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March 5, 2016 at 6:48 PM #21901March 5, 2016 at 10:49 PM #795352svelteParticipant
I love you scaredy. Funniest. Thread. Ever!
your last sentence sums it up beautifully.
March 5, 2016 at 11:26 PM #795354paramountParticipantI’m detecting an AIPAC conspiracy somewhere here…
March 6, 2016 at 12:19 PM #795367paramountParticipantIn light of the death of Mrs. Reagan I feel this thread should be deleted in the interest of dignity.
March 6, 2016 at 2:46 PM #795370scaredyclassicParticipantDignity? Trump was on Howard stern 20 years ago and likened sleeping around in the 80s as his own personal Vietnam. He was astonished at his luck in avoiding STDs with all the boning he did.
Still, I’d vote for trump over Reagan. Primarily cause I doubt he is dumb or lame enough to be influenced by his wife’s astrologer. i hate astrology and disqualify anyone for dignity purposes who conducts their life by astrologer recs.
March 6, 2016 at 6:10 PM #795374FlyerInHiGuestNancy? I’m totally indifferent she died. Don’t care one bit.
March 6, 2016 at 7:31 PM #795377svelteParticipant[quote=paramount]In light of the death of Mrs. Reagan I feel this thread should be deleted in the interest of dignity.[/quote]
Not sure what this thread has to do with Nancy except all those being discussed are Republican. Other than that her name wasn’t brought up until you did it. Sorry to see her go, I think my wife and I would have been friends with the Reagans had they not been famous and we met them socially. Their politics weren’t ours, but then I could say the same of most of the friends in our circle.
I wish Colin Powell would run. I’d vote for that man for sure. But in today’s environment he wouldn’t win anyway since he wouldn’t pander to the extreme voters.
I love what he said today:
Referring to the “civility” and “lack of any nastiness” he saw in Ronald Reagan, Powell, who served as Reagan’s national security advisor, decried the tone of the current Republican presidential campaign. “To stand there and do junior high school tricks on one another is belittling the country and belittling the office to which they are striving,” he said.Powell added, “Even Jerry Springer thinks it’s gone too far, and when Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.” He was referring to recent remarks in the Financial Times from Springer, who served as the Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1970s.
March 6, 2016 at 9:24 PM #795383scaredyclassicParticipanti do not understand the extraordinary love americans feel for reagan. i think the nation would need to go under extensive psychoanalysis to really get to the root of it. to me, iran-contra, CIA cocaine deals, just say no hypocrisy, ollie north, large governmental debt, and alzheimers are all i take away from it. but for most people, it is like he was some great hero. not sure where it all comes from. not that any of it matters. none of these politicians really matters. its all just a giant ebbing and flowing history. nothing makes any difference. no one is responsible. we are all pawns…
except for vermin supremes mandatory pony registration policy and dental health laws, that could really change it up…
March 6, 2016 at 9:32 PM #795384paramountParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]i do not understand the extraordinary love americans feel for reagan.[/quote]
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
March 6, 2016 at 9:40 PM #795385scaredyclassicParticipantOften I state at rain clouds and ask for rain.
When it is time, it rains.
March 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM #795386CoronitaParticipant[quote]
I wish Colin Powell would run. I’d vote for that man for sure. But in today’s environment he wouldn’t win anyway since he wouldn’t pander to the extreme voters.
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March 6, 2016 at 11:21 PM #795388FlyerInHiGuest[quote=scaredyclassic]i do not understand the extraordinary love americans feel for reagan. i think the nation would need to go under extensive psychoanalysis to really get to the root of it. to me, iran-contra, CIA cocaine deals, just say no hypocrisy, ollie north, large governmental debt, and alzheimers are all i take away from it. but for most people, it is like he was some great hero. not sure where it all comes from. not that any of it matters. none of these politicians really matters. its all just a giant ebbing and flowing history. nothing makes any difference. no one is responsible. we are all pawns…
except for vermin supremes mandatory pony registration policy and dental health laws, that could really change it up…[/quote]
Anybody who’s enamoured with Reagan needs to read some history.
Maybe Reagan had a personality that made people feel good. But policy wise, he was withdrawn and was not very knowledgeable of the issues. He likely had Alzheimer’s while in office. Bush senior and Jim Baker ran the government.
March 7, 2016 at 7:04 AM #795390no_such_realityParticipantWhile not enamored with Reagan, I did live through his Presidency as a young adult.
At the beginning the country was a —-ed up dangerous place, bleak, depressed. Double digit interest rates on basically everything. The Iran hostage crises. Soviets in Afghanistan. Rust belt rotting our northern cities.
At the end, it still was, a little less bleak, little less globally insecure. At a cost though.
March 7, 2016 at 10:16 AM #795395FlyerInHiGuestReagan did a New Deal for the defense industry.
California defense engineers were happy. Defense spending was so out of control that when Bush Sr became president, he cut defense spending causing a painful recession in CA. Defense engineers can tell you.His admistration understood that money is a resource that government can create and use (essentially huge deficit spending for 8 years). He started globalization and economists all over the world give him credit for that. This increased American purchasing power and consumer spending. The middle class felt richer.
The Soviet Union falling apart was just a matter time. Reagan had nothing to do with it.
I still don’t believe that Reagan intellectually came up with his policies or undershood their implications because he never talked in depth about his policies like Bush Sr, Clinton or Obama. Reagan was a good salesman. But great conservative president? Definitively not.
March 7, 2016 at 5:47 PM #795412njtosdParticipant[quote=paramount]In light of the death of Mrs. Reagan I feel this thread should be deleted in the interest of dignity.[/quote]
You realize she wasn’t President, right?
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