Enlighten Me! :)
"A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist." - Ronald Reagan
Yeah, I cried when his funeral was on TV.I don't know if he was the best president ever, but he was up there in my book.
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Readan
He was awesome! I have a list of Reaganisms to live by. The fave "Here's my srategy to the Cold War: We win, they lose."
I wish we could find another RR. We could sure use one.....
Great President. My personal Fave.
Definitely one of the best ever! Right up there with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln!
Come on fwd, nothing trollish to say? No words of great wisdom for the unwashed? Hello? Anybody home?
No doubt - Reagan and George Washington have done more to guarranty the future of America than anyone.
I have nothing against Reagan.... Well aside from a couple of bad choices in neckties.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Reagan, but I'd take Teddy Roosevelt first (of course, after Washington).
geez, jimmyb, i was gonna put a picture of him on my blog yesterday, too! i wanted to go to washington when they had him 'laying in state' too. but kev & i settled for watching his funeral on tv..& yes, we both cried! (shhh)
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!
RR was not only a great president, he was a very caring human being.
Greatest president in my lifetime and I go back to Truman.
Thanks Jimmyb. Seeing Reagan's smiling face always brightens my day.
Ronald Reagan was stupid, and so everything he did while in office was stupid.
But he was not alone.
Jimmy,
I also believe he was the greatest president ever. I miss him too.
Thanks for sharing that pic.
I suspect Sofocleto would have been comfortable in a Stalinist gulag.
Someone once said that Reagan would make up his mind about something, sit and listen while everyone else around him argued, then state his case and it was usually the best idea.
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'" --Ronald Reagan 01/28/86
I cannot hear that last line without getting choked up.
Every time that GWB opens the publics wallet for another spendfest, or promotes someone based on cronyism rather than qualities .... I miss Reagan even more.
Yes. What a great man he was:
The Iran-Contra Affair (also known as "Irangate") was a mid-1980s political scandal in the United States.
President Ronald Reagan's administration sold arms to Iran, an avowed enemy. At the time, Americans were being held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon, and it was hoped that Iran would influence the terrorists to release the hostages; at the same time, Iran, which was in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War, could find few nations willing to supply it with weapons.
The U.S. diverted proceeds from the sale to the Contras, anti-Communist guerrillas engaged in an insurgency against the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Both the sale of weapons and the funding of the Contras violated stated administration policy as well as legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled Congress, which had blocked further Contra funding.
You're right, Sofa.
He was a great man.
Yeah, stupid, evil leftist Dems always want to help commies.
However, I almost get the feeling you think the contra thing was bad.
I'm probably just paranoid...
To give credit where it is due: The beautiful lines "slipped the surly bonds of earth..." "to touch the face of God" come from a glorious little poem called "High Flight," written by John Gillespie McGee, Jr., who died serving as a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII.
...sofo...are you saying you wish jimmy carter would've been president again?
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!
Two things made Reagan a great president: 1. He surrounded himself with cabinet members who knew what they were doing and mostly listened to them and then delivered his scripted material with the aplomb of an actor and 2. His wife pushed all his buttons.
Sorry, but as much as I love Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt will always have my vote first.
GO, TR!
I was born during the second Reagan administration, and I consider myself proud to be what I call a "Reagan baby!"
I have studied this man and his work. God truly blessed America when he loaned us President Reagan. He stood for, and continues to stand as the epitome of the American way.
He passed the torch to us, and it will be my generation (I'm only 20 after all!) that hopefully will continue to light this great city on a hill.
Preach it, Brother Steve!
But it should read "second Reagan term." "Second Reagan Administration" implies that more than one Reagan served.
I doubt there will ever be "another Reagan," however.
(And go TR, AGAIN!)
I knew it wasn't Reagan's words, that's why I put it in separate quotes, but it was still very moving for such a solomn occasion.
Thank you, though, for the poem's title and the author's name, Mama.
"Ronald Reagan was stupid, and so everything he did while in office was stupid."
By, Sofa's reasoning, Reagan's appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor was "stupid." Yeah, putting a broad on the SCOTUS was idiotic.
Regarding Sofa's comment: "Stupid is as stupid does, so who really is the "stupid" one here?
No amount of stupid comments can ever take away Reagan's legacy, or our love and respect for him. He earned every bit of it! Great picture!
Well Gayle, while the verdict is still out on this one, I would feel confident in saying that the gold medal in the "stupid" event would have to go to the contestant that quotes Forrest Gump.
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