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Kids being taught America is exceptional.

NOT being called a racist because I have a difference of opinion.

Not Waking Up Thinking,”What the Hell Will The President Do Today?”

Gassing up and going on a day trip without gas being the biggest expense.

Not having a first lady who dresses like she robbed a thrift store.

A first lady who smiles. And means it.

Optimism!!!!

The ability to turn down a job because there were other opportunities.

Having everyone saying The Pledge Of Allegiance – and meaning it.

Turning on the tube and never seeing Obama’s mug.

Not wondering why I’m the only one on my street who proudly displays Old Glory off of my porch every day of the year.

Living in a country where the God of Israel is welcome and respected at all times.

When government didn’t try to be my daddy

Having a president that loves America, like Ronald Reagan.

Not constantly worrying about a goverment that seem to be determined to destroy my business.

Laws actually mattered

Having a country with secure borders, not living in fear of my neighbors.

Waking up in the morning without a knot in my stomach.

January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989

Living in a country without the judgement of God hanging over our heads, like the sword of Damocles

My money was considered mine and not the government’s

Knowing that, no matter what, the Constitution was inviolable.

Never hearing the terms: political correctnesss, global warming, climate change, fair share, think out of the box, boob belt, and especially President Barack Hussein Obama.

Being able to tell your kids that if they worked hard, their efforts would be rewarded.

Not worrying about waking up one day and being owned by China.

@MaryJane…. thumbs up indeed….

Living in a time when you knew the POTUS would never…NEVER.. “BOW” to any foreign leader.

What I Miss About America is being able to walk around and not step in a pile of Hope and Change

The days when 90% of Congress wasn’t made up of money grubbing snakes that could give a damn about the will of the people.

I miss an American space program that used American Space vehicles, not Russian ones.

The Stars and Stripes

God was respected and government didn’t try to be a God.

Patriotism

Turning on the tv and not being bombarded with filth, sleaze, and violence.

No one was proud to be labeled a communist

I miss the America that had freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Living in a country where no one would ever vote for a communist.

I miss the America that considered 1/2 a trillion dollar deficit to be extreme.

the confidential assurance that this country holds the American Dream as a standard to the rest of the world.

Amen to everything that Chalupa has said. I miss the freedom to do what I want to do without the govt. telling me what I can and can’t do.

What I Miss About America is a First Lady that doesn’t look like she just stepped out of a George Lucas movie.

I miss the America that didn’t outlaw my private Health Insurance coverage.

I miss the America where kids could have Lemonade stands without permits.

REAL American movie stars, not these liberal EMBARRASSMENTS that we are left with!

Sensible black leaders.

Not wondering if the president had allegiance to anywhere (or anyone) other than the USA.

An Obamaless America! I think I miss that most of all…

I miss the America that actually let our soldiers shoot the bad guys.

Dating a woman without having to ask for a blood test and proof of female birth.

Confidence in the president actually BEING an American citizen.

Specifics? OK, why not.
Criminals treated like criminals. Fewer repeat offenders. Dirtbags having second thoughts.
And that segues into.
Children allowed to roam without fear. Doors unlocked. Old people unafraid.
And that ties into.
Neighbors unafraid to
Discipline the unruly. Protect the weak. Ostracize the undesirables.
Which in turn allows
Community gatherings: BBQ’s Holiday celebrations, block parties. All without fear of gunfire, gangs,
and legal intervention.
And that reminds me of an America without an overabundance of.
Trial lawyers and Tort abuse. That takes away personal responsibility, and individualism.
Yep. That’s what I miss about America.
The community oriented individuals that made up the neighborhoods. The neighborhoods that made up America.
Pretty much, Everything.

I miss the America that openly backed Israel.

Worrying that soldiers won’t engage the enemy if they’re gorgeous.

I could tell a joke and not have my motives questioned.

Not having to worry about walking my dog in front of the White House.

Being able to actually understand the guy behind the store counter or on the telephone help line.

I miss the America that had politicians that actually read the bills before they passed them.

Joe Mccarthy

1984 as fiction?
Add “Atlas Shrugged” to that book list.

I miss the America that didn’t force me to buy something.

I miss the America that didn’t arm drug dealers.

Not knowing or caring who Saul Alinsky, Francis Fox Piven, Frank Marshall Davis, George Soros, George Maynard Keynes were.

Having a first lady that doesn’t have fifty assistants, including three for daily hair removal.

Going to my company’s manufacturing floor was a casual walk down the hallway, not halfway around the world.

When undocumented workers were called illegal aliens

I miss regular employment.

I miss the America that didn’t expect the President to pay their mortgage and put gas in their car.

The days when felons were in prison, not the White House guest book.

When the President was someone who was respected

I miss the America that didn’t ask me to press 1 for english.

Having a president that could throw a 60 mph strike in men’s pants.

I miss the America that had a President that knew how many states where in it.

I miss the America that didn’t join Mexico in suing a State.

The days when heterosexual sex was the worst thing that happened in the Oval Office.

I miss when hand ups were more respected than hand outs

When Moms and Dads lived together

I miss when I could drink a 16oz, or larger, drink without committing a crime

When the idea of Al Sharpton at the White House Prayer Breakfast was a bad joke

The days when a dirtbag that murdered 13 service men and women on American soil would be taken out and hanged the same day.

The days when the president was a true leader, not a celebrity.

What I miss most is the optimism! Remember after 9-11 there was that period where everyone was just waiting for the next horrible thing to happen? Well, it feels like that all the time now. It feels like everyone is just waiting around for Obama to continue on his path of destruction. Like today- Obama illegally gutted welfare reform- by executive order. But nothing ever happens to him. He is allowed to engage in illegal/despotic acts and nothing is done. So, I look at the houses foreclosed on, the lots not sold, the businesses closed, and I miss the optimism, that great American optimism that we are all together and working towards the goal of making America better by our own personal contributions. Obama and his cronies are like the raptors from Jurassic Park- hunting the citizens of this country down. I hope we are able to stop them.

I miss when we were respected as a nation, held in awe because of our military, cried out to when there was a crisis, marvelled at for our economic and technological achievements.

I miss when I could make any remark about anyone and not fear a lawsuit.

I miss when we could look at each other and acknowledge we were Americans first.

I miss when Presidents actually carried out responsibilities.

I miss when I didn’t have to speak a foreign language to be understood within my own country.

The days when the Constitution was a sacred document in Washington and there was a true separation of powers.

The days in the 1800′s when there was no federal income tax.

I miss when first ladies exhibited class and didn’t act like know-it-all attention whores.

i miss drive in movie theatres with consession stand hotdogs and smuggling friends in the trunk

i miss its’ soul

When you could wave an American Flag without being considered a racist

The days when I didn’t have to worry about getting old and ending up in Obamacare hell.

When we didn’t have to pretend that Muslims have made important world contributions

i miss the abundance of real men and true ladies
not players and hos

i miss modesty

I miss the days when a president didn’t beg me to give up birthday or wedding gifts and donate to his campaign.

What a fucking embarrassment.

The days when California was loved for it’s natural beauty and not hated for it’s liberal overlords and enablers.

When a nanny was someone you hired. Not who you voted for.

What I miss about America is:
- knowing my president would uphold the Constitution he swore to uphold
- optimism about the future of our country and the sense that we could fix any problem and correct any mistake that we make
- knowing that it is a land of laws instead of a land of scheming cronies
- elected statesmen / stateswomen who put the interests of their country first and would genuinely work on solving problems instead of playing political one-upsmanship

I miss when presidents had private executive experience BEFORE he was elected to office.

When the first lady didn’t appear in Maxim magazine as one of the “hottest women on the planet”, causing me to throw a little in my mouth

I miss the America where the dollar wasn’t laughed at.

What I miss about America is having a president who actually tried to govern and lead instead of being a full-time campaigner for 4 years.

I miss the America where other world leaders bowed to the President.

The days when Congress would read bills before they passed them.

I miss the America where the president didn’t pimp himself out 3 dollars at a time for the chance to eat waffles with him

When fisting resulted in an easy out to first.

What I miss about America is national leaders in Congress who believed in seperation of powers and would never let the president get away with power grabs at their expense, even if he was of their political party.

When Sandusky was just another town in Ohio.

Where shame existed.

I miss the America when Joe Biden was simply the dumbest man in the senate.

I miss the America where cowboys rode horses, not each other.

When NASA reached for the stars. Not the crescent moon.

When Michigan was home to Lions and Tigers. Not goats and camels.

I miss the time when people had control over those they voted into office.

When the three R’s in our schools didn’t stand for Recruit, Ridicule and Ruination.

When Church bells, were the most beautiful sound you heard.

What I miss about America is having a president who understood what capitalism and free enterprise are and actually understood that they are inseperable from a free, democratic people.

When a corpseman worked in a funeral parlor.

What I miss about America is the time when a billion dollars was a lot of money.

Good manners and common decency. I miss those. Junior high bullies abusing a 68-year lady bus monitor shouldn’t exist in America.

When the government didn’t butt in and demand that sodomy and lewd behavior be recognized as Holy Matrimony.

Boy am I late to this. I know all the good ones aren’t taken, but y’all have done a remarkable job listing how things have shifted, so I’m going to offer a comment outside the contest.

I like Chalupa’s remark up thread: “The days when a dirtbag that murdered 13 service men and women on American soil would be taken out and hanged the same day.”

To me, it embodies so much of the sideways shifts reflected in the culture, the legal system and the military.

- that there would even be an officer of ME descent whose extremist views were reported and ignored due to ‘cultural senthitivities’ (to me a feminization of what is supposed to be our warrior/defenders). I can’t imagine a Japanese shrink during WWII being anywhere near a position of authority in our military while basically saying ‘Hey, those State Shintoists have got it going on’.

- that he was not summarily hanged.

- that the media began pissing themselves doing the enlightened apologist hand-wringing dance.

- that he’s sitting, fully bearded, housed and fed, playing the system, all maintained at taxpayer expense because the bastard is still alive.

- that there are American citizens so brain-dead that think he should be found innocent either because his view are ‘culturally correct’ for him and hey! Who are we to judge?, or not guilty by reason of mental defect, whereupon he would be housed, fed and treated at taxpayer expense.

“Thinking a tomato is not a fruit is wrong. Thinking a tomato is a suspension bridge is very wrong.”

We are squarely in suspension bridge territory in so many ways.

The days when there was an attempt to actually keep communists out of Hollywood.

The days when my dad’s prediction that Christians would one day be persecuted in the US seemed a little quaint

The days when a grown man would get his nose splattered across his face for publically calling the mother of six children a c#nt

When presidents had military experience, not legal experience.

When the U.S. Olympic team proudly wore uniforms that were Made in Ameria.

The days where the religion that founded America gets at least the same fair shake as the religion that mass murders Americans

These comments are so good, we need to send them to the Romney camp. Awesome.

The days when the Federal Government would sue you for NOT enforcing federal laws

The days when vandals, violent rioters and public defecating deadbeats would be sternly criticized by the president and members of Congress, not coddled.

The days when the only crescent moons you would find in America were on it’s outhouses.

The days when getting your ass handed to you in oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court meant you lost the case

Where 1984 was considered a work of fiction and not a blueprint for success

Where 1984 was considered a work of fiction and the Constitution of the United States wasn’t

When I could smoke a cigarette without some nanny do gooder coming up to me to tell me about my health!

When men didn’t wear their pants below their butts

When we were taught to fight back and not be a victim

When real movie stars were taller than 5’2″ and were not real life sissies!

The days when the life expectancy of a traitor who had just shot 13 of his fellow American soldiers could be measured in nanoseconds

When I could exhibit my patriotism by waving flags, saying the Pledge, singing God Bless America, and not being placed on a right-wing terrorist watchlist by Homeland Security.

Relatively cheap energy.

People being reserved about their sexual proclivities.

Enjoying patriotic holidays and events without compulsory counterpoints, protests, and reeducation.

When the majority of new jobs created weren’t government jobs.

When a military vet could display an American flag ANYWHERE HE DAMN WELL CHOSE TO!

I miss the America when a 12 year old thought a blackberry was fun to pick and eat.

I miss the American light bulbs that don’t reguire a Haz-Mat suit to clean ip if broken.

I miss when a rainbow was a beautiful end to a summer rain and not a group of almost naked men spanking each other in public.

I miss the America where a citizen could build a house on their own property without approval from the EPA.

I woke up this morning to find that there was a marathon contest going on. Great comments everybody.

Reading through these is like looking through an old photo album and reminiscing about more simpler and innocent days.

I miss the innocence.

I miss the days when chewing gum and talking during class were considered the worst offenses by school children.

I miss the days when parents believed the teacher when their kid was punished for acting up.

I miss when competition made you a better person.

I miss the America where defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman wasn’t considered radical hate speech.

1. I miss never having to worry that my president would bow to a Saudi.

2. I miss accusing a Democrat of being a Marxist without being called a racist.

3. I miss ‘socialist’ not being a pejorative.

4. I miss the media telling the truth at least once a month.

5. I miss no longer being able to tell young people that their lives will get better as they get older.

6. I miss my 100 watt light bulbs.

7. I miss not having to check the cast of every movie to see if I have to boycott it because it stars some moronic Leftist.

8. I miss the White House being treated with respect, not a gym, a playground, or a hangout for militant gays.

9. I miss believing that if the shit hits the fan, America has Israel’s back.

10. I miss the days when our enemies feared us, instead of laugh at us behind our backs.

11. I miss having a FLOTUS who didn’t berate us every chance she gets.

12. I miss when green meant money and not the environment.

13. I miss the days when a president could still be impeached.

14. I miss the bust of Winston Churchill.

15. I miss when terrorists were considered the bad guys and we the good guys.

16. I miss the days when the president of the United States didn’t leave out the word ‘Creator’ when quoting from the Declaration of Independence.

17. I miss that there is no longer any shame in being on food stamps.

18. I miss believing that Supreme Court Justices love and understand the Constitution better than I do.

19. I miss when high unemployment was anything over 5%.

20. I miss not having to compile lists like this.