Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Reagan

[Hayabusa Rider]

Never before did a man go from playing with monkeys on a movie set to President, but I wonder if there's that much difference.

 

[Bowfinger]

Never before did a man go from playing with monkeys on a movie set to President, but I wonder if there's that much difference.

Yes. Congress has a hell of a lot more monkeys than any studio could afford.

 

[Phokus]

 

[alphatarget1]

People like to worship Reagan as if he's God. Seriously.

I guess the same could be said about JFK...

 

[lothar]

Iran Contra - Reagan helped support terrorists.

You can't blame Reagan for that.
His brain had largely turn to mush by then and he didn't know what was going on.

 

[Jhhnn]

Congratulations, Ronnie. You're now a demigod, the stuff of myth and legend, everything the Republican Party wants you to be.

As one of your comrades once said, "deficits don't matter", and neither does the truth.

 

[First]

What's funny is that Obama has been more conservative on taxes, foreign policy and immigration than Reagan ever was. Seriously, is there any doubt the raging boner with Reagan is significantly rooted in whites loving their own white culture? Not racist in nature because that implies a knowing hatred of blacks et al. But the Reagan worship is still at the very least narrow-minded idolatry founded in misguided notions of what makes a "true" American. Because his policies were about as liberal as they get, for a Republican. I challenge anyone to reference a more liberal Republican POTUS in the last 50 years.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Reagan. Awesome president.

Raised taxes
Raised deficit
terrorists kill 241 Marines..no retaliation
Iran Contra

But he gave an awesome speech. No wonder our current president likes him.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Let's praise Clinton for blowing up an aspirin factory to divert attention from himself.

I was not aware that stopping a genocide was a bad thing (numerous mass graves are still uncovered and discovered) and i was not aware that Clinton personally targeted an aspirin factory.

But it could be worse, he could have started a full invasion based on made up stories that several intelligence services told them were false, he could have had his VP lie to the people to bring the fear into their hearts by statements like "do you want the next piece of evidence to be a mushroom cloud over New York" only so he'd win that election that NO ONE thought he could win before that?

It could be so bad that he actually removed troops from the terrorism hotbed to allow them to spread and thereby prolonging a war from five years to FOREVER.

But you go right ahead and hate him for stopping a known genocide, that's what an idiot like you would do anyway.

 

[trenchfoot]

I think he was just as good at being POTUS as he was being an actor, (yeah, I am saying he stunk at both lol) because for him, being POTUS was just another acting role he got to play. I'm sure by the time he left office he didn't know when he was acting and when he wasn't.

What really bothered me about him was how he turned his back on his austere upbringing as if it was chasing him around all the time, and went full bore over to the other side, and then some.

 

[zinfamous]

HIV never had a better friend than Reagan.

God bless that man, for sitting on his ass all the while CDC confirmed how it spread, how best to contain it, advised that money and attention now would curb the spread, saving the lives of many millions.

Kudos to him for ignoring it, believing it to be the perfect solution to "the homosexual problem."

what a saint, that man was.

 

[zinfamous]

Yes. Congress has a hell of a lot more monkeys than any studio could afford.

:thumbsup:

 

[zinfamous]

Please don't launch into any traitor-in-chief shit, OK? It's been very peaceful around here without all that.

Why some choose to be all butt hurt in regards to a dead man who hasn't held office in over two decades is beyond me. I guess it somehow soothes the leftie soul?

We can't change the past but we are determining the future right now.

i suppose it's especially bitter now, because, well, we are currently living through the penultimate results of supply-side economics.

No fucking way about it. This economy is what Reagan has done for you.

Few economists disagree with that.

 

[zinfamous]

Is there a single Republican president from, let's say the last 100 years that you guys don't think belongs behind bars?

Where's the shakes head emoticon?

eh, probably Ford.

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[OCGuy]

RIP

 

[shortylickens]

For reference, NONE of those things has been corrected by any president since. In fact some of them have even helped. Ronnie may be evil to the rest of the world, but he tried hard to take care of us, which is more than most can say.

 

[Brovane]

What's funny is that Obama has been more conservative on taxes, foreign policy and immigration than Reagan ever was. Seriously, is there any doubt the raging boner with Reagan is significantly rooted in whites loving their own white culture? Not racist in nature because that implies a knowing hatred of blacks et al. But the Reagan worship is still at the very least narrow-minded idolatry founded in misguided notions of what makes a "true" American. Because his policies were about as liberal as they get, for a Republican. I challenge anyone to reference a more liberal Republican POTUS in the last 50 years.

I would say Ford was more liberal. He almost didn't get the republican presidential nomination for 1976 despite being the incumbment president for the republican party.

Actually if Reagan was running for the 2012 presidential nomination everyone would be calling him a RINO. When he ran for governor of CA he campaigned for not raising taxes. However when he became governor and found out the full extend of how much CA was in the red he agreed on a tax increase. He was willing to compromise to get legislation passed. If we was actually in office today Rush would be calling him all sorts of names. I doubt he would ever get the republican presidential nomination with how far right the party has gone.

 

[Brovane]

And his hair never turned gray from the stress of being President...simply amazing!!

Actually in his second term the grey started coming out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P..._Report_with_John_Tower_and_Edmund_Muskie.jpg

 

[Brovane]

Is there a single Republican president from, let's say the last 100 years that you guys don't think belongs behind bars?

Where's the shakes head emoticon?

Eisenhower.

 

[CitizenKain]

For reference, NONE of those things has been corrected by any president since. In fact some of them have even helped. Ronnie may be evil to the rest of the world, but he tried hard to take care of us, which is more than most can say.

Well, if you were rich, white and in the defense industry, things were pretty good.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Well, if you were rich, white and in the defense industry, things were pretty good.

I was white, middle class, and my dad worked in the auto industry and things were great for us.

 

[Vette73]

I was white, middle class, and my dad worked in the auto industry and things were great for us.

Well GM and others did/do make things for the defense industry.

 

[KGB]

eh, probably Ford.

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NOPE!! He pardoned Nixon.

I'd say Ike was the last great Republican president.

I switched from Republican to Democrat and never changed what I believed in. Reagan was the reason.

 

[Brovane]

NOPE!! He pardoned Nixon.

I'd say Ike was the last great Republican president.

I switched from Republican to Democrat and never changed what I believed in. Reagan was the reason.

Pardoning Nixon was the right thing to do to allow the country to move on and heal after Watergate. He took a lot of heat for at the time but it was what was best for the country. It took a lot of courage for Ford to do that. It almost certainly cost him the 1976 election. Even Senator Kennedy a couple of decades later admitted that Ford made the right decision in granting a pardon to Nixon so the country could move on.

 

[HomerJS]

Starting his post nomination Presidential run with a speech at Philadelphia Mississippi was a big thumbs up to racists and a big fuck you to black people.