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jainphx
16 years ago
I’ll drink to that!
crosspatch
16 years ago
I was explaining to my 9yo daughter who President Reagan was.
He was a very fatherly, or grandfatherly figure. Very much the same likeable, amiable man in person that he came across as on television too.
Theresa, MSgt (ret), USAF
16 years ago
I had just joined America’s Air Force (1984) and he was (thank GOD) the President. He gave the military back its pride after the dhimmi betrayal of Vietnam. During his tenure, promotions and pay raises went up. He effectively gave the US Military back its PRIDE. I will never forget him or his support for the US Military and will remember to my dying day his funeral which I watched while stationed in Guam. His illegal alien amnesty sucked and unfortunately has set the precedence for today’s stupidity. But, his strong stand against the then enemy’s of America was spot on. Unfortunately I don’t think we have another “Reagan” waiting in the wings simply because the current crop of politicians doesn’t give a fuck about America, only about their own power and making money off the backs of the middle class.
crosspatch
16 years ago
I went in during the 1976 Presidential election campaign. I wasn’t old enough to vote yet. Carter won and it seemed like things started going downhill immediately. When Reagan was elected, things started going in the other direction immediately.
I miss him too. I first met both him and Mrs. Reagan in Fountain Square in Cincinnatti in 1980 as they arrived for a rally. This was back before they had an envelope of Secret Service around them and my friend and I just ran right up to them. Later, my friend told then Governor Reagan to “pick Bush” for Vice President. Bush had just dropped out of the nomination race.
I was at the convention in Detroit when Reagan was nominated. Four years later, he came to my hometown in 1984 and I met him again.
In 1988 I was working for him in the White House Political Office and at a meeting my boss asked for ideas for a trip to Ohio. I suggested a visit to my hometown and was thrilled when I was informed we were going.
I took the picture outside the courthouse with the ballons during that visit. My favorite photo is the one I took in B&W of RR aboard the Ferdinand Magellan, or “Car One” as it was called when the President was aboard. That was in Perrysburg, Ohio in 1984. The one with Margaret Thatcher on the White House Lawn in 1988 would be a very close second.
I did a 25 year anniversary look back at Reagan 2 years ago and talked more about my experiences for anyone who is interested:
And the video I posted on You Tube of a hymn from the Reagan funeral continues to attract a large number of viewers:
MM
16 years ago
Cool, very cool. The picture on the back of the train is an all timer.
I flew to DC from Denver to stand where those 2 big streets fork(merge?) when his caisson passed by. I forget the names of the streets but you would look down one and you can see this dome, I think it’s Congress. I was just about the first one there and I remember it was really hot. It was the very least I could do to show my deep respect for this great man
MM: Sounds like you were standing at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. If you noticed the new building of the National Gallery nearby that’s where you were.
Yiddish: Chester Arthur? Yeah, I wish we had followed a rule requiring competancy in government. But you and I both know that the minute the Bush Administration would try to thin out the dead wood at State, CIA or elsehwere the Dems in Congress would scream bloody murder.
RG
16 years ago
I was standing at the foot of the Capitol Building when his caisson turned to go in. Fighter planes screamed overhead in the missing man formation, cannons on the hill to my left exploded with plumes of fire and smoke billowing out their bores, hundreds of troups marching in formation for the length of the procession route in full dress in temperatures nearing 100 degrees stepping as high as they had when they started hours before. The emotion I felt was overwhelming. Truly the greatest president in my 55 years. The salvation of U.S military might.
Regan was a popular president – not a good one. In fact he was a VERY BAD president. He supported Nicaraguan Terrorists by flooding our streets with crack cocaine in order to fight communism. Under Reaganomics (the same vodoo economics denounced by the first Bush – and what we have today), we sent the deficit skyrocketing, growing faster in real dollars than under any other president, including the current one. We cut social spending to the bone, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. We cut school funding, trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable. We banned the Beach Boys as attracting the wrong sort of crowd. More appointed officials were indicted and convicted of crimes than under any other president. We gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. We claimed that trees cause most pollution.
He catastrophically lowered taxes in 1981, creating debt so bad he raised taxes each of the next six years and still didn’t make up for it. And while he streamlined the complex and exemption-riddled income tax, his changes created the largest-ever shift of tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-class and working poor.
He was a bad president, who promulgated bad policies and appointed bad people. Selective memory is an amazing thing.
“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.”–Øystein Dahle, former Vice President of Exxon for Norway
Yeah… Reagan flooded our streets with crack cocaine… And if we went to the source and booted out the Sandistas and Cubans and now Venezuelans using drug dollars to fund their Marxist takeover schemes you would have been the first to object.
What a load of crap you spew. History’s judgement has shown your view to be as false, empty and hate filled as your view towards President Bush or, for that matter, ANY U.S. President who attempts to lead this world to a better, more prosperous , peace with justice existence.
Maybe Reagan did let some mentally ill out on the streets (actually, it was Democrats who insisted these people cannot be held) but apparently, Reagan missed a few and you are due back at the hospital for your next treatment.
Americans are rightly famous for being astonishly ignorant of their own even recent history, and indifferent to the truth anyway.
You might excuse Ol’ Grandad for being a bit ‘hands-off, but some pretty bad stuff happened on his watch, and it’s a matter of public record. Saying it’s not so doesn’t make it not so.
First, the ‘October Surprise’. Ronnie’s people illegally interfered in US foreign policy in order to ensure that the Hostages in Iran were not released until the very moment of his inauguration. This was treason, and while Ronnie got the hero treatment for their release, they were actually detained longer.
Ollie’s boys traded arms for hostages, and under North and Gen. Secord brought CIA planeloads of crack cocaine into the LA area, and from there it started spreading east. Money went to Ronnie’s ‘Freedom Fighters’, whom he likened to the Founding Fathers. But the Founding Fathers didn’t smash grenades into people’s mouths (peasants, teachers, farmers, children) and then blow their heads off. They didn’t murder nuns and nail women to barn doors. They didn’t spread maximum terror. Ronnie’s freedom fighters did. A strange kind of freedom.
One of Ronnie’s pals was ‘Blowtorch Bob’ D’Aubisson of El Salvadore. Blowtorch Bob liked to tie people up and burn them. For freedom of course. They sort of offed an Archbishop as well. Oh well. Maybe Ronnie forgot. Maybe everyone did. Or just didn’t give a damn.
please, loosen the tinfoil, and while ranting away about atrocities, I keep looking for your denunciation of Al Queda’s terrorism in Iraq, but I haven’t seen one iota.
That elements of the CIA imported crack into the US on CIA equipment is simply not arguable, but established fact.
As for Al Queida, its presence is negligible and is just one more Big Lie to justify an insane and illegal invasion. I suppose Saddam snuck over and planted Thermate in WTC Building Seven and the Towers? Lots of you deep thinkers seem to believe it. After all George said that there’s ‘evildoing bad guys’ out there. Maybe even under your bed. Watch out!
Tinfoil? If it prevented delusional and infantile thinking, I’d buy you a big roll. Extra strength. With a bow on it.
I knew unmurrikan was a hate filled libtard. But he’s also NUTS!
I shouldn’t be suprised. Insanity and hate go hand in hand.
ChrisG
16 years ago
Mike,
That is an understatement!! Unmurrikan is an asinine useless idiot. Hate-filled, pre-programed with holier than thou leftist elitism and grossly ignorant.
unmurikan, thermite? OMG, please show me the bomb residue analysis results. I’d be impressed.
“That elements of the CIA imported crack into the US on CIA equipment is simply not arguable, but established fact.”
…prove it. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, you name it…FBI directors, Democratic Presidents, they all say it didn’t happen.
“As for Al Queida, its presence is negligible and is just one more Big Lie to justify an insane and illegal invasion.”
…Al Queda is small in number, but big in effect (suicidal tactics tend to keep the numbers a bit on the low side. See, when a guy goes and kills himself, it takes 1 more off their numbers. That’s how it works). Most of the people killed in Iraq have been killed by suicide bombers, and almost all of the suicide bombers have been Al Queda. Sucide bombers tend NOT to survive, so the numbers stay low.
As to the illegal invasion…nah. UN 678 and 687 authorized the use of force and given the lack of international sanciton against the US for its invasion…I guess you’re wrong. Invasion aside, UN resolution 1483 sec 1-4 not only authorize the occupation, but MANDATE it. Again, dare to question the propaganda you read.
“I suppose Saddam snuck over and planted Thermate in WTC Building Seven and the Towers? Lots of you deep thinkers seem to believe it. After all George said that there’s ‘evildoing bad guys’ out there. Maybe even under your bed. Watch out!”
…Evil doesn’t exist? Ever seen what a Jihidi does to a captured American? Or a captured/kidnapped Iraqi? Ever even bothered to question it?
ChrisG
16 years ago
Yes unmurikan, there are evil people out there and we try our best to fight them. However, worse are the enablers of evil, people like you. Enablers deny the evil in front of them, stab those who fight evil in the back, and spread lies and hate about the ones who dare stand up to evil. After the holocaust which evil people bring, these same enablers then blame the defenders they betrayed for not doing enough soon enough.
I’ll drink to that!
I was explaining to my 9yo daughter who President Reagan was.
Crosspatch: I doubt they are teaching her much about Reagan in the public schools… unless it was that he thought ketchup was a vegetable.
I told her that he was kind of like America’s Dad in how most people saw him back then.
He was a very fatherly, or grandfatherly figure. Very much the same likeable, amiable man in person that he came across as on television too.
I had just joined America’s Air Force (1984) and he was (thank GOD) the President. He gave the military back its pride after the dhimmi betrayal of Vietnam. During his tenure, promotions and pay raises went up. He effectively gave the US Military back its PRIDE. I will never forget him or his support for the US Military and will remember to my dying day his funeral which I watched while stationed in Guam. His illegal alien amnesty sucked and unfortunately has set the precedence for today’s stupidity. But, his strong stand against the then enemy’s of America was spot on. Unfortunately I don’t think we have another “Reagan” waiting in the wings simply because the current crop of politicians doesn’t give a fuck about America, only about their own power and making money off the backs of the middle class.
I went in during the 1976 Presidential election campaign. I wasn’t old enough to vote yet. Carter won and it seemed like things started going downhill immediately. When Reagan was elected, things started going in the other direction immediately.
That’s you? I am jealous. I sure miss him
I miss him too. I first met both him and Mrs. Reagan in Fountain Square in Cincinnatti in 1980 as they arrived for a rally. This was back before they had an envelope of Secret Service around them and my friend and I just ran right up to them. Later, my friend told then Governor Reagan to “pick Bush” for Vice President. Bush had just dropped out of the nomination race.
I was at the convention in Detroit when Reagan was nominated. Four years later, he came to my hometown in 1984 and I met him again.
In 1988 I was working for him in the White House Political Office and at a meeting my boss asked for ideas for a trip to Ohio. I suggested a visit to my hometown and was thrilled when I was informed we were going.
I took the picture outside the courthouse with the ballons during that visit. My favorite photo is the one I took in B&W of RR aboard the Ferdinand Magellan, or “Car One” as it was called when the President was aboard. That was in Perrysburg, Ohio in 1984. The one with Margaret Thatcher on the White House Lawn in 1988 would be a very close second.
I did a 25 year anniversary look back at Reagan 2 years ago and talked more about my experiences for anyone who is interested:
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com/2006/01/reagan-tribute-encore-eyewitness.html
And the video I posted on You Tube of a hymn from the Reagan funeral continues to attract a large number of viewers:
Cool, very cool. The picture on the back of the train is an all timer.
I flew to DC from Denver to stand where those 2 big streets fork(merge?) when his caisson passed by. I forget the names of the streets but you would look down one and you can see this dome, I think it’s Congress. I was just about the first one there and I remember it was really hot. It was the very least I could do to show my deep respect for this great man
I’ll agree that Reagan was the greatest of all Presidents. Anyone interested in a nominee for 2nd greatest?! How about this guy?! http://thisgoesto11.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-underrated-american-president.html
MM: Sounds like you were standing at the intersection of Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. If you noticed the new building of the National Gallery nearby that’s where you were.
Yiddish: Chester Arthur? Yeah, I wish we had followed a rule requiring competancy in government. But you and I both know that the minute the Bush Administration would try to thin out the dead wood at State, CIA or elsehwere the Dems in Congress would scream bloody murder.
I was standing at the foot of the Capitol Building when his caisson turned to go in. Fighter planes screamed overhead in the missing man formation, cannons on the hill to my left exploded with plumes of fire and smoke billowing out their bores, hundreds of troups marching in formation for the length of the procession route in full dress in temperatures nearing 100 degrees stepping as high as they had when they started hours before. The emotion I felt was overwhelming. Truly the greatest president in my 55 years. The salvation of U.S military might.
Regan was a popular president – not a good one. In fact he was a VERY BAD president. He supported Nicaraguan Terrorists by flooding our streets with crack cocaine in order to fight communism. Under Reaganomics (the same vodoo economics denounced by the first Bush – and what we have today), we sent the deficit skyrocketing, growing faster in real dollars than under any other president, including the current one. We cut social spending to the bone, creating the homeless problem by turning hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people out on the streets. We cut school funding, trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable. We banned the Beach Boys as attracting the wrong sort of crowd. More appointed officials were indicted and convicted of crimes than under any other president. We gave chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. We claimed that trees cause most pollution.
He catastrophically lowered taxes in 1981, creating debt so bad he raised taxes each of the next six years and still didn’t make up for it. And while he streamlined the complex and exemption-riddled income tax, his changes created the largest-ever shift of tax burden from the wealthy to the middle-class and working poor.
He was a bad president, who promulgated bad policies and appointed bad people. Selective memory is an amazing thing.
“Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth.”–Øystein Dahle, former Vice President of Exxon for Norway
Yeah… Reagan flooded our streets with crack cocaine… And if we went to the source and booted out the Sandistas and Cubans and now Venezuelans using drug dollars to fund their Marxist takeover schemes you would have been the first to object.
What a load of crap you spew. History’s judgement has shown your view to be as false, empty and hate filled as your view towards President Bush or, for that matter, ANY U.S. President who attempts to lead this world to a better, more prosperous , peace with justice existence.
Maybe Reagan did let some mentally ill out on the streets (actually, it was Democrats who insisted these people cannot be held) but apparently, Reagan missed a few and you are due back at the hospital for your next treatment.
Americans are rightly famous for being astonishly ignorant of their own even recent history, and indifferent to the truth anyway.
You might excuse Ol’ Grandad for being a bit ‘hands-off, but some pretty bad stuff happened on his watch, and it’s a matter of public record. Saying it’s not so doesn’t make it not so.
First, the ‘October Surprise’. Ronnie’s people illegally interfered in US foreign policy in order to ensure that the Hostages in Iran were not released until the very moment of his inauguration. This was treason, and while Ronnie got the hero treatment for their release, they were actually detained longer.
Ollie’s boys traded arms for hostages, and under North and Gen. Secord brought CIA planeloads of crack cocaine into the LA area, and from there it started spreading east. Money went to Ronnie’s ‘Freedom Fighters’, whom he likened to the Founding Fathers. But the Founding Fathers didn’t smash grenades into people’s mouths (peasants, teachers, farmers, children) and then blow their heads off. They didn’t murder nuns and nail women to barn doors. They didn’t spread maximum terror. Ronnie’s freedom fighters did. A strange kind of freedom.
One of Ronnie’s pals was ‘Blowtorch Bob’ D’Aubisson of El Salvadore. Blowtorch Bob liked to tie people up and burn them. For freedom of course. They sort of offed an Archbishop as well. Oh well. Maybe Ronnie forgot. Maybe everyone did. Or just didn’t give a damn.
planeloads of crack into LA….
please, loosen the tinfoil, and while ranting away about atrocities, I keep looking for your denunciation of Al Queda’s terrorism in Iraq, but I haven’t seen one iota.
That elements of the CIA imported crack into the US on CIA equipment is simply not arguable, but established fact.
As for Al Queida, its presence is negligible and is just one more Big Lie to justify an insane and illegal invasion. I suppose Saddam snuck over and planted Thermate in WTC Building Seven and the Towers? Lots of you deep thinkers seem to believe it. After all George said that there’s ‘evildoing bad guys’ out there. Maybe even under your bed. Watch out!
Tinfoil? If it prevented delusional and infantile thinking, I’d buy you a big roll. Extra strength. With a bow on it.
Good luck. You’re going to need it.
I knew unmurrikan was a hate filled libtard. But he’s also NUTS!
I shouldn’t be suprised. Insanity and hate go hand in hand.
Mike,
That is an understatement!! Unmurrikan is an asinine useless idiot. Hate-filled, pre-programed with holier than thou leftist elitism and grossly ignorant.
unmurikan, thermite? OMG, please show me the bomb residue analysis results. I’d be impressed.
“That elements of the CIA imported crack into the US on CIA equipment is simply not arguable, but established fact.”
…prove it. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, you name it…FBI directors, Democratic Presidents, they all say it didn’t happen.
“As for Al Queida, its presence is negligible and is just one more Big Lie to justify an insane and illegal invasion.”
…Al Queda is small in number, but big in effect (suicidal tactics tend to keep the numbers a bit on the low side. See, when a guy goes and kills himself, it takes 1 more off their numbers. That’s how it works). Most of the people killed in Iraq have been killed by suicide bombers, and almost all of the suicide bombers have been Al Queda. Sucide bombers tend NOT to survive, so the numbers stay low.
As to the illegal invasion…nah. UN 678 and 687 authorized the use of force and given the lack of international sanciton against the US for its invasion…I guess you’re wrong. Invasion aside, UN resolution 1483 sec 1-4 not only authorize the occupation, but MANDATE it. Again, dare to question the propaganda you read.
“I suppose Saddam snuck over and planted Thermate in WTC Building Seven and the Towers? Lots of you deep thinkers seem to believe it. After all George said that there’s ‘evildoing bad guys’ out there. Maybe even under your bed. Watch out!”
…Evil doesn’t exist? Ever seen what a Jihidi does to a captured American? Or a captured/kidnapped Iraqi? Ever even bothered to question it?
Yes unmurikan, there are evil people out there and we try our best to fight them. However, worse are the enablers of evil, people like you. Enablers deny the evil in front of them, stab those who fight evil in the back, and spread lies and hate about the ones who dare stand up to evil. After the holocaust which evil people bring, these same enablers then blame the defenders they betrayed for not doing enough soon enough.
Fits you to a “T”.