…though many will continue to try to cut it down with their plastic sporks. In the NYT magazine last weekend, Mr. Eugene Jarecki sought to fire his pee shooter at Dutch with comments like this one:
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.
What a buffoon. Some people will never embrace the opportunity society and will seek to foment this kind of class-warfare psychology in the rest of the population (so that their own twisted psyches can have company). What Reagan did, among other brilliant things, was to reverse decades of punitive taxation on creators of wealth by bringing the tax code closer to fairness. This precipitated an economic boom that fueled Reagan’s signal achievement: the destruction of the USSR, which freed Eastern Europe and set the world on a course of freedom. But other than that Reagan sucked.
Lilliputians like Jarecki are impotent in the face of the awesomely beautiful and profound Reagan legacy, which will only grow as future generations marvel at how he saved the world from darkness. The right man at the right time, thank god.
The legacy is one that cannot be tarnished as you put it. Sadly many of the people who will attempt to spit on it were barely alive when Ronald Wilson Reagan was making his everlasting footprint on the WORLD! Not just the United States but he impacted the world and he served notice that the United States of America do not fear the wolves at the door. Mr. Peanut tried to negotiate the release of our hostages in IRAN but truly pursued a path of weakness in doing so. What did it take? Reagan getting elected and they were on their way home. Why? Because they knew Reagan was not weak nor was he timid…He was going to take those hostages back one way or another…Iran knew this.
They say Pres. Slappy is reading of Reagan now…what a laugh, truly the act of a clown. He is incapable of truly understanding what Reagan was, is and will always be…A True American Patriot and Hero who lead this country by example and was not afraid to label government as the problem and not the solution….He was real.
Perfectly said
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Happy Bert!!!
Remarkable how you Reagan myth-lovers forget how this president too broke. the. law. Broke it. And lied lied lied all the way home. Like Nixon and your buddy Clinton, who you never miss a change to excoriate for HIS lying and law-breaking. ILLEGAL activities in Iran Contra, ILLEGAL funding of Contras after Congress cut them off, and then of course trading arms for hostages…oh yeah, and lying about it. No? Nothing? Inconvenient truth?
Reagan is a GOD, and trading arms for hostages was a patriotic thing to have attempted (just think about it: arms for….American hostages). Contrast Reagan’s questionable behavior with Clinton and Nixon: Clinton lied in order to cover up his abuse of dozens of women, which is reprehensible on its own before one even considers how little connection there was to his duties as President; the man cared nothing for this country and was the most selfish to ever inhabit the White House. Likewise, Nixon’s lies were designed to cover up his role in stealing political secrets from adversaries who might have made it harder for him to win re-election.
The Great Reagan cared about only one thing: the United States. He was not in it for himself, but for the country and constitution he swore to uphold. And for the 4o million Eastern Europeans he liberated by staring down and destroying the USSR. This was his obsession, and a man with such pure intention deserves to live among the immortals.
sasoc…Bravo!! Reagan is a thorn in the side of the left, why? How long has it been that we had a democratic president that did anything of worth…Sure Clinton improved unemployment, but the jobs created were selling nut-logs on the side of the highway…probably surplus nuts left over from the Carter era. They would have you believe Clinton left a surplus, he did but only by robbing the SSI fund. No, Carter was weak and Clinton was a scum bag, liar who thought his shit was slicker than than his kitchen floor after a crisco party. HMMM Didn’t he get impeached?
Reagan did the job he was supposed to do and MORE! His presidency was the presidency of the ultimate patriot! The rest my friend is history. =)
http://basharr.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/this-is-so-good-this-idiot-works-in-congress/
This makes Bert LAUGH!
“Reagan’s questionable behavior.” No. Not “questionable.” Nice try. ILLEGAL. So according to your logic, it’s ok to break some laws if your motives are pure? Can I break a law if I call myself a patriot? Will that stand up in court? Oh right, he didn’t go to court–he sent Ollie in his place. You don’t get to split hairs on this one by parsing each president’s motives. I know you’re with me on this on some level–you’ve historically shown no tolerance for lying and law breaking. You can’t rationalize yourself out of that hypocritical stance.
And I have no love for Clinton or Carter, so you don’t get to poke all your liberal holes in my argument…
Reagan didn’t know what Ollie was up to! He had Alzheimer’s!
I believe, quite politely Reagan did state over and over “I do not recall?”
This could be do to the alzheimers. Sadly at this point we may never know…
Ah yes, the old conservative tactic–if my circular logic fails, resort to patronizing my interlocutor…thanks guys! That tells me all I need to know.