I remember Reagan

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

the man who ignored aids

Iran-Contra

Our fake war with Grenada

The original era of the "greed is good" and "I Got Mine" gestalt (for insight watch almost any movie of that era)

trickle down economy

Nancy's extorted wardrobe

the family values guy who didn't tell his second marriage kids about the first marriage kids

Defining book of his Pesidency - Sleepwalking Through History by Johnson.


Isn't it ironic that the Republicans define this as their Golden Age of Pericles?

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Well, there you go again....

eh, eh, eh, eh....

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Wait until they start defining the * 43 years the same way...

:scared:

I also remember it all well.

[blm]

30. That was EXACTLY the point I made on another thread. Bush2 will have next administration

coverup for his crimes of office, GOP or Dem, just as Bush1 had Clinton do for him.

It is long PAST time the Democratic party starts supporting it anti-corruption, open government lawmakers and STOP coddling the Coverup wing of the party.

[Catchawave]

3. Cut and Run in Beirut too

after we lost several hundred Marines to "terra".

[snappyturtle]

4. Also he was the beginning of destroying unions. Champ

of the rich!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

7. Ronald Reagan Airport -oh the irony!

Naming an airport after the guy who brought down the air traffic controllers. It's like naming an AIDS Hospice after him.

[silverojo]

8. I'd be LMAO at that remark

Except I'm too busy crying. That evil bastard Reagan!! :mad:

[snappyturtle]

15. Yes, it is an irony.....and these repukes just lap him up!!! nt

[frogcycle]

5. i hated that smirking bastard too

[SharonAnn]

23. He made me leave the Republican Party and become a Democrat.

He made "Republican" an odious word to me.

And it still is, though it has become worse.

[Vickers]

34. Me, too. He totally ruined the whole fucking party, and tried to ruin

the country.

He was a spineless, bumbling idiot.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. He said " I don't recall more than Gonzales".

[silverojo]

9. Don't forget these all-important memories

Mentally ill being thrown out onto the streets

Homelessness increasing in record numbers

Senior citizens eating dog food, just to survive



My flesh still crawls every time I see a photo of that loathsome, evil, bastard and his clown-painted jackal wife.

[deminks]

10. St. Ronnie. Ronnie Rayguns.

Busted the air controllers and American unions thereafter.

Destroyed mental health care, closed all the hospitals. Literally put the mentally ill in the streets and under the bridges.

He was an old white actor. The people under him were not able to destroy America then, but they are in charge now and just might accomplish it.

[AX10]

21. Exactly! Bush is finishing what they started.

Reagan did not have the house on his side and still there were moderate/liberal Republicans. They are now an extinct speicies. Bush had it all including the media and a ton of religious nuts to boot.

[benny05]

11. And I don't miss

his presidency what so ever.

[polichick]

12. Nancy's JUST SAY NO campaign!

That always made me laugh, since the White House was filled with booze during the Reagan years.

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[Hart2008]

14. While Bush the VP was importing drugs to fund the Contras. n/t

[illinoisprogressive]

13. I remember railing through the 80s and trying to figure out why people liked Reagan

[hollowdweller]

16. Random drug testing was also brought about during his Era

[zulchzulu]

17. Check out this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBx5-alXisY

[liberal renegade]

18. correct me if I'm wrong

but weren't jobs awfully scarce during the Reagan years?

[femmocrat]

22. You betcha! That was the beginning of the "rust belt"...

all the factories closing, people losing their livelihoods and homes. I don't have the figures, but there were so many foreclosures that there was a non-profit group created here (Pittsburgh area) just to try to save the homes of steelworkers.

It was also a time of generic brands, food banks, and free cheese.

[LeftishBrit]

29. Like here under Maggie

She basically destroyed the British industrial base, especially mining and the steel industry.

I'm still so bitter against her, and him too. Between them, they did a lot to make the world a harsher, nastier place.

[HughBeaumont]

31. They were even more scarce during 41's years, hard as that is to believe.

I graduated junior college in 1991 to NOTHING. It wasn't just a hiring freeze; companies from small to large weren't even taking resumes because they had little work for the people that were already there. I'd look in and there'd be rows of empty cubes and not a whole hell of a lot going on with the people that survived the job slaughter. You can thank Ray-gone's disastrous policies for that one as well. My dad had it shitty during most of Woodenhead Reagan's two terms of suck.

[femmocrat]

19. I still cringe when I hear his name....

and I can't stand they way they idolize him.

Don't forget, "Ketchup is a vegetable" and "Trees cause pollution"!

I really think he had Alzheimer's while in the WH and was totally unaware of what was going on for most of his second term. I wish someone would write a real tell-all book on his presidency, but it would never get published.

[mth44sc]

20. Raygun gave us the Bush legacy

That about says it all

[orpupilofnature57]

25. No Poppy , gave him that, and we helped.

[Birthmark]

24. Reagan -- The lord high Conservative

- who tripled the National Debt in just eight years.


Honestly, Republicans will believe anything that makes them feel better.

[orpupilofnature57]

26. Bonzo's Lackey nothing more.

[Norrin Radd]

36. And he went to bed earlier than Bonzo. n/t

[Perry Logan]

27. The Corruption Quotient

Besides committing treason to get elected, the Reagan people were incredibly corrupt--as measured by the total number of convictions and enforced resignations within the administration. I call this number "The Corruption Quotient."

By this measure, Ronald "Death Squad" Reagan's administration was by far the most corrupt in American history. (The current group is even worse, but since George W. Bush is not really President, he gets off on a technicality.)

It's sad that wingers cling to their dream that Reagan was a great President. There is no possibility that the President heading up the most corrupt administration in U.S. history was great--or even half-decent. Reagan will be remembered for slaughtering thousands of innocent people in Central and South America, and for causing money to hemorrhage out of the country at history-shattering rates. And for committing treason to get elected.

While we're at it, we might as well ask how the much-maligned Clinton Administration stacks up on the Corruption Quotient.

As measured by the number of convictions and forced resignations of its members, the Clinton Administration was the cleanest two-term administration since Teddy Roosevelt--the least corrupt administration of the 20th century.

The Reagan Administration would sometimes rack up more convictions and forced resignations IN A SINGLE DAY than the Clinton Administration managed in its entire eight years! This illustrates how dangerously delusional right-wingers are.

[LeftishBrit]

28. Maggie's best pal (need one say more!)

The man who propped up Latin American dictators; supported the apartheid regime in South Africa; and helped to build up the forerunners of the Taliban.

His only redeeming feature seemed to be that he spent much of his time asleep.

[LongTomH]

32. Reagan and the Baby Skulls

If you want a really graphic example of the impact of Reagan Administration policies in Central and South America, try this Robert Parry article: Reagan and the Salvadoran Baby Skulls

Parry had the right idea for a memorial at Ronald Reagan International Airport:

Ronald Reagan’s many admirers may find this idea offensive, but – given a new report by the Washington Post – it might be fitting to have a display at Reagan National Airport to show how Salvadoran baby skulls were used as candle holders and good luck charms. Perhaps the presentation could contain skeletal remains of Guatemalans and Nicaraguans, too.

It might be modeled after skeletons on display in Cambodia from the slaughters by the Khmer Rouge. After all, it was President Reagan – more than any other person – who justified and facilitated the barbarity that raged through Central America in the 1980s, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of peasants, clergy and students, men, women and children.

God have mercy upon everyone who voted for him, and for the rest of us for letting it happen!

[PaDem]

39. Would you recommend Parry's books?

I've never read any of his works, but would like to.

[LongTomH]

40. PaDem, I read Parry's articles every time I find one

I've got his books on my "must read" list.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Remember catsup/ketchup as a vegetable?

Eat up, kiddies! :eyes:

I hate that m.f.in' Reagan with a passion. :grr:

[ArkySue]

35. You forgot....

He did away with the Fairness doctrine in the media...you know, the equal time thingy. I knew at the time that was going to be bad news. Ugh.

[joshdawg]

37. I remember reagan

when he played/acted opposite Bonzo. I could hardly tell one from the other.

[Hersheygirl]

38. What I remember about Reagan

is that he fell asleep through most of his meetings while someone else ran the show. Sound a little familiar, Bush may not be falling asleep, but someone else is running the show.