Perhaps the greatest achievement ever in Ronald Reagan's life
No, I'm totally serious here. Considering what followed, it was.
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shareyeah, Reagan was a moron, but we usually don't post that sort of thing about former Presidents.
shareNo, Reagan wasn't a moron. He was one of the smartest presidents in recent history. Smarter than Clinton, and in a totally different league than the idiot piece of dog feces that currently contaminates the White House.
shareI'll second that!
shareI'm going to guess you're probably too young to remember a lot of Reagan's press conferences and such, but the man had the intellect of a pea. I'm sorry, but if you think Reagan was more intelligent than Clinton, a certified Rhodes Scholar, than you must be brain dead.
shareNo, I'm not too young. I don't put a whole lot of stock in the Rhodes Scholarship. Reagan may not have had the prestigious education that Clinton had, but he was a hell of a lot smarter. Education doesn't equate to intelligence.
shareI'm curious what exactly it is you do put stock in. What, may I ask, does someone of your persuasion equate with intelligence? I suppose next you'll tell us you prefer good old-fashioned, homespun wisdom eh?
shareI really wish I had stumbled upon this thread when this comment was made. Obviously, you're a pretentious, quasi-intellectual know-it-all with the political knowledge of a brick wall. It's really funny that you put so much stock in Rhodes. Why not put stock in decisions during presidency? Considering Ronald is put into the category of the greatest president by actual scholars, I would like to say that your wannabe intelligent comment is moot.
shareReagan may not have had the prestigious education that Clinton had, but he was a hell of a lot smarter.
Please explain how he was smart. On many occasions, he looked as if he was about to fall asleep during a press conference.
He dealt with simplistics, as in "The Soviet Union is an evil empire"-like how Scarecrow spoke a lot of there only being good and evil in the world.
Black/white thinking NEVER helps a President succeed. Then again, I don't consider the likes of Reagan and Scarecrow "Presidential"
This is also the same *beep* who laid a wreath on a Nazi soldier's tomb!
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Reagan was slightly smarter than Scarecrow (my nickname for Dubya because, like the Scaercrow from The Wizard of Oz, he has no brain. To get one, it would take a miracle, as in meeting a pseudo wizard)...there was a movement out here a short while back to change the name of Mt. Diablo to Mt. Reagan since Diablo is Spanish for "devil"-my question is: Mt. Reagan and Mt. Devil..what's the difference?
The only thing that should be renamed after Reagan is San Quentin Prison...change it to Ronald Reagan Prison. After all, that is where The Gipper should have gone once he left The White House due to his role with Iran-Contra.
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Reagan had more smarts in his finely combed hair than Clinton ever thought he had.
He was one of the smartest presidents in recent history. Smarter than Clinton, and in a totally different league than the idiot piece of dog feces that currently contaminates the White House.
If you consider him smart, look up Iran Contra. Bar none the DUMBEST crap he did! If you also find giving tax cuts to corporate whores who didn't earn them, quadrupling the national debt, lying about single payer health care, waiting until a dear friend dies to combat the AIDS epidemic, funding guerrilla warfare/death squads in Central America, wasteful spending on a stupid missile defense system, taking credit for crap he had nothing to do with at all (ending the Cold War, the Iran hostage crisis in the early 1980s), useless invasion of Grenada, anti feminist, anti environment...if you find all that as "smart", I got a bridge in Arizona to sell you.
Clinton and Obama are hardly stupid, both of them graduating from Ivy League schools (one as Magna Cum Laude, the other I'm sure graduated with Honors...that other one also went to Oxford for some time). Reagan likely barely got a 2.0 GPA in college.
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Smart? Even his own daughter, in her autobiography, says that he was vacant. Whenever he had a "conversation" with anyone, if they were talking, he would just get glassy-eyed and drift into a world of his own. "Smart" doesn't include running a nation on the advice of an astrologer.
share>Perhaps the greatest achievement ever in Ronald Reagan's life.
Well, THAT and defeating the Soviet Union and pulling the US economy out of the Jimmy Carter toilet.
But yeah, BfB ranks a close third……………..
***Oh, and crushing the corrupt airline traffic controller’s UNION as well. :)
Defeating Soviet Union? That country collapsed by itself. It was inevitable and Ronald played no part in that.
shareDefeating Soviet Union? That country collapsed by itself.
Exactly. Ask any comparative political scientist and he/she will tell you the primary factor surrounding The Soviet Union's downfall was Gorbachev's presenting a socialist agenda to the region, therefore enraging the rabid communists who swarmed all the states and in turn revolted against his idea. That sped up its collapse more so than anything the Reagan Administration did (if they acted on the Soviet Union, it was merely carrying out policies already set in stone by prior Presidents. Despite any of Carter's faults as President, he was and still is very skilled on foreign policy. Just read up how he dealt with North Korea in the mid 1990s to understand how much he truly did know on other countries' govt. systems and issues.
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THAT and defeating the Soviet Union
...I'm sure the likes of Glenn Beck told you this, huh?
He didn't defeat the Soviet Union at all, silly. He merely continued successful policies already put in place by previous Presidents since the moron had nothing original in that silly brain of his (likely full of two brain cells). Then you add to this how Gorbachev echoed a socialist platform, therefore increasing hostility within the region from the major communists there and the decline of the Soviets speeds up faster than Superman flying...he merely signed over arms control to them, followed already put in policies, and then Gorbachev's upsetting the majority faction
pulling the US economy out of the Jimmy Carter toilet.
Riiiight...very high unemployment in 1982 (highest since The Great Depression), Black Monday in 1987 (where it slumped. No way in about a year and a half could it come even close to recovery to where it would be even near prosperous in January/1989...bet Faux Propaganda won't tell you this ), quadrupled the national debt. That's "pulling the U.S. economy up"? I think not!
The only people who benefited from a Reagan economy were fat cat CEOs from major corporations. Everyone else suffered and therefore that rich/poor gap greatly expanded.
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Ronnie Raygun is the perfect poster boy for the Retardican party. The chimp would have made a better president.
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