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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,714 posts)
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 04:22 PM Sep 2017

Ronald Reagan

"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace - a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. "

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Ronald Reagan (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2017 OP
"And now my party . . ." gratuitous Sep 2017 #1
We need to update the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2017 #3
Ronald Reagan Doreen Sep 2017 #2
He did indeed. trotsky Sep 2017 #4
I agree 100%. Doreen Sep 2017 #5
Simply meaningless words that he betrayed constantly. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #6
The acting president Motley13 Sep 2017 #7
Reagan was a nasty fucking piece of self centered shit gopiscrap Sep 2017 #8

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. "And now my party . . ."
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 04:26 PM
Sep 2017

"And now I stand proudly with the Republican party that waits for hundreds of thousands of immigrants to follow the DACA program in establishing themselves in this country, and cruelly pulls the rug out from under them on a week's notice. Because of their extraordinarily vulnerable status, these hopefuls are doubly penalized by this Republican sucker punch. Proud and God blessed, people, proud and God blessed!"

Okay, I made that quote up, but really, isn't that the gist of what the Party of Reagan has just done?

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
6. Simply meaningless words that he betrayed constantly.
Tue Sep 5, 2017, 04:56 PM
Sep 2017

He was a racist who appealed to racists, with his talk of welfare queens and lazy young bucks, and starting his campaign in Mississippi. He was simply a more polite version of Donald Trump with the same greed and lack of principle.

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