What was the 2008 election like back then? I was 10 years old, too young to care at that time...

What was the 2008 election like back then? I was 10 years old, too young to care at that time. I do remember the recession though.

How were the Bush years and Obama's elections?

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The Bush years were great, he kept us safe, things were a lot happier back then and Americans were more united.

Obama only won because the economy tanked...although George Bush's actions saved things from getting a lot worse. McCain would have won if not for the economy and things would have been a lot better, the middle east would be safer, Europe wouldn't be being invaded like it is right now.

I started the End the Fed movement, which turned into the Tea Party, which made republican dicks bigger, but got fucked by "black president" of "change"

Anymore question, yellow nigger?

What was pol like during the 2008 election? Did they rooted for McCain?

McCain lost because of
>Sarah Palin
Bush was generally OK
>Should've occupied Iraq permanently
Europe's fate was determined decades ago.

I'll always remember this jock in my algebra class who said "If McCain doesn't win I'm skipping school tomorrow!"

He didn't skip school.

I had a life then. Ask Sup Forums

This is going to be the first election for most of Sup Forums

Huge anti-war election.
Election was dominated by the issue of the 2008 financial crisis, although the Iraq War was still a major issue.

Hillary ran against Obama. She spread pic related around the press. Things stayed civil at first but the primary got pretty vicious but Obama maintained a small but significant lead the entire time.

The primary was a fucking gongshow. Republicans for some reason run John McCain, a war veteran when the population was extremely war weary. John McCain decided to try to court female voters feeling left down by the choice of Barrack Obama by having Alaskan Sarah Palin as VP. She turned out to be a giant lolcow and a ditz. Tina Fey made a parody of her that was so good lines she made up for the parody like Sarah Palin saying "I can see russia from my house" went into the popular conciousness. She espoused family values and abstinence-only education and her daughter keeps getting knocked up out of marriage.

John McCain then decided to suspend his campaign to do what the country needed, have John McCain figure out a solution to the financial crisis, thus bringing political theater to the white house in an extremely tense time in economic history. Obama accepted. Bush asked Obama his opinion and he gave a well thought out speech about how we could handle the financial crisis. Mccain pulled out a piece of paper and said a paragraph of fluff about mutual cooperation. Bush in his biography said Obama looked more presidental at that moment and was baffled at McCains lack of preperation considering he fucking called the meeting. The meeting them turned into a partisan gongshow with both higher ups of both parties yelling at eachother, Bush decided he had enough and left the room.

McCain bungled his campaign hard in a time of public outrage against war and republicans. Democrats got a supermajority.

It was the lulziest election I've ever witnessed, up until this most recent one. 2012 and 2004 really weren't as good as 2008.

There was no Sup Forums in 08

2008 election was really optimistic. There was this feeling around the world that something amazing was going to happen.

A lot of people really believed Obama would bring hope and change. They seemed to think it was going to be this new era that got rid of all the dodgy wars and financial speculation.

We know better now.

Elections of the future will be a lot like what we've seen this year.

This is the first time since 2008 that there's been an election with two fresh candidates.

It's no coincidence that the two candidates that had the most optimism and support behind them were anti establishment. It's also no coincidence that both these candidates utilized the power of the internet in a way no other candidates were able to do.

The future of elections will be increasingly anti establishment and meme orientated.

The 2008 election will probably be the last normal election, because this one is really fucking weird in comparison. And the next one probably will be too.

there was a lot less twitter, i know that much,

>McCain
>Safer middle east

He's in the same line as Rubiobot (die for Israel goy), and Obongo.

Over here everyone was crazy because Obama was going to be the first black president and we told ourselves "The only way for to America to show that it is a mature country is to elect a black president now".

God damn looking back it's painful how shallow we were/I was in thinking that.

So 2007-2008 was the start of the meme candidate?

Thx for write up famm

it was a sham n mirror parlor tricks obama is satan half life 3 confirmed 2038

What's he thinking about, Sup Forums?

9/11 just saying.

Plus I'm just as safe now as I was then.

It only launched in 2007 and it was originally a place for celebrities to reach out to fans, not a SJW cesspit.

It took a while to become what it is now.

>i foreign country
>i try talkie not native language
>i bad i not no
>I Still ten and don't know things were better when bush came but clinty fucked all up for bush
>hillary make better cause of many jew money

Can't wait for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

>people born in 1998 can post here now

Getting away from this white she devil and into the arms of an asian qt

It was fun.

Wore this shirt until it was faded and useless. Tshirthell, I wonder if that site is still around....

"I need reaction folders with images besides the same oriental dude and white chick combo that I've been posting for months now tbqh senpai"

Bush fucked up really badly and everyone was liberal back in 2008. Of course there were a few exceptions, like myself who supported Ron Paul.

Gas the 90's

god damn i'm getting old

Cuck

Also not a virgin too :) she was a real qt too ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I remember the day of the election being at my friends house. I would have been 17 at the time and recently able to drive on my own.
I remember driving back to mine and hearing Obama giving a victory speech or something and feeling sad, that the world was going to get a lot worse.

It turned out even worse than I imagined.

You're still virgin that's like a Small C-cup probably B cup

Sorry bruh

>The Bush years were great, he kept us safe, things were a lot happier back then and Americans were more united.

This. Bush was the last neocon that could win an American election.

You live on the corner of the earth, your still 8 years away from the shit were in

Forgot to mention Ron Paul.

"Ron Paul Sup Forums" was a Sup Forums meme at that time making fun of ron paul supporters, rabid libertarians, and their desire to bring up ron paul and how great he was at every oppertunity, akin to bernie supporters. He clearly never had a chance so he just said whatever the fuck he wanted and proposed shutting down like half the departments in the government. All of these supporters were on leddit or Sup Forums, and were almost exclusively middle-upper class white male atheists for some reason.

Eventaully though he lost. From his ashes rose Rand Paul, the tea party who were giant lolcows, and the libertarian movement struggling this election largely because Trump seems like so much more of a logical protest vote.

I also forgot to bring up what people were saynig about optimism, yes the 2008 election was extremely optimistic and people were convinced Obama was going to completely change America. Socialized healthcare, ending the wars, ending the corruption of the big banks the republicans allowed, a new era of improved race relations, closing gitmo stopping terror.

They fucking gave Obama a nobel prize for no reason right after the election, and Obama accepted just as a fuck you to george W bush. The Nobel commitee now somewhat regrets that with the ongoing wars in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

You also can't overstate how much the country hated bush. He literally had the lowest approval rating of any president ever polled at 19% approve / 71% disapprove at one point. He got the country entangled in two wars with seemingly no end, his party lied their way into Iraq, the republicans actively interfered with efforts for example to stem some of the abusive payday loan shops and such that contributed to the recession, he took on a ton of debt after refusing to cut it when he could have back in 2000, and agreed to the bankers to have americans pay them thousands a head to bail them out.

Trump is going to win cause its going to piss so many people off.

Even if he fucks it up. Keks will be had, thanks to cucks.

Soo that's happening man?

Not so, toothpaste.

Australia is being quite heavily cucked and flooded with immigrants like the rest of the west. Feminism and social justice is rampant in our media which is totally left wing. There is no right wing media here at all.

Every western country is experiencing the same things right now.

Like guys, think of how disliked Obongo is

Bush polled at HALF of Obamas lowest approval rating around the time of the 2008 election. Poor McCain was fighting a hell of an uphill battle following that up. Peoples opinion of bush went up a bit after he left office.

He also had the highest approval rating of any leader ever polled after 9/11. Really makes you think...

Ooh, fuck for real?
I thought you guys didn't get censored as much.
My prayers are with you crocodile faggot.

What difference does it make ?

Yeah that old German proverb

"If u ain't hit a bitch with at least dubbuh C's, u ain't fukt shit bruh"

It isn't unlike this one. Flooded republican primaries. Hillary the cleared favored. Suddenly Oprah endorsed Obama and hollywood/blacks jumped on the bandwagon.
It was the first time where I saw how truly retarded the left is. Obama changed his stances on shit every other week and still, people believed him. There really wasn't anything the republicans can do after the dems controlled the meme machine.

Bush years was Americans being ignorant of what was truly happening. They put too much faith in the government and they ran with it.

Where is the source of this qt couple?

This might give him some knowledge about how faggots think instead of sjw homos

Hahah you know it faggot, ain't giving no the unless you got double D

Ah suck my fucking dick

>D

Fuck off carl cucklestein

>10 years old in 2008

fuck off underage b&

wait

is this real life?

Ron Paul Sup Forums

The 2000 election is history for me because I was too young to pay attention to it at the time.

It's been 8 years since bush went out, people don't really remember what the mood of the country was like during that time and the election. There are people that were 11 around that time that are 19 now, and 11 year olds tend to be apolitical. At this point when I discuss anything further back than the 2012 election I don't assume people know the details of it. Sup Forums didn't exist yet. People still hated atheists back then and there were christcucks a plenty, but neither fedora nor cuck were memes yet. The site was dominated by left-wing views on social issues, and socialist or libertarian views on economic issues. The site at the time was literally flooded with moralfaggotry that's really hard to conceive of these days, like 2008 was probably the time in 4chans history it acted the most retarded. People were talking about how Sup Forums was going to change the world by taking to the street wearing guy fawkes masks and protesting scientology. People were either backing Obummer or Ron Paul, and people were mostly Fanatical about Ron Paul. The right was strongly associated with Jesus freaks at the time, much more than it is today, the right were generally seen as lulzkillers that wanted to censor the internet and were completely out of touch. Stewart and especially Colbert seemed internet savvy and referenced Wikipedia and memes like I Herd U Liek Mudkips. Internet news was still much less of a thing at this point and cable news was a much bigger deal, fox news was thus symbolic of the right. I cannot emphasize how fucking funny this video by fox news about Sup Forums is.

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Like fuck I'm a goddamned oldfag on this site now, those memes about once you're here you'll never leave came true. I'm wasting my life away discussing foreign politics that don't matter at all on a Mongolian Animal Husbandry forum.

Uhhh 9/11 katrina fema deth camps and mostly alot of other really bad shit, safe my ass. TRUMP will change that though.

A bunch of gibs me dats and white guilt faggots

>The Bush years were great, he kept us safe, things were a lot happier back then and Americans were more united.

9/11. Economy didn't go full retard until the end of Bush's second term, so Americans weren't financially hurting or butthurt that a half-black guy was president.

Obama only won because the economy tanked...although George Bush's actions saved things from getting a lot worse.

Oh, so Bush bailing out the bankers was ok, but really it's Obama's fault we have all this debt.

McCain would have won if not for the economy and things would have been a lot better, the middle east would be safer

You should really go and seek professional mental health counseling. McCain would have turned the Middle East into a clusterfuck of epic proportions, Iran would either be destabilized and another ISIS hangout or would have accelerated their nuclear program to fend off the US invasion.

>recession
You act like it's over. Before all this shit my day would walk around with 1500 in cash everywhere he went. He has a buisness in construction.

Bush dindu nuttin wrong when it came to Katrina, pretty much all the failures were at a state level, but people thought he did, and that was bad enough.

Saying to disgraced FEMA Chief Michael Brown "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," haunted him too.

Leftists on bush after Katrina

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Fuck off to reddit you faggot, your opinion doesn't matter.
You fail at life, and you will fail at passing off genes you goddamn cuck.

nigger, people born in 2004 post here

Its recession for people without a job, only people with the time and no money to complain.

OHMERGAHD! You should vote for obama because it's time for change, the president is going to be black!

Say it with me!

Black President!
Black President!
Black President!
Black President!
Black President!

Also Bush sucks

>Obama only won because the economy tanked...although George Bush's actions saved things from getting a lot worse.

Are you retarded the dude got involved in two wars with no end in sight in the leadup to the recession, and cut taxes when the country was paying off the debt and now the country has way too much debt and no clear plan to ever pay it off. The country long before the crash happened had loans being given out to people with no incomes, and payday loan shops giving credit to people with absolutely shit credit popped up everywhere and he did nothing to stop the problem and really obstructed doing something about the problem.

Like I seriously wonder what the world would be like, if gore was president, he increased the ground forces of the US like he wanted to, he went into afghanistan with way more troops and possibly could have caught Osama in Tora Bora back in 2001, he wouldn't take a side trip to Iraq, there would be no ISIS spawning out of Iraq forcing America to pay more money it could have spent paying off the debt, it would mean no refugees to pay for instead of paying off the debt, there might have been enough troops to decisively end afghanistan.

Like some of the things suggested like "Why don't we just let the banks go broke" were said by people that don't really understand what that means, and Bushes approach to the bailouts I think was economically sound. But god no, that man made the US recession so much worse, like the culmination of his domestic policy and foreign policy mismanagement was the 2008 recession. All the "economic growth" he created instead of paying debts got wiped out, and is still wiped out.

People weren't taking Obama seriously
Clinton was being, well Clinton
The republicans were being themselves
ISIS were the bitches of the other groups

Then the economy crashed

Everybody hated the republicans for being brain dead morons
People still hated Clinton
Obama was the only choice people had
People were sick of Iraq and ready to leave

The Bush years were decent if you worked in private sector, problem was Bush was a globalist and sold our country out to others. 9/11 was handled well considering what happened, people who remember 9/11 don't really feel anything anymore compared to what they felt that day.
Iraq was a mistake
Bush had a bad habit of saying stupid shit, made the rest of us look dumb. We had to get our reputation back

The recession wouldn't have been that bad had he not gotten rid of our manufacturing base. Those jobs he let go to China and India could have helped the economy by keeping young millennials in the work force and keeping the money circulating.

How I would sum up the bush years is that after years of economic growth in the clinton years, the debt finally falling, relative peace, America was suddenly attacked by Terrorists. The world was shocked, heartbroken, outraged, and united behind America to go after the people responsible. America was in late 2001 one of the most popular and prosperous countries in the world.

Then Bush fucked everything up.

So people elected Obongo, who also fucked everything up.

So now Sup Forums is thinking, why not give Donald Trump a chance?

Pre 9/11
>clinton was bush sr 2.0 who continues post-Cold War policies
>bush jr was going to be clinton 2.0

Post 9/11
>bush jr goes neocon and everything goes downhill
>obama is bush jr 2.0 as he continues his policies

CURRENT YEAR
>clinton is bush jr 3.0
>trump is bush jr pre-9/11 which is clinton 2.0

That's American presidential policies in a nutshell

I am disappointed that Trump with the republicans. The republicans should never be reelected after the fuck ups they did in the 2000's. They are traitors to our country, spineless, the cause of everything we see now politically and culturally, and couldn't run a lemonade stand if their lives depended on it.

I really want Trump to form his own party and get away from the cucks in the republican party

wtf are you spewing bullshit down this kids throat for

Who keeps posting this race mixing shit?

>months

try years

Fuck off Riley

during the 2008 election Sup Forums was involved in the hack of sarah palains email. the btard who got into her email was a tenseness (i think) democrat congressman son, her "i forgot my password" was "where did you meet your husband?" he just copied the name of her highschool from her wikipedia page, changed it to popcorn, and then posted it on b. she had a retarded daughter in real life, who was the subject of a lot of the malicious emails which where sent from her inbox to, among others, the senator from alaska who was also a meme at the time for being the guy who said "the internet is a series of tubes".

also during the 2008 election and leading up to it, on the news board was called /n/ and Julian assange was a regular poster, or at least someone claiming to be him, well before brad manning leaked the collateral murder video.

at this point in time, /N/ as the news board was called was actually ruled by prettier serious discussion and had a lot of international posters.

moot shut this board down after a series of raids on credit card companies to punish them for freezing Julian assanges credit card. at this point most of the board moved to Sup Forums and that when /news/ becamee seen across fourchan as really right wing. thats when th int mods became super trigger happy about antisemitism and a lot of the stormfaggotry that developed on Sup Forums in general i feel like started as a backlash to that, but this is when it started seeming a lot more serious and fixxated on one group.

>Katrina

9-11 truthers are controlled op to prevent people from reading up on republican controlled fema deliberate breaking the levy

>People who were 10 years old when Obama was elected can now post here without breaking the rules

Bush years sucked, but things weren't completely fucked yet, people still had a bit of hope and there were still shreds of post-WWII prosperity.
Tons of people thought Obama was somehow anti-establishment and would fix everything, and blindly voted for him thinking it would make a difference. Kind of similar to today.
2008-now just feels like one long, blurred, fucked up nightmare. Nothing from that year onward even feels real to me.

>Riley is back
>still a permavirgin
>still autistic and lonely
spamming in every single thread
kill yourself.

>He fell for the Obama meme

Some of us were smarter than that.

If that recession had not happened things would be par the course

Millennials would be on their way to adulthood, Isis wouldn't matter, SJW/BLM/Islam wouldn't be a thing but crazy liberal conspiracies

Life would be much different

>What was the 2008 election like back then? I was 10 years old

Fucking christ I hate getting older.

>Ignoring all the signs for 9/11
>Patriot Act

The media thought obongo was the next jesus.

>Good!This exactly what we need.

>Oh, so Bush bailing out the bankers was ok, but really it's Obama's fault we have all this debt.

This was Obama you fucking retarded liberal. He LITERALLY bought worthless billions of GM and AIG stock with taxpayers' money to save them from going shit under (they kind of did anyway).

The best part? He sold them AT A LOST after they started to recover. Free fucking money, from hard working Americans, to wall street, through that lost transaction. All thanks to your king nigger president.

Liberals are the last ones who should talk when it comes to economics and stocks.

I agree. Pre-2008, the idea of the West actually declining and destroying itself was almost laughable. If you had told me in 2006 what 2016 would be like, I would have never believed it. Makes me wonder what kind of horrors we're in for in the 2020s.

Either that or they hated the cuckservatives with a passion

People can put up with a lot, but if you mess with their money they will go after you

>Tons of people thought Obama was somehow anti-establishment and would fix everything, and blindly voted for him thinking it would make a difference. Kind of similar to today.

No, there is a difference. While the MSM (puppets of the establishment) propped up Obama as some new messiah that would save America, they have been absolutely shitting on Trump, every day, every hour, for the last 300+ days.

That alone should tell you who the real change would be.

They haven't though. You can regularly see media praising him as well. Actual anti-establishment candidates never make it anywhere near the presidency and are outright ignored by the media (Ron Paul).

>People can put up with a lot, but if you mess with their money they will go after you

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yga7TlsA-1A


Except the democraps were the driving force behind the housing crisis that started the collapse. Obongo himself made tens of thousands as a lawyer forcing banks to loan to people who couldn't pay them back.

Libshits are so low info.

You don't remember the recession.

In 2008 anyone with a pulse and a D next to their name was going to win that election. There was about a week in the summer right after the convention when McCain lead Osama, right after he announced Palin as his choice for VP. (She was an AMAZING choice, BtW). That's when the liberal media absolutely assassinated her. Funny how the people who cry the most about misogyny are the most misogynist of all.

Meanwhile, the interesting bit was the primary, where hildebeest was absolutely destroyed by Osama. It was a lot like this year's primary, where the Clintholes expected their superdelegates and corruption to just win for them. But something funny happened. The superdelegates began to abandon Clinton in favor of Osama. She was furious. That's why she's back this time with a vengeance. That's why this time she's more criminal than she ever was. She won't lose again, and she doesn't care who she has to kill to do it.

>You can regularly see media praising him as well.


What alternative universe are you from?

Just on RCP I see articles praising him, mixed in with anti-Trump ones.

>tfw was 18 and voted for Mc cain because my mom told me

I had to Google "RCP" because it's located somewhere in the asshole of the internet.


Not MSM.

>The Bush years were great, he kept us safe
right up to the point where 2 jumbo jets flew into the world trade center... and the 2001 anthrax attacks... or the 2003 beltway sniper attacks... or the 2003 ohio sniper attacks... got most of the world knee deep into afghanistan and we're still not out of that permanent shithole. Russians learned the hard way and so did the rest of us now. And what did it change? Jack. Only difference is now we have social networking terrorists instead of ignorant goat herders.

on Sup Forums there were a lot of "we president now" type jokes. Mostly they did not give any fucks. Also there were a lot of shoops of the change poster. Palin was universally declared a milf and many many shoops were produced of her in that context. McCain I can't really recall any opinion on him one way or another. He'd have made a great president though IMO. People jacked themselves off to Obama way too much back then. He's fine but just doesn't have anything special to distinguish himself.

It was fucking retarded.
Hillary tried every dirty trick to get obongo out of the race and then cried on TV because that intern sucked off her husband. He pretty much carried her and I had a feeling that most gave her support, because of him.
When Hillary lost the nomination obongo wasn't all of a sudden a unexperienced nonamerican muslim anymore (things her campaign sometimes brought up) and she became his VP. No integrity. She would have held jennifers had and swapped cum with her if it gave her a bit if power.

The world loved obongo because of his speeches. He wanted to do so much and change americas foreign policy and got the noble peace price for his rhetoric.
Seconds later he started his drones. It was hilarious.

McCain was boring, but he had class. Obongos team had the luxury to focus on palin who seemed brain dead.

When he won everyone was euphoric as if the world would change forever.

The amount of anti-Trump articles/newscasts vastly outnumbers the amount of pro-Trump posts.

The media aren't stupid, you know. If they went full 100% anti-Trump, even the dumbest nigger would catch on to their shit. So, they throw out some bones here and there to remain """unbiased""" in the public eye. Not really working too well, but I still think they can pull it through just enough till November, which is all they need it.

I remember my jr. year english teacher had a whole class on Obama and a picture of him on the wall. It still makes me rage to this day

>The world loved obongo because of his speeches

The world loved him because he was black. End of story. That's how he got his Nobel prize for doing absolutely fucking nothing.

Sorry, I was talking about RealClearPolitics.

If you say so. Personally I have no hope of things ever getting better no matter who is in office. If "They" can pull off false flag attacks, orchestrate wars, flood countries with Third World invaders, control all the world's banks, mass mind control entire countries and have all manner of exotic technology created that nobody knows about, controlling 2 presidential candidates is nothing to them.

His speeches are idiotic platitudes aimed at low info retards. At the beginning of his presidency he couldn't keep himself from using personal pronouns. He was a ridiculous narcissist.