What We Used To Be

This is a picture of President Obama, apparently at the site of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, hugging some downtrodden looking woman.  The caption read,
"What we used to be before the tea party, before the Koch brothers, before Rush Limbaugh, before the birthers...Americans"

Rush Limbaugh was born in 1951, so that sounds about right.  That likely gets us back far enough to where it wasn't a sin to be an American.  That gets us back before the Obamas, Clintons, and Bushes.  Back before selling out to Middle East oil.  Back before out country was run by organized crime.  This includes unions, politicians, and big business.