I was working in DC in the summer of 84 when that idiot Watts decided not to invite those heathen rock n rollers the Beach Boys to headline the 4th of July concert. Thank God Nancy intervened. There was a lot of great bands that played that day but the one that really stood out in my mind was Roy Clark. Man he put on a hell of a show. One of the best guitarist ever!
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i don't know of anyone who said he won the cold war single handedly, but there does appear to be many (liberals included) who believe he played a huge part....
How Reagan won the Cold War.
By Fred Kaplan
So, did Ronald Reagan bring on the end of the Cold War? Well, yes. Recently declassified documents leave no doubt about the matter.
The end of the Cold War may be the most oddball chapter in the history of the 20th century. How fitting, then, that the two most oddball leaders, Gorbachev and Reagan, made it come to pass.
http://www.slate.com/id/2102081/
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I don't disagree that there are people who worship Obama and Clinton. I misspoke what I was trying to say. Despite the people who want to point at Obama or Clinton as examples of great presidents, there is nothing in my lifetime to come close to the fervor with which the members of the Church of The Gipper proclaim his name.
Any mention of negative things about Reagan brings out the dogs. And on this topic, Dixie is not rare.
Reagan DIDN'T make any mistakes! You are trying to claim he wasn't perfect, and that's not hard to support... I agree, he wasn't PERFECT, no mortal man is! As for presidents, and actual presidential mistakes, Reagan was as close to perfect as it gets. The hyped up bullshit you have drummed up, should be a testament to how pathetic and stupid this argumentative line is. I mean really... his Interior Secretary appointment? That's all you got?
i've seen folks as USMB laud obama like he is christ, no matter what. i've also met some in my laugh who laud clinton like he did nothing wrong and seen them on message boards....i don't doubt your experience, but i think worshippers abound on both sides.
dixie is a far, far rightwing individual, the right can do no wrong and in fact he believes i'm a left wing wacko....i don't doubt there are others like dixie, but i just don't see it on the level you have. perhaps because i live in liberal cali on the coast
Why didn't someone say so at the time? We tried all sorts to get rid of her. Free holiday's in the Falklands, an island in the sun....No. That should be an island ON the sun!
But, poor soul, didnt really understand people. She wanted to get Arthur Scargill (mineworkers leader) into the sack but went about it in the wrong way. Bit like little girls in the playground who vow hatred to the boy they most lust over!!
She did for sex what what your Palin does for polar bears!
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/blog.php?u=237
If you feel so inclined a comment would be appreciated.
Respect a believers right to believe, but they should damn well repect our right to challenge such utterly illogical notions.
Thats a pretty serious screw up. Reagan put a man in charge of all of our public lands and he turned around and said "We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber.".
He was a disaster.
If you want ignore Iran/Contra scandal as liberals making noise, that is laughable.
If you want to forgive him for his administration covering up a massacre by his "freedom fighters", that is your choice.
But this "he didn't make any mistake or have any scandals" is ridiculous.
Sorry Dixie, I like Ronnie a lot, I sincerly did, but despite his many character flaws Clinton has been the best President in my life time. Reagan did not lead this nation to the level of prosperity that Clinton did and Reagan was never really tested by any great crises (though neither was Clinton). The last 4 years of Clintons Presidency were the best years of my life financially and using Reagans standard of "Are you better off now or then." Clinton walks away with that one. I prospered far more under Clinton then I did Reagan. Only 4 US Presidents in my life time had to lead this nation during times of great crisis. Reagan wasn't one of them. They were Johnson Vietnam), Nixon (Vietnam, Watergate), Ford (Nixon's resignation) and Bush II (Sept 11). Three of those Presidents failed badly. Ford was the only one who managed a great national crisis admirably and paid a huge political price for it too. Personally of the Presidents in my life time I find Ford to have been the most admirable from the stand point of personal character. Considering he was a michigan grad.....you have no idea how hard that was for me to say!!
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I'm not "far far right" at all. I am quite moderate and a fiscally conservative. I also don't think you are a left-wing wacko, I think you are a misguided libertarian moderate who is very easily duped by liberal propaganda, or a former 'compassionate conservative' who still thinks we need to work with liberals and try to get along. When you are posting as yourself, you seem to be fairly inline conservative with your views, very similar to my own... but when your wife or gay lover posts as you, the viewpoint is off the charts to the left. I really wish you'd set them up with their own account here, it's not that hard to do, I am sure Grind or Damo can help with that.
Reagan certainly played a significant role in ending the cold war as did all the US Presidents from Truman to George H.W. Bush. Nor can you discount the impact that world leaders like Lech Welensa, Pope John Paul II and Michael Gorbachev had in ending the cold war but there is certainly this tendency of Reagan worshipers to over state his impact. Reagan, for example, was not as significant in wining to Cold War as Truman was and that is not meant as a slight towards Reagan. Truman took a huge political hit for the containment doctrine he implmented but he stood by it as did Ike, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush I. The two biggest factors for the US winning the Cold War was #1 the consistant application of the Truman Doctrine as US policy towards Soviet expansionism for over 40 years and #2 the fact that the Soviets severly over extended their reach and their ultimate collapse was a great deal related to that over reach.
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