Ronald Reagan was a great president(True of False)

[Tiggeroshii]

[originalpckelly]

1. Oh he was the best...

of course that was in an alternate universe. Back here in reality he wasn't as great as people make him out to be.

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Of course he's great!

There's been billions of dollars spent over the last 20 years to make him great. Now you don't like to waste money, do you? So put those people's money to good use and join their alternate reality! :D

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

80. He was great at cocking his head to one side and smiling

I think he did that better than any other President.

[Imagevision]

3. Ronnie handled Iran/Contra like the actor he was, Reagan was an ongoing PR. event!!

[QMPMom]

He was a great joke on the American people and the world.

His presidency was the first time I was truly embarrassed as an American.

[thingfisher]

60. What about Nixon!!??

[QMPMom]

87. Nixon just made me angry. Reagan embarrassed me and made me angry.

[Vincardog]

4. BUT BUT BUT, He Acted like the best President ever. But he wasn't that good of an actor

[judaspriestess]

5. I was a teenager when he was president

BUT the fact that his initials equaled 666 seemed weird to me. So because of that I say false.
:)

[durtee librul]

6. I still have my bumper sticker

stating, "reagan is a liar" and I dutifully trot it out whenever they start jibber jabbbering about adding his face to Mt. Rushmore or some coin....

Guy was an f'g loser with a masochistic wife who made sure he changed his tightie whities everyday.....but ONLY if the astrologer told her she could.

Still ticks me off we had to sit thru an entire week of him getting his ass buried.....shoulda just dumped him off the cliff out there by the ranch with a 21 bb gun salute.

[originalpckelly]

7. Okay who voted yes?

:grr:

[Tiggeroshii]

9. I posted this with the theory that a few more DUers would say True

I hope I am wrong.

[sarge43]

8. Great presidents don't make jokes about nuclear war or

any war for that matter.

[sallyseven]

10. His raid on the disabled

was so outrageous that I hated him. People died because he was such a pig. People got knocked off the rolls because he didn't know what the hell he was talking about. People got put back on but some of them died in the meantime. Cancer victims, people unable to cope with mental illness killed themselves. I am glad he died and it is too bad he didn't suffer more.

[durtee librul]

24. How fitting it is

that he passed from a disease he cut the funding for.......couldn't agree with the above post more.

The guy was a loser and had NO business pretending to be prez.....just like the dummy we're stuck with now.

[Kahuna]

11. He was a heartless old creep. He also could tell lies almost

as good as chimpy.

[MrModerate]

18. Actually, given that he was capable of saying "Good Morning" . . .

without swallowing his tongue, he could tell lies *much* better than Schimpanski.

[sleepingdog]

12. Ronnie was....

A B-movie actor at best. HIs performance as a president stunk.

[Imagevision]

13. Reagan cut & ran after 270 marines got killed in embassy bombing

the next day he went on vacation in Santa Barbara, CA.

[ClintonTyree]

25. He wasn't scared of horses though......

unlike our current abject failure of a human being, George Bush. Compared to Bush, Reagan looks positively brilliant and he was a demented, doddering, old, washed up "B" movie actor. That doesn't say a whole lot about Bush now, does it? :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

42. Well, hell, the chimp has rehabilitated the entire repug party --

He makes Raygun look brilliant, Pappy look diplomatic, Ford look dextrous and Nixon look honest. Not to mention making Goldwater look rational...

[Art_from_Ark]

65. Maybe you're thinking of the marine barracks bombing in Beirut

that occurred on October 23, 1983. Two days later, Raygun saved the Western Hemisphere (to hear the right-wingers tell it) by invading Grenada and in the process "rescued" several American medical students before they had a chance to finish their studies.

[a la izquierda]

14. hah!

i wonder what thousands of Nicaraguans and Guatemalans think about Ronnie.

[ArbustoBuster]

15. He was very good at looking sincere.

He could look sincere even when he didn't know - or care - what the hell the speech he was giving meant.

He was a disaster of a president. He was one of the ultimate causes of Iran-Contra, and therefore he gave aid and comfort to our enemies. Under our Constitution, that makes him a traitor. I shed no tears when he wasted away and died; I was just sad it hadn't happened while he was in prison.

[thatsrightimirish]

16. Like Tip O'Neal said

He was a "Cheerleader for selfishness"

[liberaldemocrat7]

84. Ronald Oregano bizarro president.

Ronald Reagan looked like the bizarro creatures drawn in the Superman comics.

[TahitiNut]

17. He was marginally better than Millard Filmore.

:puke:

[acmejack]

21. You beat me, it's always a matter of relativity.

Compared to what?

[treestar]

19. This is a standard MSM meme from pre-internet days

They used to be able to control public opinion. So everybody was brainwashed with:

Carter was a good man but that makes for a weak president.
Reagan was tough and therefore effective.

When it was really:

Carter told the truth and we didn't like it, so
We elected Reagan who would tell us what we want to hear.

We are still paying for dodging reality so industriously.

[RaleighNCDUer]

43. Well, somebody elected Raygun.

I sure as shit didn't.

[porphyrian]

20. That man was a piece of shit who should've gone to prison.

If he hadn't been part of the bush/neocon plan, and if his mind hadn't been eaten away with disease, he would've gone down harder than Nixon.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

22. Ronnie Raygun was a great steward!

Of the Bush regime.

Another repug adding to Corporism.:puke:

[thingfisher]

61. If the assasination attempt

hadn't failed he would probably be greatly revered these days?! I think the Bush cabal was behind the attempt by the way.

[porphyrian]

78. Yeah, he was great, as long as you weren't a minority...

...or poor, or homeless, or had AIDS, or weren't Christian, or were Central American...

[nam78_two]

23. FALSE

Its my nightmare that someday people of my generation will have to suffer through hearing what a great president this "decider" moron was .....:banghead:

[Cameron27]

26. He was a con.

His folksy, down-home BS sure took the suckers in though. What a peach Nancy was too.

Blech.

[Stardust]

62. My exact sentiments. I thought he was phoney-baloney from the gitgo.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. Terrible governor, even worse president

"If you've seen one redwood you've seen them all." "If there has to be a bloodbath, then let's get it over with," directed to student protestors at Berkeley. I've never been able to forget that.

[timtom]

47. OMG! I was there then...

And leave us not forget, when UC Berkeley was losing tenured professors, his solution: "If you need more money sell your rare books collection."

[Art_from_Ark]

66. And of course, there was his famous musing about trees

causing more pollution than automobiles
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[baby_mouse]

28. Nominated as most naked attempt to generate a 100% one-sided poll....nt

[Minnesota_Lib]

29. You'd have gotten more of a debate if your question was if he was a good actor or not

:)

[kedrys]

30. Great mass murderer, maybe

Don't get me started about his refusal to acknowledge HIV/AIDS as a real and urgent NATIONAL health emergency... :grr:

[Auggie]

31. An empty suit who read off cue cards and made the rich richer.

[LeftishBrit]

32. I find it amazing that he's regarded as 'great' by ANYONE

He had a terrible agenda, made terrible choices for government posts, and had his foot in his mouth more often than not. He was also a great pal of Maggie, 'nuff said. His only excuse is that he was probably already in the early stages of Alzheimers when he was president.

[HughBeaumont]

33. Falser than a MAWfuck.

http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040618050418549">All yes voters can look here for the Rea-gone legacy. Thank you symbolman. Best flash ever.

[GreenTea]

55. !!

[LaPera]

34. The Reagan Myth - Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!

ALL Republicans & the media try to force the lie down America's throat... that it was simply Reagan who single-handily brought down the USSR...(Because Reagan has no other legacy for the sheep to hang on to).

It's insulting, to every other American president before Reagan, (and after)...Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford & Carter (and Bush Sr., as well)...ALL, increased military spending, (each year during their respective terms)...Carter for instance, increased military spending no less than 5% in each of his four years...as had all the other's increased spending...

In so much, the "Military Industrial Complex", I'm not defending here...

The Soviet Union could not keep pace with our military spending and Gorbachev knew it would be suicidal for his country to continue trying to keep up the madness & pace, with the US...

Not to mention the FACT that Reagan was long gone, out of office, when the Soviet Union actually threw in the towel in 1991, during Bush Sr. presidency... http://www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html

All Reagan has to show for his presidency is union busting, environmentally he was a disaster, corporate deregulation, destruction of equal time via the FCC, huge deficits, Grenada, (to change the story, after 230 US Marines were blown up by terrorist), Iran-Contra, the mentally disable thrown out into the streets, etc. etc...And the republicans are successfully distorting the facts.

Reagan, started this fascist corporate take over of America and so many voted for this republican liar and blindly & carelessly went along with the greed and selfishness...

It irks me to no end, how democrats, liberals, refuse to recall, nor speak the truth, the way the facts really are!

The republicans have to have someone to point to that's bigger that life...So they point to the old lying, senile "Gipper" as their hero, because he started deregulation and corporate fascism, and every single thing he did from breaking up the working man's unions to his lies and death's in Lebanon trying to pretend to be tough, to the background boys in his administration stupid made-up weekend war in Grenada to change the Lebanon story...Reagan was a complete phony. He was just a spokesman for the powers behind the scene (that are STILL there)that kill off Kennedy and his great liberal idea's & planned agenda the same assholes who gave us Nixon, Iran-Contra & Iraq & their new phony cowboy spokesman Monkeyboy Bush...

The republicans needed some symbol and chose another pretend phony cowboy puppet...Ronald Reagan, shoving him down our throats....

The facts the republicans always fail to mention are Reagan's gave us the largest tax increase on the poor & middle class in the history of this country, nor do they mention Reagan gave us the huge record deficits and the biggest government in our history as well.

I guess they figure if they repeat the lie enough times and change history books, they believe will be the truth!

Reagan was one of the worst in a long line of Republican greedy lying assholes!

[GreenTea]

54. You got it!

[Ian David]

35. I'll have to consult with my personal astrologer and get back to you on that. n/t

[Tatiana]

36. HELL NO he wasn't a great president! And who the F said "yes?"

Anyone remember trickle-down economics?

[dubykc]

63. That was "trickle-down"?

All this time I thought it was "trickled-ON".

[yurbud]

37. graded on a curve that includes Bush? He improves everyone's grade by comparison

Nixon is probably thanking him from the grave for making him look better.

[demosincebirth]

38. Ronald Reagan, didn't know he was, even, President.

[Annces]

39. Reagan has always been 2 steps ahead of me slashing funding

Slashing funding for forestry jobs.

Slashing funding for college loans.

I never could stand his sugary sweet rap.

[Bombtrack]

40. Silly liberals, he was a GREAT PRESIDENT

[Warren DeMontague]

49. .

:rofl:

[Zhade]

41. What kind of ignorance does it take to answer YES???

The man did horrific things!

[Blue_State_Elitist]

44. haha

How can you not be great when you have the ability to hide your own Easter eggs?

[Homer Wells]

45. Reagan was the Fantasy President

He was not a great president, he just played one on TV.

Typical of our modern society, all flash and no substance.

He was everyones kindly grand father, the "Aw Shucks" guy who carved the Thanksgiving turkey, and read us children "Twas the Night Before Christmas", but who was in reality just a tool used by the rich to increase their wealth.

[Vidar]

46. Second worst in my book.

[Warren DeMontague]

48. Good God. I smoked a lot of pot in the 80s.

But not THAT much!

[BringEmOn]

50. He was stupid before stupid was cool.

[understandinglife]

51. He was stupid before Bush made stupid the GOPers only core value.

:puke:

[terrya]

52. 4 people voted yes.

This is DU...not "Free Republic".

[GreenTea]

57. They don't have the guts to explain why...Just say & do what Limbaugh tells them to think!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

53. Second best drooling idiot ever to infest the White House.

The boob from Crawford has successfully surpassed the unsurpassable drooling idiot from Hollywood in sheer stupidity.

[hsher]

56. Enabler

If America has a sickness of the soul, Dutch was the greatest enabler ever.

[THUNDER HANDS]

58. his supreme court picks weren't horrible

I mean, they could have been worse. Was Bork his pick, or GHWBs?

[Art_from_Ark]

67. Officially, Bork was Reagan's baby

But who knows what the actual birth certificate says.

[indepat]

59. The Gipper was a great story-teller, but he ushered in irresponsible, if not insane, RW fiscal

and tax policies that were continued by Bush I and Bush II resulting in an almost seven-fold increase in the national debt in only a quarter of a century. As a result, the US might have to declare bankruptcy down the road and will most assuredly renege on its obligations, a la social security and Medicare. Americans might need wheelbarrows to haul the money necessary to buy a loaf of bread as happened in Germany in the '20s. :rant:

[spillthebeans]

64. Before or after Bush tried to assassinate him?

Hinckley's brother was scheduled to have supper with Bush's son the day after the assassination attempt, which struck Blumberg as ''the most remarkable assassination coincidence in the history of this country.''

The friendship between the Hinckley and Bush families goes back more than a decade to their shared conquest of the oilfields of Texas.


http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html



I think he was just an actor, not more

[canetoad]

68. Can't think of Reagan

without remembering this little gem from the 80's.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBNsp0_ssHw

[Selatius]

69. He was a war criminal who never got caught. n/t

[mnhtnbb]

70. Gee, only 8 freepers tonight?

[JeffR]

72. What scares the crap outta me is that not all those 8 might be freepers

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[madokie]

71. Wow, there is actually true votes

[Hissyspit]

74. Trolls. n/t

[MoseyWalker]

73. true of

questionable

[Lydia Leftcoast]

75. Reagan brought out the mean and dumb side of the American psyche

and it has never been completely suppressed since.

He was the jovial front for the same sociopaths who continue to ravage our country.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

76. Now do you mean Ronnie or Nancy?

I know Ronald was the official name, but I think you have to be more specific.

[left of center]

77. Republicans are now saying they need to be more like....

Reagan, that they should return to fiscal responsibility. That is odd considering there was nothing fiscally responsible about his policies. He was no different than modern Republicans who cut taxes but not spending, or even spend more!

[everythingsxen]

79. Of course he was great...

He was one of the greatest crooks this nation has ever seen. Treason, corruption, and a bunch of other stuff I probably don't know about.

[Initech]

81. Just like Bush, Regan surrounded himself with lackeys and yes men.

Enough lackeys and yes men that he could literally - and did - get away with murder (see Iran/Contra). His presidency, just like Bush's, was all just one big public relations event.

[boolean]

82. He is single handedly responsible for the "Republican Revolution"

Fuck him. He turned politics from issues to image. No substance whatsoever.

[NYC Liberal]

83. .

[HughBeaumont]

89. OK, that's like the scariest morph ever.

Like the flash above says: Bewsh 43 could never measure up to Reagan. Not even REAGAN could measure up to Reagan.

I have a rotten feeling historians are going to try and bullshit Lancelot Link's legacy the same way they did with Reagan, yet are going to have a far harder time doing it, considering he's not done ONE thing right in six years.

[AlienGirl]

85. Great at running up the national debt....great at cutting social programs...

[Unvanguard]

86. Utterly and completely false.

Ronald Reagan was a murderous butcher.

[B Calm]

88. This SOB started the war on the working class! Makes me sick

watching cons build this bastard legacy!