February 06, 2010
— Dave in Texas I am remiss in remembering this day.
Here's his first inaugural address, as a commemoration.
"We are too great a nation, to limit ourselves to small dreams."
Goddamn right.
The man could deliver a speech, couldn't he?
thanks for the reminder beedubya. And the vid tip via H2.
More: A compilation of his humor. Laughter is sweet, isn't it?
My personal fav though was this
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Two sentiments:
God Bless Ronald Wilson Reagan. May he live forever on that shining city on the hill and may we never forget him.
Hope he doesn't know about what Obama is doing or if he does, he comes back as a zombie to eat his brain.
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 01:03 PM (KUtjx)
Back in the day when we had Ronald Reagan as President we also had Johnny Cash and Bob Hope around to entertain us.
Now that we have B+rryO as Precedent, we also have no hope and no cash.
badabump!
Posted by: torabora at February 06, 2010 01:03 PM (lhqA2)
Posted by: B+rry Ob+mao at February 06, 2010 01:05 PM (lhqA2)
I'll be very interested in seeing how many times he says "I" and blames Carter.
My guess is there was very little of both. Very little.
Posted by: DrewM. at February 06, 2010 01:08 PM (9B5OK)
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 01:12 PM (KUtjx)
Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at February 06, 2010 01:13 PM (5xWaJ)
This is:
a) The inscription on a plaque President Reagan kept on his desk.
b) A thought Barack Obama is incapable of forming.
c) Both of the above
Happy Birthday, Mr. President. You are missed.
Posted by: Andy at February 06, 2010 01:17 PM (f1o8E)
Happy Birthday Mr. President. Thank You for keeping me safe as a child growing up from the threat of Soviet nuclear annihilation and bringing freedom througout the world . You never backed down from a fight and called 'em liked you saw 'em. We need your spirit now more than ever and you are sorely missed.
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 01:18 PM (t72+4)
I'm always thinking how he'd be turning in his grave from Odumbass.
Posted by: agnostica at February 06, 2010 01:21 PM (gbCNS)
Ditto. I can't stand to read the news these days either. I don't want to come up for air until Election Day 2012 when the Traitor and his Consort get fumigated out of the White House.
Posted by: arhooley at February 06, 2010 01:21 PM (HJuHu)
Posted by: LikeATimeBomb at February 06, 2010 01:24 PM (5xWaJ)
This is my favorite picture of President Reagan. He has a sort of mischievous sparkle in his eyes. A man's man, a real warm human being. Not the impostor we have now.
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 01:25 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: sybilll at February 06, 2010 01:27 PM (ykJls)
There won't be enough Orkin juice on the planet to do the job properly.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at February 06, 2010 01:28 PM (554T5)
"I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this Earth doing the things I have always done."
I used to be the just-shoot-me type. "If I ever get that way, just shoot me." "You have my permission: just shoot me." "I'd rather die than end my days as a drooling loon."
Then came June 5, 2004.
I had largely forgotten about Ronald Reagan since he'd told Americans in a hand-written note that he was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. Since that announcement, he had drifted into my consciousness from time to time, and each time I'd shudder to think of what Nancy must be going through. "The poor woman -- she must be a saint." On the day he finally died, he came rushing back to my mind with new meaning. One, I had given up on liberalism and begun to rethink everything I thought I knew about him. Two, it suddenly seemed like an eternity since that announcement; it stunned me to think of the man and his loved ones enduring ten years of his decline. Three, I got to thinking, if this guy could say farewell to his mind, his life, his memories, his knowledge, his ideas, his identity, all from the station of the recent presidency of the United States, then what the hell did I have to be so precious about? I of all people must be spared such indignity? Ronald Reagan could embark on a trip from Everest to hell, but I was too special to get pushed down the bunny slope?
Posted by: arhooley at February 06, 2010 01:28 PM (HJuHu)
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 01:28 PM (KUtjx)
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010
Let's hear it, moronettes. Does he moisten the mons like that Adam Whats-His-Name??
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 01:29 PM (AnTyA)
The guy was chopping his own firewood like a twenty year old and tending to his ranch in his mid-seventies on horseback. Where have all the cowboys gone indeed.
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 01:30 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: Vic at February 06, 2010 01:31 PM (QrA9E)
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
-Ronald Reagan
_____________________________________
So true Dutch!
Posted by: Fish at February 06, 2010 01:31 PM (M5t+h)
23 No, I see him more as a father figure, however, my mother had been in love with him since she was a teenager so I guess he has that piece.
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 01:33 PM (KUtjx)
I was a junior in highschool and pissed that I was too young to vote for Reagan. The teenage rage I felt at Jimmy Carter for screwing up the economy, making me unable to find a job... Odumbass Lite, he was.
Posted by: agnostica at February 06, 2010 01:34 PM (gbCNS)
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 01:34 PM (KUtjx)
I was a junior in highschool
Stupid me. I was a senior, and I missed voting by a few mere months.
Posted by: agnostica at February 06, 2010 01:37 PM (gbCNS)
This is my favorite Reagan picture. As Blazer said, a man's man.
Posted by: Andy at February 06, 2010 05:35 PM (f1o8E)
Excellent, I'm saving that.
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 01:37 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: B+rry Ob+mao at February 06, 2010 01:38 PM (lhqA2)
My memories of him are too intertwined with memories of my grandfather, who was the same age (like, three weeks older) and used to listen to him announce baseball games at WHO radio in Des Moines.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 06, 2010 01:38 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 01:40 PM (y4B2y)
Good.
Posted by: DelD at February 06, 2010 01:41 PM (eWtdM)
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 05:34
Relax. No disrespect intended. I have a very good friend whose grandparents (God rest their souls) met and befriended Reagan during his time in Iowa. They kept in contact with him and saw him often on a social basis. On summer vists to their farmhouse with my friend's family, they would entertain us with stories about Reagan.
According to them, he could be quite ribald himself. .....
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 01:42 PM (AnTyA)
Oh hell yes. Pres. Reagan is the original BAMF.
Posted by: alexthechick at February 06, 2010 01:43 PM (TtXKB)
Screw the Carters. Soulless, humorless holier-than-thou hypocrites. Remember Mrs. Carter's gracious comment about Reagan after they lost - "he makes people comfortable with their prejudices". Ah, what a Southern lady.
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 01:44 PM (y4B2y)
May I live long enough to see you become the 5th face on Rushmore.
I was/am proud to serve under you.
May we meet again.
Posted by: CPT. Charles at February 06, 2010 01:44 PM (lYKj1)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 06, 2010 05:38 PM
Wasn't a serious question...just a tweaking of the ladies for the comments a couple threads down
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 01:44 PM (AnTyA)
I miss voting for that man.
Posted by: Hank Hill at February 06, 2010 05:42 PM (4fofT)
Good times, good times.
Posted by: Alex P. Keaton at February 06, 2010 01:44 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 01:48 PM (7FgWm)
I just finished Halperin and whats-his-face's book Game Change, about the 2008 election. Forget the Edwards / Palin / Reid quotes. The thing that startled me most is that every one of the candidates (except Palin) talks like a stevedore. If you believe the book, the favorite word of McCain, Clinton, etc. is the f-bomb.
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 01:48 PM (y4B2y)
Posted by: agnostica at February 06, 2010 01:48 PM (gbCNS)
Posted by: ddiddly at February 06, 2010 01:50 PM (JXF5g)
Posted by: dagny at February 06, 2010 05:12 PM (KUtjx)
Six words:
Read my lips. No new taxes.
Posted by: Editor at February 06, 2010 01:51 PM (YX6i/)
I linked this earlier. I don't mind admitting that I welled up a bit. It just shows what a real and classy man he was..
...he was the polar opposite of the Thing that desecrates the Oval Office now
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 01:51 PM (AnTyA)
That book should be moved to the fiction section.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at February 06, 2010 01:51 PM (554T5)
May I live long enough to see you become the 5th face on Rushmore.
I was/am proud to serve under you.
May we meet again.
Unfortunately, there can't be a 5th face on Rushmore - there isn't any more rock face suitable for carving. But we can get rid of somebody... how about TR?
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 06, 2010 01:53 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 06, 2010 01:54 PM (OkT2m)
Absolutely. One mark of a leader is how they react at their worst moments. Exhibit A: The Iran-Contra scandal. Reagan went on national TV and took full responsibility for the actions of his subordinates. He didn't say:
- "Mistakes were made"
- "There's no controlling legal authority"
- "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is"
- "It's Bush's fault!"
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 01:54 PM (y4B2y)
Posted by: Retread at February 06, 2010 01:55 PM (Q4L/t)
Now that we have B+rryO as Precedent, we also have no hope and no cash.
badabump!
I am sooooo going to steal that!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 06, 2010 01:55 PM (Poe30)
Posted by: nyc redneck at February 06, 2010 01:56 PM (EtrGh)
Yeah. What the hell is he doing there anyway? Like they sing on Sesame Street: "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong"
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 01:57 PM (y4B2y)
Posted by: hutch1200 at February 06, 2010 02:00 PM (WGXpH)
50 ...he was the polar opposite of the Thing The Thing That Should Not Be that desecrates the Oval Office now
Very cool song but very lyrically fitting.
Posted by: agnostica at February 06, 2010 02:00 PM (gbCNS)
Yes, he could. The SRM still maligned this aspect of Reagan by dismissing Reagan's speech-giving abilities as "Reagan's just acting".
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 06, 2010 02:05 PM (otlXg)
He believed in our individual genius, to drag us back to prosperity.
he believed in us ..., americans
so much diffeent from what i've heard through this year.
that was what hope looks like.
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 02:05 PM (7FgWm)
Posted by: curious at February 06, 2010 02:09 PM (p302b)
B H Obama's America - Bitter clingers. World Apology Tour. Spread the wealth around. We suck.
Gee....such a choice.
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 02:09 PM (y4B2y)
I remember reading that some towns in VT ordered their flags to be flown at half-mast the day of His second inauguration....fuckheads
Reagan ended up being responsible, along with Thatcher and John Paul II, for freeing half a billion people..
...from the muderous tyranny of the regime that the Vermonters worshipped
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 02:09 PM (AnTyA)
He believed in our individual genius, to drag us back to prosperity.
he believed in us ..., americans
so much diffeent from what i've heard through this year.
that was what hope looks like.
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 06:05 PM (7FgWm)
Well said. Reagan uplifted Americans and believed in them. The narcissistic lump and poseur keeping the chair warm in the Oval Office for the time being chastises Americans and blames them for all of the worlds ills.
Posted by: Alex P. Keaton at February 06, 2010 02:10 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: Andy at February 06, 2010 02:10 PM (f1o8E)
- "Mistakes were made"
- "There's no controlling legal authority"
- "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is"
- "It's Bush's fault!"
-Corpse-man.
Posted by: Lt. Oddball at February 06, 2010 02:10 PM (Nu1ow)
Oh, how I miss Reagan! How blessed America was to have had him, and right at the time we needed him most. No man, no leader, is perfect - but Reagan was as close as we can hope to get in this life. I fear we will never again find his equal, and that sadens me.
I remember the day of his funeral procession in Washington D.C. It was incredible. It was sad that his loss was made "official" that day, though I suppose we lost him to that damn disease a while before. Yet at the same time it was inspiring to see so many turn out for him, and to see so many who were moved by his passing. My feelings for my fellow Americans were improved somewhat that day.
Posted by: Reactionary at February 06, 2010 02:12 PM (4nbyM)
Posted by: sandbagger at February 06, 2010 02:12 PM (KatTI)
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 02:13 PM (5Bf/7)
I still smile with pride when I recall voting for Reagan.
Posted by: Vashta.Nerada at February 06, 2010 02:14 PM (Ag6DW)
oooo where? I want to shut this down before it goes on all night.
Posted by: curious at February 06, 2010 02:15 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Barack Rules! at February 06, 2010 02:15 PM (d7Px0)
Posted by: katya at February 06, 2010 02:18 PM (L+haV)
MSM is mean to me!!!
Posted by: Barack is BotheredThis guy gets more like a cult leader everyday.
Posted by: sandbagger at February 06, 2010 02:21 PM (KatTI)
Curious i don't know how to link from another net thingy seperate page
Tea Party Convention Seems a Very Genteel Affair
@Time
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 02:24 PM (5Bf/7)
Posted by: Barack H. Obama at February 06, 2010 02:24 PM (xCF2m)
Of course from the AP, but what is up with that. It's Bachman and Blackburn. don't know much about blackburn but Bachman dropping out makes you concerned and you assume something funny is going on with the money.
Posted by: curious at February 06, 2010 02:25 PM (p302b)
Posted by: Harry Reid at February 06, 2010 02:26 PM (xCF2m)
The genteel atmosphere of the first day of the Tea Party convention was a far cry from the angry, raucous crowds usually associated with the right-wing protests
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 02:26 PM (5Bf/7)
One of my best friends, alas, a loony lib but I love her, and whom I've not been in contact with much since I moved out of crazy CA to just slightly less crazy WA, sends me really quite nice e-mails on the anniversary of his birthday and the anniversary of his death.
Posted by: TheresaD at February 06, 2010 02:27 PM (iGCmo)
was a far cry from the angry, raucous crowds usually associated with the right-wing protests,
hahahahahaha from right wing protests?
i hate the media
Posted by: willow at February 06, 2010 02:27 PM (5Bf/7)
Joe Wilson, you should have said "You Lie You Fucking Commie Rat Bastard" thats what I would have done, but I give you an A for effort
Posted by: The Ghost Of Ronald Reagan at February 06, 2010 02:27 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: DaveinWS at February 06, 2010 02:30 PM (3LJkJ)
Posted by: TheresaD at February 06, 2010 02:33 PM (iGCmo)
I'm kinda proud that I was born the year he was elected. We miss you, Reagan.
Posted by: Adlib at February 06, 2010 02:33 PM (nbXq4)
I remember Jimmy Carter, in his fucking cardigan, looking weak and small, telling us to turn our thermostats down, and whining about "malaise". I remember 17% interest rates, 10% unemployment, and odd-even days for buying gas. Carter's unmistakable message was "get used to it - the era of American Exceptionalism is over".
Then came this guy from California, with his sunny optimism and can-do spirit, saying "Nonsense. We're Americans. Our best days are ahead of us!" and then he went and proved it.
Now we have Jimmy Carter II in the White House, the new conductor on the America Sucks Express. I only pray that this generation's Reagan is waiting in the wings. America's future depends on it.
Posted by: Ombudsman at February 06, 2010 02:38 PM (y4B2y)
Posted by: CoolCzech at February 06, 2010 02:40 PM (QECjC)
Now we have Jimmy Carter II in the White House
Being as bad as Carter is more than we could ever possibly hope for with the incompetent asshole we have now
Posted by: beedubya at February 06, 2010 02:42 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: CoolCzech at February 06, 2010 02:44 PM (QECjC)
Reagan was the man. We need someone like him now. Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
Posted by: KR1 at February 06, 2010 02:44 PM (JVAYv)
Posted by: Reiver at February 06, 2010 02:49 PM (WvQhL)
My God, what has the Democrat Party come to? The Party of FDR and JFK has become the party of Carter and Obama. They've turned into a mortal threat to America, I swear.
Posted by: CoolCzech at February 06, 2010 06:44 PM (QECjC)
JFK, who is the Buddha of the Democrat party couldnt get elected as a Democrat today. Hell, he would have been to the right of GWB . Not to mention if he would have lived past 1963, he would have probably had his brother Teddy killed in his sleep.
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 02:51 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: sybilll at February 06, 2010 02:51 PM (ykJls)
But... but... Reagan didn't have Obama's sonorous baritone that inspires me to tell all conservatives to give it up, it's hopeless.
Allahpunter assures me that even if we could reanimate Reagan, the Dems would dig up JFK and we'd get hammered.
Everyone loves a wet blanket shaky conservative. Follow me to the camps boys, they play happy music for those who go quietly.
Posted by: Admiral Ed at February 06, 2010 02:52 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: Noah at February 06, 2010 02:52 PM (mhD2v)
The charlatan we have in office now can't be bothered to say anything good about the US, and he never wastes an opportunity to blame the problems of the world on his predecessors.
Posted by: The Other Shoe at February 06, 2010 02:55 PM (BP6H9)
We have to get away from the same failed policies of Jack Kent Cooke and the last eight years of Joe Gibbs........wait, what ? Who put that in there ? Barry ?
Posted by: Dan Snyder at February 06, 2010 02:58 PM (t72+4)
Reagan is remembered fondly, the streets and freeways were lined up with people even in blue California for his funeral procession. Nobody remembers the "kindly moderates", and no one really notices when they take that last ride.
Posted by: kbdabear at February 06, 2010 02:59 PM (sYxEE)
By 4:30 pm Sonoma Time, it was all over. No drama, no suspense--only joy
The polls were sill open in Calif and the western states, so the libs were screaming about 'voter supression' and they put in the new policy about not giving projections until the polls closed.
but in 1980, it was so sweet: 44 states. Reagan sliced like a hammer..........
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at February 06, 2010 03:00 PM (JrRME)
Posted by: Amused Observer at February 06, 2010 03:02 PM (EioPx)
I tell everyone that I'm a true blue fan of The Gipper, while lamenting at dinner parties that too many teabaggers take all that pride in America stuff too seriously. Ah, to be back when Nelson Rockefeller was the kind of Republican who knew his place.
Posted by: Peggy Noonan at February 06, 2010 03:04 PM (sYxEE)
#112, yep, he sure enough did. Back in 1988. Who'd a thunk that 13 years later we'd have crazed individuals commandeering planes and flying them into buildings and murdering over 3,000 people, and that we'd need to use such methods to get information so that more innocent Americans wouldn't die. I'm thinking RR would have approved.
Posted by: TheresaD at February 06, 2010 03:04 PM (iGCmo)
Jimmah conceded the election before those polls closed. The man was a fuckin' genius I tells ya
Posted by: kbdabear at February 06, 2010 03:05 PM (sYxEE)
We heard that Reagan had died when we were in the cab on our way to the airport, having just left our honeymoon cruise. Man, was I sad. It cast a pall on the rest of our trip home.
Help us, Zombie Reagan! You're our only hope!
Posted by: CMS2004 at February 06, 2010 03:06 PM (DlVI/)
Compare the profound substance of Reagan's speeches to the empty vapidity of Obama's. And let's not get started on the brazen lies.
Obama isn't worthy to be the assistant of a guy shining Reagan's shoes.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the African chick formerly known as african chick) at February 06, 2010 03:06 PM (Arbx7)
Obama isn't worthy to be the assistant of a guy shining Reagan's shoes.
Posted by: chique d'afrique (the African chick formerly known as african chick) at February 06, 2010 07:06 PM (Arbx7)
Double racist !
Posted by: Blazer at February 06, 2010 03:09 PM (t72+4)
Posted by: RushBabe at February 06, 2010 03:09 PM (LKkE8)
Posted by: sybilll at February 06, 2010 03:10 PM (ykJls)
Posted by: CMS2004 at February 06, 2010 07:06
FIFY
Posted by: The Idiot Who Desecrates the Memory of Reagan at February 06, 2010 03:13 PM (AnTyA)
Posted by: RushBabe at February 06, 2010 03:16 PM (LKkE8)
Posted by: RushBabe at February 06, 2010 07:16 PM (LKkE
I bet you that will be one of the themes of Palin's speech tonight.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 03:20 PM (NDj/7)
Posted by: CMS2004 at February 06, 2010 07:06 PM (DlVI/)
Ditto this. I was five when he was inaugurated...I can remember my mom, dressing me for kindergarten, and telling me that if Reagan didn't win, she'd dress me in all black the next day, haha.
I'd love to meet W. Hell, I'd take a job at the Crawford Ranch shining his boots every day if I could. And I'd be happy about it. Didn't think he was right about everything, but fully believe he's a good and honorable man who did what he thought was best, and got shit on for it.
Look forward to watching Blair on Phuckabee, just to see what he'll say about my W.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 03:24 PM (Ei3oZ)
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 07:20 PM (NDj/7)
So excited to watch that.
Am going to see her next month when she comes to speak for Ohio Right to Life. I plan on snatching front row seats. And wearing my Reagan shirt.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 03:25 PM (Ei3oZ)
Cool! Last time I saw her in person was at the Blaine, MN airport in September '08. She's coming back this spring to campaign with Michele Bachmann, and I'll definitely be going to see her.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 03:30 PM (NDj/7)
He loved Sinatra, Hollywood ice-skating musicals, and the appearance of his own reflection.
He made it cool to be a Republican.
God rest His Good Soul.
Posted by: Jackie "The Dutch Crutch" Kunkel at February 06, 2010 03:33 PM (m4Ulb)
Cool! Last time I saw her in person was at the Blaine, MN airport in September '08. She's coming back this spring to campaign with Michele Bachmann, and I'll definitely be going to see her.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 07:30 PM (NDj/7)
I met her on the book tour and we had a conversation about my Reagan shirt, so I plan on wearing the same one. 
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 03:40 PM (Ei3oZ)
Those days will be remembered as "P.T." - pre-TOTUS.
Posted by: TexasJew at February 06, 2010 03:41 PM (rl/bG)
Posted by: FishFearMe at February 06, 2010 03:41 PM (4YamK)
I was a nurse's aide for the President in Bel Air in the late 1990s. Good guy. Funny, too. I indulged him as much as I could, helping him pack suitcases full of bananas, and editing his many letters written to Bismark of Prussia urging the Kaiser to attack Denmark.
He loved Sinatra, Hollywood ice-skating musicals, and the appearance of his own reflection.
He made it cool to be a Republican.
God rest His Good Soul.
Posted by: Jackie "The Dutch Crutch" Kunkel at February 06, 2010 07:33 PM (m4Ulb)
If there is a God, he will slip a razor blade into the glass of water you keep on your night stand.
Posted by: Smudge's mom at February 06, 2010 03:41 PM (t72+4)
Reagan's Nashua Moment, otherwise known as Reagan's microphone moment.
This is a United States President. I don't know what the hell we have in the White House today.
Posted by: Crusty at February 06, 2010 03:45 PM (qzgbP)
He's mad because he lost his Obama butt-plug.
Posted by: Smudge's Brother at February 06, 2010 03:48 PM (jrlj0)
Posted by: NotAMolly at February 06, 2010 03:50 PM (ADJFU)
FIFY.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 06, 2010 03:50 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: Berserker at February 06, 2010 03:51 PM (gWHrG)
(I hope the link works)
Posted by: FishFearMe at February 06, 2010 03:52 PM (4YamK)
I was really young when Carter was in office and I remember having nightmares about komeni (sp?).... it was a depressing time... Christmas trees were up for a whole year in honor of the hostages. Then Reagan came along.. and it was truly morning in America. It was cool to be patriotic. His speech after the Challenger blew up, I will never forget where I was when he said 'they slipped off to touch the face of God'. He always said and did the right thing. Reagan was an awesome President. Where is the next Reagan?
Posted by: Kristi at February 06, 2010 03:57 PM (7GgDy)
God bless you Mr. President. I pray this nation will have a President someday with even just half of your philosophy, courage, wit, and humanity.
Posted by: Cheri at February 06, 2010 03:59 PM (llSaz)
Posted by: Kristi at February 06, 2010 07:57 PM (7GgDy)
I remember that, too - I was in 4th grade, and my teacher's brother had been second in line to go if Christa McAuliffe had to back out for any reason.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 04:05 PM (Ei3oZ)
Even CJ at LGF wants to be far lefter than Daily Kossak or that other dumbass whatshername.
Commie Johnson is even sucking up to Daryl Lamont Jenkins. The one who is labeling the address of conservative writers, radio, and TV people. The far left guy who supports cop killer Mumia Abu‐Jamal? Yeah, that guy. Whats next? They all join M.O.V.E.?
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at February 06, 2010 04:06 PM (pU4D7)
Where's WheresThe Rum? As I recall, she loved Ronnie, too.
Posted by: Tommy Gunnar at February 06, 2010 04:08 PM (rQTdM)
"and slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of
God". That was originally from a British poem about RAF pilots during the Blitz.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 04:10 PM (NDj/7)
I welled up watching these videos. How far we have fallen since the 1980s.
I honestly see no one out there in the political world today who could shine Reagan's shoes.
God, do I miss him.
Posted by: Marybeth at February 06, 2010 04:10 PM (zQoWP)
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
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Posted by: Andy at February 06, 2010 04:14 PM (f1o8E)
I was in 5th grade when it happened. I remember the entire class was in shock over it and the dumb bitch we had for a teacher acted like nothing happened.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 04:16 PM (NDj/7)
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Posted by: mghorning at February 06, 2010 04:19 PM (nfz/V)
Ron Reagan will be like a walmart greeter in Heaven, never too good to greet and shake hands with the little guy, not on a cloud, right there at the door.
Welcome home, pleased to meetcha pardner
Posted by: chimpy_hussein_mcBain at February 06, 2010 04:21 PM (DLaJY)
TR's place in history is secure. He was the guy who declared to the world the "USA is in the house" and we are a major player. He was right, we had come of age.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 06, 2010 04:23 PM (5ocil)
I welled up watching these videos. How far we have fallen since the 1980s.
Posted by: Marybeth at February 06, 2010 08:10 PM (zQoWP)
Yeah, I've watched Rendezvous with Destiny a few times, and always end up a teary mess.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 04:25 PM (Ei3oZ)
Would that our battle were successful. It still rages on, now with the good on the defensive, and the evil in ascendancy, and the fate of all nations on a precipice.
-Taq
Posted by: Taqiyyotomist at February 06, 2010 04:27 PM (ltfED)
Posted by: RobD at February 06, 2010 04:27 PM (wGIVf)
God". That was originally from a British poem about RAF pilots during the Blitz.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b+tard at February 06, 2010 08:10 PM (NDj/7)
I had no idea where that came from. Very cool.
Posted by: Kristi at February 06, 2010 04:29 PM (7GgDy)
Posted by: Holger at February 06, 2010 04:29 PM (8NGHm)
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 04:29 PM (Ei3oZ)
Posted by: mghorning at February 06, 2010 04:31 PM (nfz/V)
What a douchenozzle. I'd left Rockwell's Space Division a couple of years prior some time after STS-3 but prior to STS-4, but that day is one I'll never forget. Columbia was even worse -- Columbia was the one I worked on, it was very very personal and still is to this day. I'd met some of the crew on both those doomed flights when they were in Downey CA for various reasons in the early 80's
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 06, 2010 04:32 PM (5ocil)
Posted by: RobD at February 06, 2010 08:27 PM (wGIVf)
And I'm always humbled to have fine people like yourself serving to protect the likes of me. My upmost regards to you, Sir.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 04:32 PM (Ei3oZ)
The divisiveness of the Vietnam war was followed by the divisiveness of Watergate and the economic fumbling of Carter. Along came Reagan to share his belief in the ability of the American people and it felt as if a weight was lifted. People were suddenly ready and happy to roll up their sleeves, literally and figuratively, and get to work. Instead of lecturing us, he inspired us.
Posted by: Retread at February 06, 2010 04:33 PM (Q4L/t)
I've got front row seats for a Palin speech on Monday afternoon. She is taking questions afterwards. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Zombie-droid 37542 at February 06, 2010 04:38 PM (C39a6)
Posted by: Holger at February 06, 2010 04:41 PM (8NGHm)
In a completely unrelated topic, this deserves a thread.
Hannah Giles responds to some Bob Beckel dude, who called her a "Ho" on national television:
http://tinyurl.com/y97toy2
Link to Iowntheworld dotcom.
This might just be the smackdown of the year. Hannah Giles, True Grit Reporter, vs. Bob Beckel, Out Of His Effin' League. Just because you all tried to kill the art of investigative reporting doesn't mean that the art is lost. You thought the art was lost, (you were pretty cocksure, don't you think?) but as you've now just discovered, it has been found again by folks who are not cowards like yourselves and are willing to use this art when it is needed. You're looking at the new Jedi now, Bob. They will be a thorn in your side, I pray - a very painful one.
Posted by: Taqiyyotomist at February 06, 2010 04:41 PM (ltfED)
Posted by: RobD at February 06, 2010 04:43 PM (wGIVf)
Yeah, I've watched Rendezvous with Destiny a few times, and always end up a teary mess.
I have that one too. Great DVD, even if it was produced by Newt "Dede" Gingrich
Posted by: Marybeth at February 06, 2010 04:45 PM (zQoWP)
Remember the 'miracle on ice' 2-22-80... ya just knew it was going to be a great decade after that. The 80's were a great time. God Bless Ronald Reagan. What a great time it was to be an American. Reagan didnt apologize to the world for America. I cast my first vote for Bush 41.. and have never voted for a democrat in my life.. thanks to Reagan!
Posted by: Kristi at February 06, 2010 04:46 PM (7GgDy)
@169
I was ten years old for that election and remember how unhappy my liberal, government employed parents were. I couldn't understand how anyone could support Carter even as a young 'un. Then in HS I worked as an intern for a Dem Representative (during the Ollie North testimony) and they called me "the Republican spy."
I'm proud to say that I was always conservative even when my family wasn't. Isn't. Still.
Posted by: NC Ref at February 06, 2010 04:50 PM (OhdlH)
http://tinyurl.com/yb3lwra
Yup, the new Jedi. The MSM doesn't really know who they're f*in with, becuase, as I said, they think the art of investigative journalism is dead because they think they remember killing it slowly over the last 40 years, and delivering what they thought was the deathblow these last couple of years..
A New Hope FTW MFERS! I'm tellin' you....
Posted by: Taqiyyotomist at February 06, 2010 04:53 PM (ltfED)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 06, 2010 04:57 PM (GWXuo)
Most of my family are Dems, too. Most, but not all, fortunately. I like to annoy one brother in particular by recommending he read certain books since he claims to be interested in history. I think I'll recommend Reagan: A Life In Letters, again, when I see him next.
Posted by: Retread at February 06, 2010 04:58 PM (Q4L/t)
Posted by: bluetick at February 06, 2010 05:00 PM (N/FwX)
Retread - yeah I recommend various books I've read to my family too. But they don't want to become racist by reading that stuff......
/sarc
Posted by: NC Ref at February 06, 2010 05:02 PM (OhdlH)
Behold His works. True, the recession ended three month's before His innauguration, He tripled the nat'l debt in less than five years, gave Beirut to Hezbollah, sold weapons to the Ayatollah in order not free a few hostages, expanded the size of the federal government by 60%, and armed and trained Osama bin Laden to murder Americans.
But He invaded Granada, and He won!
Posted by: Jackie at February 06, 2010 05:03 PM (m4Ulb)
I expect a vile retort from my evil twin brother.
Posted by: mghorning at February 06, 2010 05:09 PM (nfz/V)
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Posted by: Editor at February 06, 2010 05:12 PM (YX6i/)
Posted by: polynikes at February 06, 2010 05:12 PM (h8A/6)
Posted by: Editor at February 06, 2010 09:12 PM (YX6i/)
Well, not RINOs per se...Scott Brown certainly isn't a RINO, but he's not 100% conservative either - but he damn well deserved our support for what we did agree on.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 05:13 PM (Ei3oZ)
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 05:16 PM (Ei3oZ)
Especially the catty/bitchy men.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 06, 2010 05:16 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: polynikes at February 06, 2010 05:17 PM (uh366)
Indeed! The democrat congress, from which all spending bills originate, had nothing to do with that.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 06, 2010 05:19 PM (5ocil)
Earlier today a sent out a "Save the date" email to about a dozen close friends telling them I will be hosting a 100th birthday party for Reagan on the evening of Sat. Feb 5, 2011. (Yes, I know his birthday is the 6th but that Sunday will be the Superbowl and I felt Ronnie deserved his own party with no competition for attention.)
Posted by: ratskeller at February 06, 2010 05:19 PM (zVVam)
Posted by: KZnextzone at February 06, 2010 05:30 PM (s0ipZ)
expanded the size of the federal government by 60%,
Proof? And I thought you libs loved bigger government, (unless it's for the military). Wait, could that be what you're talking about?
and armed and trained Osama bin Laden to murder Americans.
*bzzt*, wrong, jackass! bin Laden's group was financed by the Pakistanis. He wouldn't have anything to do with the Americans, even had we offered.
But He invaded Granada, and He won!
The students in that US medical school in Granada did care that "He won". Besides, ergie, I'll bet you've never heard of the Brezhnev Doctrine. I'll help you, it's basically "once a country becomes Communist, it stays Communist". After the US kicked out the Russian and Cuban "construction workers" (who had machine guns, I didn't know that was part of a typical construction worker's equipment!), Granada went back to an English-style democracy. Thus the Brezhnev Doctrine was then invalid.
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 06, 2010 05:30 PM (otlXg)
Cuba awaits you. Enjoy your socialist paradise.
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 05:33 PM (Ei3oZ)
There's a national holiday in Granada now to commemorate the date of the invasion. Its called Thanksgiving day. They know they dodged a bullet when we invaded.
The USA was actually getting along OK with Bishop even though he was nominally a communist. The invasion was triggered by the Austin/Coard hardline Marxist coup against the Bishop government (and Bishop's subsequent execution by that group).
Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 06, 2010 05:40 PM (5ocil)
Posted by: Pavel at February 06, 2010 06:02 PM (j7FC6)
Posted by: Jackie "The Dutch Crutch" Kunkel at February 06, 2010 06:05 PM (m4Ulb)
#159 The author Bradley who wrote 'Flags of our Fathers' just did 'The Imperial Cruise'. It is a wicked hatchet job on Theodore Roosevelt. I thought it to be over the top.
Mind you also that Teddy was a 'Progressive' and he campaigned for universal health care long before FDR got Social Security. He wasn't a 'Republican'.
Posted by: torabora at February 06, 2010 06:08 PM (lhqA2)
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Posted by: torabora at February 06, 2010 10:10 PM (lhqA2)
LOL win!
Posted by: tdpwells at February 06, 2010 06:17 PM (Ei3oZ)
Posted by: Jackie at February 06, 2010 06:17 PM (m4Ulb)
Yeah, you got us there, ergie. Reagan was such a big fan of Saddam that he stopped the Israelis from bombing Osirak and gave lots of American tech and arms to Saddam.
/Wait, you mean that Reagan didn't stop (or even condemn) the Israeli strike and that the Russians and French actually supplies the vast bulk of Saddam's arms?
Posted by: Kratos (on the back of Gaia, scaling Mt Olympus) at February 06, 2010 06:25 PM (otlXg)
Posted by: Dave in Singapore at February 06, 2010 06:25 PM (OBDWE)
Posted by: Dancing on Jackie's grave at February 06, 2010 06:30 PM (gbCNS)
Don't be too down.
Reagan planted seeds too.
You saw them tonight, in Nashville.
True greatness never fades,
though a thousand years may pass.
[me, I guess. 2010]
Posted by: CPT. Charles at February 06, 2010 09:28 PM (lYKj1)
In about a month Grandma received a very nice card and note in Reagan's handwriting wishing her a happy joint birthday and noting that although many were born on that same day, not many of them were left and it was nice to have someone to share it with [not exact, but the gist from memory]. A very gracious man.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie at February 06, 2010 09:34 PM (290l2)
He was on the campaign trail, and stopped off at our small mall in Richardson, Texas. The teachers said we could leave school to go and hear him speak. My whole senior class went, and then I had the idea to go around back and try to meet him before he left.
The local press was clogged all around his cars, so I scooted my little 4'10" self through the crowd right as he was about to get into his motorcade. I reached out my hand to him and he looked down at me and I said "I sure hope you become President", and he smiled at me and said(in Reagan's cute voice) "Well, I hope so too"
It was so stupid what I said, when I think about it now, but I will never forget his impressive stature, his rosy cheeks, and his genuine smile.Thank you President Reagan...I hope to see you again, one fine day!
Posted by: astratt at February 06, 2010 10:49 PM (IAsmR)
Posted by: Carl Bone at February 07, 2010 03:00 AM (Qc93O)
Something I wrote on my blog in tribute:
I can say unequivocally that President Reagan not only helped America believe in itself again, but he brought pride in the military back into fashion. I had the misfortune of suffering though the likes of Carter and Clinton, who did their damnedest to eviscerate everything we stand for. I truly feel sorry for the troops who must now endure the socialist milksop B. Hussein Obama.
President Reagan was one of this country’s most dedicated leaders in the midst of tragedy and liberal policies that vilified anything remotely patriotic. Leftwing nuts glorified those who would have gladly subjugated the entire planet to a communist totalitarian regime, and continued that “fine” tradition by spewing hatred for George W. Bush, while Islamofascists get Valentines. The sick little miscreants use their newspaper columns, radio programs and websites to regurgitate their venom and malevolence toward America.
Ronald Wilson Reagan personified everything that is abhorrent to the left: integrity, courage, ethics, and love of country. Instead, they fawn over the nihilist assclowns in the Democratic Party who tear at the fabric of this country.
Such is the modern philosophy of the Democrats, who have leaned so far to the left that they make Lenin look like a Republican.
ItÂ’s so good to watch old clips of Reagan and realize that he never gave up on America, even when Jimmy Carter had run it into the ground and told the next generation that the American Dream was dead.
The greatest tribute and legacy of Ronald Reagan is something that no longer exists: The Berlin wall. When he challenged Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” he set forth the spirit and force of freedom in Eastern Europe that could no longer be denied.
His staunch support of the nation and its military will forever be remembered and treasured by this grateful Soldier.
Rest easy Mr. President.
Duty, Honor, Country
SFC MAC
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