THis is just another humble opinion from another humble American. It took 12 years for Ronald Reagan and George Bush to bring back worldwide honor and respect back to the United States of America. The end of the Cold War, the bringing down of the Eastern European Wall, The reunification of Germany, The respect of our US Military Forces in a great Victory in SW Asia, and many many more great achievements. When the Democrats took over they rode in on the coats of a surging Economy, and artificially grew it by cutting military budgets, taking away many government jobs (well paying) from civilians supporting our military, and inviting all foreign markets into America especially via NAFTA, to drive prices of goods down, to make middle class Americans feel more wealthy, cutting interest rates to nothing and allowing a total saturation of consumer credit, on and on I could go. Now just 8 years later, our Military has been weakened and demoralized, strung all over the place in a total disorganized mess. The scandals of the Whitehouse, shame brought on our nation by Clinton, the mass exodus of the Best of the Best leaders in the Military because of the shameful dismantling of what took generations to build....all this has brought our great nation down again to levels of international respect only seen last in the 1970s, and now this fiasco with the national election... I am proud to be an American, I am proud to be a veteran of foriegn wars, but I am thoroughly disgusted with what I see is the Democratic Party's dismantling of that great era of achievement and all the Republicans who helped them along... IMHO