What Do You Think of Ronald Reagan?

bradleybadly · Post by **bradleybadly** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:35 pm

suggs wrote:Reagan had nothing to do with the fall of Communsim.

yeah it was all due to Gorbachev and how much he loved peace

Dancing Mustard · Post by **Dancing Mustard** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:39 pm

bradleybadly wrote:yeah it was all due to Gorbachev and how much he loved peace

[size=0]What's that? 'Bait an angry conservative time' you say? Well here goes:[/size]Yes, yes it was. His diplomacy in the face of American War-Mongering and Covert Sabotage was astonishing. If it weren't for the USA controlled media machine that, to this day, holds the world in its sway, then we'd remember him as an equal to Ghandi... maybe even greater than him, who knows?

Curmudgeonx · Post by **Curmudgeonx** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:50 pm

Where is the poll option for "Doddering old fool that the ego-centric baby-boomers voted in because they wanted their granpa to make them feel better about themselves and their plastic fucking grab-all you can life . . "?

suggs · Post by **suggs** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:18 pm

Curmudgeonx wrote:Where is the poll option for "Doddering old fool that the ego-centric baby-boomers voted in because they wanted their granpa to make them feel better about themselves and their plastic fucking grab-all you can life . . "?

You're a GENIUS.

Elijah S · Post by **Elijah S** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:29 am

Following the Carter years, during which we saw massive inflation and the taking of American hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan restored a sense of national pride.
And, for the record, Gorbachev was a tremendous figure in history, but the Cold War was between 2 different ideologies and as I recall, The Soviet Union spent billions maintaining and adding to what was a fucking lot of strength and Nukes. -Basically, The United States didn't have the Cold War alone.
Ultimately, a contributing factor to the disolvement of the Soviet Union was that it could no longer afford to finance it's war machine.
Also, Communism failed to generate much of a middle class, instead creating a greater division between the "haves" and "have nots".

Ronald Reagan, like him, hate him, was a great President whose rightful place in history won't be at all tarnished by the comments of a few attention-deprived wannabe intellectuals in a Conquer Club Forum.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:32 am

Elijah S wrote:Ronald Reagan, like him, hate him, was a great President whose rightful place in history won't be at all tarnished by the comments of a few attention-deprived wannabe intellectuals in a Conquer Club Forum.

That includes you I guess..

Elijah S · Post by **Elijah S** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:16 am

Skittles! wrote:
Elijah S wrote:Ronald Reagan, like him, hate him, was a great President whose rightful place in history won't be at all tarnished by the comments of a few attention-deprived wannabe intellectuals in a Conquer Club Forum.
That includes you I guess..

Sure "Skittles", whatever you say big guy...

Iliad · Post by **Iliad** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:08 am

Elijah S wrote:
Skittles! wrote:
Elijah S wrote:Ronald Reagan, like him, hate him, was a great President whose rightful place in history won't be at all tarnished by the comments of a few attention-deprived wannabe intellectuals in a Conquer Club Forum.
That includes you I guess..
Sure "Skittles", whatever you say big guy...

Nice great work on refuting his post and proving a intellectual post

richardastley · Post by **richardastley** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:34 am

Ronald Reagan was the second best part of the 80s.

DaGip · Post by **DaGip** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 3:36 am

richardastley wrote:Ronald Reagan was the second best part of the 80s.

The first part was all that damn cocaine!

radiojake · Post by **radiojake** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:33 am

DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.

Frigidus · Post by **Frigidus** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:47 am

radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.

I love how that guy thought that he could just walk up and start talking. "Excuse me President ReagAN, AH, PRESIDENT REAGAN!"

Grooveman2007 · Post by **Grooveman2007** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:18 pm

Frigidus wrote:
radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.
I love how that guy thought that he could just walk up and start talking. "Excuse me President ReagAN, AH, PRESIDENT REAGAN!"

I love how he thinks Reagan will listen after he hits him with a chunk of glass.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:49 pm

Decent at best. More jobs made by Clinton, more anti-Commie effort made by LBJ.

Napoleon Ier · Post by **Napoleon Ier** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 5:49 pm

Grooveman2007 wrote:
Frigidus wrote:
radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.
I love how that guy thought that he could just walk up and start talking. "Excuse me President ReagAN, AH, PRESIDENT REAGAN!"
I love how he thinks Reagan will listen after he hits him with a chunk of glass.

I bet that guy was radiojake

Frigidus · Post by **Frigidus** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:30 pm

Napoleon Ier wrote:
Grooveman2007 wrote:
Frigidus wrote:
radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.
I love how that guy thought that he could just walk up and start talking. "Excuse me President ReagAN, AH, PRESIDENT REAGAN!"
I love how he thinks Reagan will listen after he hits him with a chunk of glass.
I bet that guy was radiojake

Seemed more like xtra to me. Crazy to the point of breaking shit, big hobo-beard, won't stfu about his incorrect ideas...yup, that was xtra.

Neoteny · Post by **Neoteny** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:24 pm

radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.

I have qualms with this statement. I think your sarcasm is a bit unwarranted. There are mechanisms involved to express your opinion. Assaulting a political figure is not normally a culturally accepted one, though I'd say he got his point across fairly well.

Guiscard · Post by **Guiscard** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:48 am

Neoteny wrote:
radiojake wrote:
DaGip wrote:Check out this protester that snuck up behind Reagan as he was giving a speech:

"Exuse me, President Reagan, but...(uhhhh!)"

Funny stuff!

Hmmm, clearly the right of freedom of speech was well and truly demonstrated that day.
I have qualms with this statement. I think your sarcasm is a bit unwarranted. There are mechanisms involved to express your opinion. Assaulting a political figure is not normally a culturally accepted one, though I'd say he got his point across fairly well.

unriggable · Post by **unriggable** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:56 am

FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:59 am

unriggable wrote:FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.

McKinley? Wasn't exactly great..

Frigidus · Post by **Frigidus** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:04 pm

Skittles! wrote:
unriggable wrote:FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.
McKinley? Wasn't exactly great..

True that. How about Teddy Roosevelt? FDR? They rocked so hard people died, and they weren't assassinated per say. Unless you count polio as an assassin.

Grooveman2007 · Post by **Grooveman2007** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:12 pm

unriggable wrote:FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.

There was an attempt on Reagans life.

spurgistan · Post by **spurgistan** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:12 pm

Grooveman2007 wrote:
unriggable wrote:FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.
There was an attempt on Reagans life.

They tried to kill Ford twice. So by your logic, Ford was twice as good as Reagan, and so far above everybody else it's not even close.

Vive Gerald Ford!

Seriously, I'd be curious to hear unrig's logic, although I'm pretty sure he didn't mean the act of assassination (successful or not) makes a president great.

InkL0sed · Post by **InkL0sed** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 6:37 pm

Frigidus wrote:
Skittles! wrote:
unriggable wrote:FYI Elijah, great presidents are assassinated.
McKinley? Wasn't exactly great..
True that. How about Teddy Roosevelt? FDR? They rocked so hard people died, and they weren't assassinated per say. Unless you count polio as an assassin.

Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest and survived by pure luck. I think it hit his glasses case or something.

He had been about to make a speech when it happened. He was so energetic that he made the speech anyway before he went to the hospital.

Great man, TR.

What Do You Think of Ronald Reagan?

What do you think of Ronald Reagan?