Obama is so smooth, he even helps with the dishes.
Evidentially these are being sold in the UK (for some reason).
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Obama is so smooth, he even helps with the dishes.
Evidentially these are being sold in the UK (for some reason).
Reagan was a Union Buster. At the end of his term he had Alzheimers and no-one noticed. Company Man. Nancy was a bitch.
Dude, this is a positive trait. As you may remember he fired the illegally striking air traffic controllers. This in turn helped convince the Russians that he had some spine. I’m all for the right to unionize within the private sector (and they are free to strike), but if you work for the government that is a different matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
Remarks and Q & A with reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) strike - YouTube
The point is that there are ways of assessing a Presidency, and yours is more biased than most, so I consider my own response was a balancing act: I know quite well how popular Reagan was, it is not in doubt, his election results proved it. There is also the compelling argument that in his second term he was more willing to do deals with the USSR than his advisers, and that it was this transformation of Reagan into a 'weak sister' that created the Neo-Cons: Kristol, Richard Pearle and the other founders of the Project for a New American Century to ensure that the next Republican President would not become a 'weak sister' but walk tall and carry a big stick.Quote:
Originally Posted by mildcigar_2001
Yes, Reagan got historic arms reduction agreements from Gorbachev, but by that time the USSR was in its death-throes anyway. Your 'weak sister' was 'standing up' to a failed state, it failed in Afghanistan, it failed in Poland, it failed in its own back yard. When I was active on the left in the UK, nobody I knew had any illusions about the USSR and it was an open secret that the Communist Party of Great Britain was financially corrupt even if the full details did not emerge until after 1989. There was a Trotskyist called Hillel Ticktin who used to write articles [mostly in a journal called Critique] on what a dump the USSR was and why it didn't work and was destined to collapse -nobody took any notice, but it was just one among many examples of a 'Leftist' who had no starry eyed romantic ideas about the USSR, whereas you seem to have such a glorious vision of Ronald Reagan -whose faults, in my opinion, outstripped whatever positives he had. You are still living with his legacy; just as we are living with the legacy of Margaret Thatcher in the UK.
Looked at in the context of their times, Carter was a better President than Reagan, in fact one of the finest Presidents of the 20th century, and certainly one of the most decent and honourable.
Hoover
Eisenhower
Nixon, Agnew
Ford
Reagan
Bush, Quayle
Bush, Cheney
Williard Mitt Etch-a-Sketch Romney(loser with money)
Wow BS your smooth too!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by buttslinger
Reagan's greatest legacy was his ratcheting up of the "War on Drugs". There is no proof other than testimony, that the CIA, imported cocaine to fund the illegal war on democratic Nicaraugua. However many people believe this to be true, as the spread of the crack epidemic coincided with the war. What is easily documentable, is the amount of new laws, introduced, such as the expansion of minimum sentencing requirements for drug offences. The harsher sentencing for crack vs powder cocaine directly targeted the Black community. So the suburban user of powder, would have to 100 times the amount of the urban 'rock' form, to have the same prison sentence. Reagan's crack down was intrumental in making the US the world largest prison population. It is true, the following presidents continued those policies. But given Reagan's public stance on drugs, it is ironic that the CIA continued to support Manual Noriega, the Panama dictator, who was finally arreasted for major drug dealing the year after Reagan left office (1989), and sentenced to 45 years. Reagan's administration used Noriega as a go between in support of its war against the Nicarauguan goverment. So harsher punishments effecting the Black community, while protecing others from punishment. Was Reagan's achievment, that still has great repercussions today.
Here is a reference article to my facts.
War on Drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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You are right, Obama is so suave.
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Originally Posted by KellyShore
I bet she is a bitch who would take the beating and then go get him a beer after.