Letters to the Editor
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Does anybody seriously believe that Obama admires Reagan?
Please.
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Reagan sold arms illegally to Iran so his covert agents could
supply the Contras with funds to buy guns, going expressly against the law of the land. That my friends was known then, as now, as "The Iran-Contra Affair". He was let off the hook by gutless Democrats and a bevy of cleaver GOP nasties, including Bushit's daddy.. ("Now, there you go again, Stevio...")
Bill Clinton got a blow job fro Monica Lewinski which broke no law. That was known then, as now, as "The Monica Lewinski Affair". That almost got Clinton impeached by GOP nasties many of which were getting blow jobs from a bevy of their own mistresses.
Apparently lots of "us" loved Ronald Rea-gun, not so many Clinton...
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There are good to great presidents
Get over it, Reagan was one of them. A great orator and leader, Reagan brought new prosperity and prestige to the US.
It is not about party but about who a good leader is REGARDLESS of party affiliation.
Something the current crop of Dumcraps will never understand. Probably because their maw is too deeply embedded in the corporate honey pot.
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And this matters why?
What does any of this have to do with our lives? It simply bores me now. And that's a shame, because if the words they said made a bit of difference, this of all years I could hang on every one.
It's a pity.
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The only excesses of the 60's and 70's
were that Labor and working Americans were getting too much money. Reagan put an end to that and today Americans are still afraid to vote their own economic interests. They rather vote about gays and abortion and religion. That is the real Reagan legacy.
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let me be the first to say
I do not respect Ronald Reagan or his presidency. His legacy is one of deficit spending and the destruction of many vital institutions that have left our country worse off. His trickle down economics were the same ineffective supply-side economics practiced by the current administration. All they serve(d) to do was continue the upward concentration of wealth with the ultra-wealthy.
I cringe everytime I hear someone wax nostalgic about his administration as if those were the "good old days." Those days were terrible, unless you were a coke-snorting yuppie pig.
We're a poorer, meaner, and stupider country for ole Ronnie's efforts.
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This just in: Rush Limpbough is depressed and unable to endorse a Republican
The Los Angeles Times is reporting on Comedian Rush's meltdown over the MLKJ Holiday when he whined that he's sick of people asking him which Republican he's going to endorse.
"I might not endorse any of them," he chaffed. He said the whole Republican pack is as bad as he's ever seen it, referring back to the time when Bob Dole was the nominee and it was "hold your nose and vote for Dole" time in the GOP.
That's good, Rush. It's just more evidence that you have become irrelevant now that the nation has had a belly full of neo conservative crap. Soon you'll be hocking that gold-plated microphone for enough Oxycontin and Viagra to get you through another sex-tourism trip to the Dominican Republic.
You're goin' down, fat man. And it ain't gonna be pretty.
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HAHAHA
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You want a socialist/fascist state with cradle to grave handouts going your way.
No wonder you despise a great man like Reagan. No wonder I despise the radical left.
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What I meant to respond to
I cringe everytime I hear someone wax nostalgic about his administration as if those were the "good old days." Those days were terrible, unless you were a coke-snorting yuppie pig.
We're a poorer, meaner, and stupider country for ole Ronnie's efforts
You want a socialist/fascist state with cradle to grave handouts going your way.
No wonder you despise a great man like Reagan. No wonder I despise the radical left.
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Challenge to Barack and Hillary
Barack Obama's point and Hillary's point are exactly the same. Regardless of how badly his ideas turned out, Regan got elected because people wanted change and wanted to feel better about America and he could communicate to them what they wanted to hear. He was a pretty good actor and a terrible president. Only the very wealthy and old Republicans still can say Ronald Reagan did anything good for this country with a straight face.
We know you don't and didn't agree with Ronald Regan, both of you. And you do, too. Stop trying to pretend that you think the other one did.
So, here's the challenge. Barack! Hillary! Stop talking about what other people have said and done in the past. Stop parsing each other's words. Get in the present moment. Articulate your own ideas and show us what you're made of. Stop talking about th past and about each other and talk about us, now, moving ahead. Where do YOU want to lead us?
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Reagan had help
The Cult of Reagan notwithstanding (Reagan Legacy Foundation, I'm looking at you as well as the GOP as a whole), Reagan was helped by the presence of actual New Dealers winding up their tenures in Congress, who actually understood what being Democrat meant -- that helped moderate the brutish fist of Reaganomics, despite Reagan's wins in 1980 and 1984.
If Reagan had the kind of complicit rubber-stamp "Sieg Heil!" Congress Bush had to enable him, Reagan's presidency would've been a mess, instead of the teflon deception it's come to be seen as.
The Congress Reagan dealt with still knew how to legislate, still paid attention to bricks and mortar, and when Reagan had largely blown his political wad, they probably saved his ass by not going after him aggressively enough with Iran-Contra. That's the worst thing they did, but most of them still remembered Watergate, and feared going there again (big mistake).
Anyway, it wasn't entirely Reagan's affably bland charm and telegenic voodoo that won the day for his regime. Being shot (and surviving) surely helped, too -- gave him political cred that he used to borrow and spend like a drunken pirate, until the excesses caught up with him. It's easy to party hard in the here and now when you're foisting the tab on the future -- a lesson it seems America has yet to learn, apparently.
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Reagan was a mean-spirited fellow
But Obama's assessment of Reagan's impact is accurate. Reagan changed the discourse of American politics and his successors, Bush, Clinton, Bush, sang to Reagan's tune. Reagan may have directed the wave of "welfare queen" rhetoric, for example, but it took Mr. Clinton to actually gut welfare programs. The Clintons abandoned single-payer health care because of the Reaganesque criticism that it was "socialized medicine."
Obama's point is well-taken, we need a new era that answers Reagan the way Reagan cast himself as answering FDR.