me. I became unable to tolerate Repukes for very long. That seems to be permanent.

[guyton]

29. Reagan

yeah, I'm old enough I remember Ronnie as governor. And I remember when the mentally ill in California were cared for in hospitals instead of leaving them to die on street corners.

[WillyT]

24. Worst... Hangover... Ever...

:hangover:

[Little Star]

25. The Bush presidency is over?

So many of his policies are still in place it's hard to tell. Hell no, I'm not recovered yet!

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. We should begin a new thread:

How much worse would we be today if Bush was able to swing a third term?

[FiveGoodMen]

28. Or we could start a thread: How much better do we NEED things to be

before the next Dubya gets the Oval Office and starts pulling us all off the cliff once again?

[branders seine]

27. Bingo on the earlier reply--I haven't covered from NAFTA yet,

or the Clinton acceleration of the concentration of wealth that made the bush debacle inevitable.

The tragedy is that Obama doesn't seem to have learned from it.