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Was Reagan a good president?

Was Reagan a good president?


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Do you really want me to take that subjective material as a reason for why he was a great president? So he made us feel good! That's great and all but the repercussions of his presidency were not as delightful as you say they are. He did nothing to do with the Middle Eastern problems which were already arising in this period. In contrast, he funded the problems! Iran was and still is goin AWOL, Afghanistan became terrorist led because of him, Saddam magically got his hands on chemical weapons and a lot of money with Reagan. I don't understand how you can see him as a great president because he smiled and made you feel good. Ivan say at least he wasn't Carter.
Yeah, we already know about liberal whining. If you're going to bitch, you might at least you might try to be accurate about it. He left the presidency with a much better country and world, but perhaps his greatest accomplishment was rendering the left impotent for a generation. Hopefully there is another 'Reagan' waiting in the wings. We could certainly use a leader of his caliber today.

Anyway, the drivel is pointless. History has judged Reagan and no amount of revision is going to change his legacy.
 
Yeah, we already know about liberal whining. If you're going to bitch, you might at least you might try to be accurate about it. He left the presidency with a much better country and world, but perhaps his greatest accomplishment was rendering the left impotent for a generation. Hopefully there is another 'Reagan' waiting in the wings. We could certainly use a leader of his caliber today.

Anyway, the drivel is pointless. History has judged Reagan and no amount of revision is going to change his legacy.

Do you really consider that liberal whining? Just because I'm more liberal than conservative doesn't mean that I'm gonna whine. I was just pointing out that all of Reagan's "accomplishments" are subjective and that he, in no way, deserves a spot on Mt Rushmore.

If you were to look at his objective accomplishments only, then you have nothing more than a bad economic and foreign policy president.
 
He belongs on Mt. Rushmore.

Hardly. How ironic that he died from a disease that so many others died from...yet many of those died homeless because of him.

Sorry, you don't get on Mt. Rushmore with that pathetic legacy.
 
Hardly. How ironic that he died from a disease that so many others died from...yet many of those died homeless because of him.

Sorry, you don't get on Mt. Rushmore with that pathetic legacy.
You guys have to suck it up. Reagan's greatness is why he's still being discussed to this day. It further reflects itself in the pathetic consternation (whining) of the left. Now that's a legacy. As presidents go, he is a giant among midgets and indeed history has recognized this. In the unlikely event that oppressive leftist succeed, he will be vilified - but only then.
 
Reagan championed the corporate socialist movement of the early 1980s which was a key first-domino in the major ramp-up of tolerating masse illegal immigration (for cheap labor for business) and off-shoring American jobs to wage-slavers.

This domino chain led us to the current lingering recession, and it was obvious all along that something at least this bad was eventually going to happen with un-checked corporate socialism.

Today international corporate consortiums are the new super power, at the expense of scores of millions of American citizens and their living-wage jobs ..

.. All a direct result of Reagan's corporate socialist movement.

Was Reagan a good president?

Because of his championing of the corporate socialist movement, I cannot say "yes".
 
You guys have to suck it up. Reagan's greatness is why he's still being discussed to this day. It further reflects itself in the pathetic consternation (whining) of the left. Now that's a legacy. As presidents go, he is a giant among midgets and indeed history has recognized this. In the unlikely event that oppressive leftist succeed, he will be vilified - but only then.

Suck it up!? And your conclusion makes no sense! We still talk about Hitler and he was far from great. You are bandwagoning for Reagan which is worse than thinking he was actually a good president.
 
Suck it up!? And your conclusion makes no sense! We still talk about Hitler and he was far from great. You are bandwagoning for Reagan which is worse than thinking he was actually a good president.
I don't think he was a good president, as you suggest. I think he was a great president and I really couldn't care less what you think. Left-wing whining is not going to change Reagan's legacy. In fact I quite enjoy it and it only serves to build his stature.
 
I don't think he was a good president, as you suggest. I think he was a great president and I really couldn't care less what you think. Left-wing whining is not going to change Reagan's legacy. In fact I quite enjoy it and it only serves to build his stature.

Nobody is whining! You have no argument to support why you think Reagan was great other than he made people feel good and there is a bunch of stuff named after him. I'm not even as left-wing as you think. Even better, Reagan did several things that you would probably call socialistic if Obama had done it. It's the ignorance of the right-wing that scares me.
 
Hardly. How ironic that he died from a disease that so many others died from...yet many of those died homeless because of him.

Sorry, you don't get on Mt. Rushmore with that pathetic legacy.

what idiocy-most homeless people are nuts-not Reagan's fault
 
You guys have to suck it up.

You cons have to suck ... oh never mind..

Reagan's greatness is why he's still being discussed to this day. It further reflects itself in the pathetic consternation (whining) of the left.

Hardly. That you want to revise history is right in character for a righty. Like I said, next time you look around and see mentally ill homeless people...think of your hero Ronnie.
 
what idiocy-most homeless people are nuts-not Reagan's fault

Typical righty response. Let's revise history and while we are at it, let's blame the victims...

Thanks for playing.
 
Typical righty response. Let's revise history and while we are at it, let's blame the victims...

Thanks for playing.

Nice evasion-I want you to prove your claim about Reagan. Thanks for failing
 
Nice evasion-I want you to prove your claim about Reagan.

It's well know that RR's policies led to a virtual draining of mental institutions. Try to keep up. Not only that, he was no friend to education either. Never mind his economic policies are still haunting us now.

Homelessness
The Reagan Effect? | Feature | High Plains Reader
Helping America's Homeless: CHAPTER ONE
Reagan and the Homeless Epidemic in America

Education
Ronald Reagan's Educational Legacy
The Answer Sheet - Ronald Reagan's impact on education today
 
It's well know that RR's policies led to a virtual draining of mental institutions. Try to keep up. Not only that, he was no friend to education either. Never mind his economic policies are still haunting us now.

Homelessness
The Reagan Effect? | Feature | High Plains Reader
Helping America's Homeless: CHAPTER ONE
Reagan and the Homeless Epidemic in America

Education
Ronald Reagan's Educational Legacy
The Answer Sheet - Ronald Reagan's impact on education today
the federal government should not be in a position to have an affect upon education

citing some silly blog-sorry doesn't cut it
 
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Just because they don't agree with you doesn't mean they are inherently "far lefty" ....

why don't you post their "resumes" and get back to me
 
why don't you post their "resumes" and get back to me

It's the same guy, Dr. Peter Dreier - way to show how well you read them.

B.A. from Syracuse University
M.A. from University of Chicago
Ph.D. from University of Chicago

He was a senior advisor to Ray Flynn.
He is a frequent speaker (and writer) on urban policy
 
It's the same guy, Dr. Peter Dreier - way to show how well you read them.

B.A. from Syracuse University
M.A. from University of Chicago
Ph.D. from University of Chicago

He was a senior advisor to Ray Flynn.
He is a frequent speaker (and writer) on urban policy


I guess you missed his activity as part of the Democratic Socialists of America

here is some more

http://keywiki.org/index.php/Cry_Wolf_Project
 
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