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A different sort of age quiz
Jul. 10th, 2008 11:25 amI'm looking at this, dark whimsey, if you will, and I was wondering.
I'm thinking of the fact that Bush has been in office 8 years---and what that means to me, versus a freshman in college.
How old were you when Bush was first elected? Where were you in school? Were you voting at that time? If you were not of voting age, what did you think?
And the same question regarding Clinton--how old, where were you, and where did that election leave you?
Edit, Update: I first posted this yesterday, then removed it, for being too vague, too unfocused.
I guess I was remembering my feelings, as well as mental musings, of the political ages that have passed since I was too young to vote. My changing awareness of my own political views, as a member of a somewhat conservative family**, and as a person becoming more aware of the adult society/nation and its divides.
I was in junior high in Orange County when Nixon when Nixon resigned.
When this occurred, it was a shock--for my age, for the sheltered way I had been raised, for conservative Orange County, and for the nation.
But really, since then, nothing a president has done with a country has shocked us.
But NOW feels like the first time since Nixon that a wide range of people finally said, "Hell no, no more".
Hmm...you know, even now---we've said "No More"---but that has done nothing.
We are just waiting for his time to run out.
fyi--
I had just turned 17 and was enrolled in community college when Carter was elected.
I was 21 when Reagan was inaugurated, and the hostage release was announced. No, neither myself nor my 57 year old mom were happy with that election.
**Dad's family was staunch Republican. Mom was Democrat, but registered as Republican, because--well, she was married and married people voted the same.
Mom was raised, however in an atheist socialist union-organizing family back east.
I'm thinking of the fact that Bush has been in office 8 years---and what that means to me, versus a freshman in college.
How old were you when Bush was first elected? Where were you in school? Were you voting at that time? If you were not of voting age, what did you think?
And the same question regarding Clinton--how old, where were you, and where did that election leave you?
Edit, Update: I first posted this yesterday, then removed it, for being too vague, too unfocused.
I guess I was remembering my feelings, as well as mental musings, of the political ages that have passed since I was too young to vote. My changing awareness of my own political views, as a member of a somewhat conservative family**, and as a person becoming more aware of the adult society/nation and its divides.
I was in junior high in Orange County when Nixon when Nixon resigned.
When this occurred, it was a shock--for my age, for the sheltered way I had been raised, for conservative Orange County, and for the nation.
But really, since then, nothing a president has done with a country has shocked us.
But NOW feels like the first time since Nixon that a wide range of people finally said, "Hell no, no more".
Hmm...you know, even now---we've said "No More"---but that has done nothing.
We are just waiting for his time to run out.
fyi--
I had just turned 17 and was enrolled in community college when Carter was elected.
I was 21 when Reagan was inaugurated, and the hostage release was announced. No, neither myself nor my 57 year old mom were happy with that election.
**Dad's family was staunch Republican. Mom was Democrat, but registered as Republican, because--well, she was married and married people voted the same.
Mom was raised, however in an atheist socialist union-organizing family back east.
