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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:04 PM
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I will say one good thing about Reagan
No Democrat could have gotten away with negotiating arms control with the Soviets in the 1980's. Reagan took the risk of alienating the right wing of the Republican Party and even went to the LEFT of many Democrats in proposing a total abolition of nuclear arms. On this issue, I have to give the old man his due.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:07 PM
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1. I liked his amnesty...
That was very humane.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:09 PM
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2. Carter negotiated SALT II with Brezhnev. n/t
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:13 PM
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3. He's dead
Personally I think he went for this arms control because the Soviets could verify it. He replaced it with things like Star Wars, where the Soviets couldn't tell what we had, or whether it worked.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 10:30 PM
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24. LMAO...
those were the EXACT words that came to mind when I saw the title of the thread. :rofl: Now, I must ask Creator for forgiveness!
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:13 PM
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4. I liked him in "The Killers"
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:16 PM
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5. He "negotiated" arms control by outspending the USSR.
Put us trillions in debt so he could negotiate from a position of power, then watched as military industrial complex overcharged taxpayers by the hundreds of billions. Remember the $2,000 wrenches? (whatever) He would not have been able to negotiate anything if it were not for Gorbachev. I doubt any previous Soviet premier or president would have negotiated anything with him, especially after his airport tirade (which was caught on film).
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Dagaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:19 PM
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6. There will be an NFL Tribute video before the Super Bowl
Warning. The below is the actual tribute to be aired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4xvwQAwPAo&feature=player_embedded
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:28 PM
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9. Oh gawd. Why did you do that? We can't be friends now
:puke: :puke: :puke:

Jane Wyman was sure pretty, though

:hi:
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 07:12 PM
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15. during his long nap in the oval office, apart from my mourning band, I wore a button that read "jane
wyman was right" funny, the repukes never got it.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:45 PM
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14. Narrated by Limbaugh buddy Joe Buck
I wonder what his then wife thought of the day that GOD brought Nancy into his life
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county worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:20 PM
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7. Are you forgetting the star wars missile shield?
There is something too simplistic in the way you put that. I can't remember all the details and would need to do research but there is much more to that anti nuclear story.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:22 PM
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8. Well, I really like his son Ron.
In the spirit of begrudgingly saying something nice about the guy.

:)
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:29 PM
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10. +1
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:32 PM
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12. I'll give him that one. I really tried to think of something and couldn't! nt
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 07:20 PM
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17. Yep. When I say I like Ronald Reagan....
...I mean Ron, Jr. Hard to believe they're father and son.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:31 PM
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11. Three recs.
Welcome to what Underground?!

Besides, I thought it was mostly Carter who got the ball rolling.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:59 PM
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23. Three fuckwits.
:)
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 06:40 PM
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13. There wasn't much risk
they would actually say yes to total nuclear disarmament.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 07:17 PM
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16. Actually, he's feeding the worms now and continuing the "cycle of life"
That's the only good thing I can think of about him.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 07:22 PM
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18. Are we certain of that? Do worms feed off of wax and hair dye? nt
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Toon Me Out Donating Member (245 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:03 PM
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19. Maybe it was Nancy that scared the Soviets.

Works for me!
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wizstars Donating Member (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:20 PM
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20. She looks like her cheeks melted. With her sunken eyes, she really looks like...
...she could be an android. Programmed to do the Evil One's bidding.

Reagan proposed total disarmament knowing that the Soviets would never go along with it--that gave him the excuse he wanted to build up his arms race to infinity and launch Star Wars and all the other toys the Pentagon wanted, that eventually bankrupted us.

Oh, and he armed Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. And the rest, as they say, is history....Worthless piece of shit. I'm very happy he's down where the worms can get him, but I doubt they would want him, either.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:27 PM
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21. As soon as he made Peace a priority, Iran-Contra blew up.


Weird, wasn't it? How he kept from being impeached is anybody's guess. Heh.
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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 09:50 PM
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22. I can say one good thing about him.
He died when I was in London at a work-related conference. The Federal government in the DC area got excused for his funeral. It was also the day after the conference, which I was going to use a day of leave for. So, I got a free day off, without leave, in London.

THANK YOU FOR DYING, RONALD REAGAN!
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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-11 10:32 PM
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25. He was pretty good in Dark Victory. n/t
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-05-11 01:31 PM
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26. On many issues, Reagan was well to The Left....
Edited on Sat Feb-05-11 01:33 PM by bvar22
...of Obama and the "New Democrats".
Rachel Maddow did a fascinating comparison last week.

He had the sense to Cut & Run when the Marine Barracks was bombed in Lebanon in 1983.
He was smart enough enough not to waste American Blood & Money in a country where we were not wanted.
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