I told you I was a moderate.

While on twitter today, I realized just exactly how old I am and how strange I am to most people. We started comparing Presidents, and telling how many and which President we liked it, and  was easy to see by the response what party each person belonged to. But for me, I straddled the line.

Now, I'm fairly old, and I've been alive for 11 Presidents, and I had Obama as my #3 best President during my lifetime. My favorite: JFK. He pushed the country into space, which pushed children into the fields of math and science. It was during his administration that the country surged ahead in those areas, and our school systems lead the world. He pushed for civil rights, and averted war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. All in less than 3 years, and nothing he did seemed ultra liberal or in any way conservative. My second favorite President: George H. Bush. One of two Presidents I've personally met, he kicked Saddam out of Kuwait by force, but then went along with other world leaders in going no farther. He got a diplomatic agreement with most of the world to kick Saddam out of Kuwait, and when that was done, the mission was done. Troops came home, or back to units they came from. This is something neither his son or Obama has been able to do. He also put the country above his party, the GOP, when he saw where the deficit was headed and raised taxes. It cost him a second term, and as such is something that will never happen during a time of divided government again. Then I have Obama, who has brought the country back from the brink of a depression, killed bin Laden, and got health care for all Americans. This while the GOP has refused to work with him in any way.

So my top 3 Presidents during my lifetime are 2 Democrats and one Republican, a party that died a few years back. But I still think this shows me to be a moderate thinking man. Unfortunately, that also makes me just about extinct in the political field now, and that's sad.