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swinney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 12:45 PM
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REAGANFEST GREAT
--------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS
FIRST---------------------------
                                                       
(1900-1989)     

   (Peggy Noonan pay attention)

1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster  than growth of national
income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster  than growth of  gdp over
eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight
years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over  8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior
50 years.
8. First to have  “real”   INTEREST RATES of  8% after
averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262
yen  to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE
SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided
after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we
have hit  the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are
unguarded.
15. First to deal with   TERRORISTS 
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The
Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing
MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an  ASSISTANT  SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO
PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION
CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged
with crimes than  CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER  PRESIDENTS in
the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE
DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000  INCREASE IN WEALTH from
serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T
REMEMBER” . 
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory
testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving
office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho
anyone cared.
30. First to  promote his religious faith and never have an
ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST  in  speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING. 
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in  Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing
Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with  ALZHIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great
depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000
inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands
tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have
defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he
did not make at least one or more  INCORRECT  STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press
conferences to tell  the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during  peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling
them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’
by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY
HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS
in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20
hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to
questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and
“BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the
microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the
reporter  
yelled out  “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T
LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM
BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon.
1994   Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for
giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC
examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the
”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.


62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform
and  INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%,
tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by
152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV 
“sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get
his attention”
65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV
 ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER  EACH 
YEAR. His speech got slower.  He deliberated more and he
hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness
and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very
slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
66. First to have a  POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his
first two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a
major 
      university  study his behavior and conclude that  AFTER
THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS. 
    
------------------------------------ THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU
FREE---------------
cwswinney@netzero.net
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 12:46 PM
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1. Thanks swinney
:hi:
He was also the first president of my life.
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