Is it me or was Ronald Reagan most overrated politican in history

Please read the attached article it is fascinating...I read it twice, & I totally argee with the writer....

The writer didn't even mention why I always thought low of Reagan, he appointed Scalia, tried to appoint Bork, & wasted tremendous amount of money on the Meese Commission, which investiagted the porn industry....

To me, that airport in Washington DC will always be Washington National Airport, I refuse to call it by its other name...

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BIL knew a lot of dea people, who knew ss. everybody knew he was being propped up.

I have lived in the Washington DC area for 55 years. I still call that airport Washington National. I see no reason to change.

He would have perhaps been great, if he would have been elected the nation's grandfather (good folksy stories, great communicator, somewhat funny and knew what to project for the situation). He was in my opinion the worst president we had ever had up until the Esteemed Mr. Bush.

A commander in chief who has the military talent and the motivation can impose his will on various countries and fight many opportunistic wars before he finally over-extends himself and forces his country to surrender to the coalition of enemies it has created for itself.

Which is safer for the world: a military career followed by a political career or an acting career followed by a political career?

Your generality has merit but not all military personnel are war mongering cretins stove piping data to fit their alleged pattern of world domination. bush is anything but a military man and he's created enemies in every corner of the universe.

of except that both are/were generals. I did use the word "can", not the word "will" in this: "can impose his will on various countries and fight many opportunistic wars."

Someone with the talents of a Napoleon might have the power to do something like what Napoleon did. Not all powers are used.

is George Washington and if memory serves, he was quite the peace advocate after he was elected president.

I mean, Eisenhower wasn't so bad as POTUS, was he? Or Washington? (But then there's Jackson and Grant . . .)

by the republcan party , with the complicity of the media.


HE couldn't find his own ass with both hands.

Time and perspective will bring him down to size

of the "new conservatives".

Good looking older guy with a trusting voice. Came in and was part of an economic bounce to prosperity coupled with the fall of the Soviet Union.

Of course many historians would tell you that the Soviet union fell because of the Soviet Union and not because of Saint Ronnie the Senile...but that's not how the FReeps see it. Probably because they're idiots.

:evilgrin:

That fucker set in motion many of our most serious problems today (deregulation, empowering Christian fundamentalists, neocons and corporations at the expense of the majority of us, horrific secret government ops - Iran/Contra, Abu Gharaib, Guantanamo, etc.), and his mind rotted away before he could be held accountable for his crimes. Instead, his death was treated as that of a Moonie Pope and conservative Messiah.

in Europe. The news show I was watching on the day of the funeral showed the the "throng" on CNN was really just a very small group of people on bleachers watching the motorcade with the hearse. And they actually commented on how the processionand funeral were being staged, how the event had been planned for years. Yes, years. The reporter said something about the Reagans being theatrical to the end.

It's like we're living in Evil Disneyworld here sometimes.

:mad:

It's just crazy how many people bought that many lies about such a horrible person (by association and accomplishment, if not personally).

Union busting. Iran/Contra. Deregulation that started the corporate mess we have now. The SDI waste-of -money-corporate-welfare program. And more, on and on.

I still call it National Airport too.

bush is pushing 30% approval rating which is about 30% way overrated.

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Reagan's appeal always baffled me. I remember around 1982 or '83, one of my co-workers saying (with a sigh in her voice) that she felt "so safe" with Reagan in office. Since she was above me in the chain of command, I chose not to respond.

And the airport? It's either DCA or National. The only person I know who calls is Reagan claims to be an independent, yet always votes Republican.

I fucking hated him, and still do to this day...

mental hospitals, throwing the mentally ill to live on the streets
fending for themselves.


What a hero!

;(

of course, they really haven't had anything in the last 100 years to try and brag about either.

but very much ignored concerning the extremely negative impact he had on everyday people and the World. He smiled, and said stupid stuff in such a coy way that he could convince segment of the population that a bobble-headed clown has great Wisdom and unfailing common sense.

When you have a B-rated actor become the President of the United States, you know you have a big problem in more ways than one.

In fact, that sets the stage for some village idiot to come in and play the fool who makes fools feel good about their condition ... oh, wait, that's become a fact. Sorry.

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He was the the worst president ever til we got stuck with bush. The whole financial mess in this country started under his economics. President Clinton pulled us out of it for a while til the stealer of the presidency, bush the coward stole two elections.

... to vote for literally ANYBODY.

Survivor's social security, that is. My father died when we were little kids.

St. Ronnie's administration put a stop to that.

He was one of our worst presidents, but 20 years of non-stop propaganda by the right wing has convinced alot of people that he was one of our best. Reagan was quite unpopular when he left the White House. I remember laughing the first time I heard some right-wing stooge remark on the "greatness of Ronald Reagan". I didn't realize it was part of a larger marketing campaign.

Reagan's "teflon", remember that.

Well, it wasn't teflon, after all, but the Dry Run Test of the Prototype Bushevik Sub-Media and Lie Laundry.

Remember how Ollie North had a "95% approval rating"? Knowing what we now know about the Bushie Infrastructure of Lies and it's wild successess over the same gullibility, apparently, that was present in 1930s Germany and exists today in Amerika 2007... Knowing what we know, do you STILL believe Ollie had a 95% approval rating?

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I expect the same Orwellian Bushification of Bushler's legacy, only worse because whatever Reagan was, he sure as hell wasn't the worst pResident in American History, like Bushler is.

Yes the propaganda and PR lies used to sell Reagan to a gullbile populace ready to be (and now are) enslaved were the primitive prototypes of those which work swo well today.

I never did get what all the adulation was about. I didn't think he was the "Great Communicator", just a corny man wishing he still lived in another era. I believe he was a puppet to G.H.W. Bush, James Baker and that whole crew. They are the ones who ran the country into ruination. They just propped him in front of a camera and let him ramble on and the press and people loved it. What a sham!!

when the shit looked like it was gonna hit the fan, they cut his tongue out. not literally, but the "aneurysm" that he had was in the language center of his brain.
anything else we would need to know?
i'm beginning to think that the only hope for this country it to blow up all the teevees.

That is my favorite line when RWers tell me how great he was. Still crack myself up after all these years.. Thank God for the little things in life!

big dog more like big fraud

As I recall, his approval ratings weren't that great while he was in office. What happened after he left office to transform him into a Republican god?

Reagan was nothing. An actor, and a bad one to boot.

not nearly as bad as Reagan but his accomplishments were fairly meager.

If you include him in the ranks of Pol Pot or Pinochet.

One of the best, as was Bill Clinton.

But Reagan was an awful president. Incredibly overrated. He is responsible for much of today's energy and environmental problems. He's given credit for ending the Cold War where much of the credit should go to Gorbachev. Reagan also started us on the credit binge that is finally coming home to roost. Trickle-down economics and all that.

The fact that he is so revered is an indication of his top-notch political (and acting) skills.

Remember when Reagan blamed the trees for producing too much oxygen, contributing to "air pollution"?

Man, when Bozo retired, I thought for sure Reagan would apply for his job.

Hey kids, want to see me blow up a balloon with my nose?

But that's still 20% overrated.

himself died earlier this month.
Deaver made sure that the sun set in the distance as RR's funeral ended.

Reagan was far from a great president. Infact he was among the worst for what would have been the best interests of most of the citiznes of this country...he just had great publicity.

The Man Behind the Magic

By Lou Cannon
Monday, August 20, 2007; Page A15



lots more interesting stuff at...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081901144.html

:woohoo: glad you're here..

Yeah, Reagan was a damn good politican, but an awful person as well as an awful president....

That was ANOTHER eight years of my life I couldn't get through soon enough.

definitely deserve all the credit.

:shrug:

at their convention next year, ala Weekend at Bernie's. .....

And I agree with you, it's NATIONAL airport. I make a point to emphasize that when someone says Reagan National, or Reagan Airport.

That's a GREAT tallent for any politician. BC was born with that ability, which is very rare. It's actually the acting training that scares me most about Freddie! That COULD be the only thing he needs!

I was born a few miles from that airport and have flown in and out
of it hundreds of times. It will never have another name for me, and
for those who are from the DC area, the same goes for most of them.

As for Reagan, I don't overrate him at all. I saw him as a big zero
before he took office, while he was in office, and after he was in
office. He was a figment of the imagination of a small group of very
clever evil people. Some saw what they were supposed to see. For the
rest of us, he was not a figment of our imagination, but instead, one
eight year long nightmare, much like the sequel in which we are all
now starring in supporting roles.

The fact that man gets credit for "winning" the Cold War is an enormous insult to each and every Eastern European who put his or her life on the line to advocate for democratic change in the 1970s and 1980s.

And the fact that Americans voted in a B-movie actor over one of the most intelligent, ethical and compassionate men to ever hold the office of the presidency is embarassing.

Here's the thing about Reagan--Republicans and conservatives idolize him not for anything he actually did, but because they were so embarassed after Watergate they needed to create a new Republican "hero" to wipe the slate clean. Who better to do it than the biggest empty suit ever to hold the office?

And if there is a hell, he's there.