At least the state run media of the cold war era Eastern Bloc Warsaw pact countrys, most noteable being the former USSR and its newspaper "Provda" excercised a sense of good taste...The fucktards within our general media establishment fail to understand that, Bill Clinton was a peice of debris, and Ronald Reagan represented all that is good with our great country.
If these assholes want to look at a walking conterdiction, then perhaps they should stare their liberal candiate for president, his exploits and voting record right in the eye...Bill Clinton their chamipion for the liberal cause, allowed terrorism to fester and become a fight on the streets of New York, inside our commercial airlines, and the rural country of Pennslyvania...
This article makes me sick, I guess its par for the course of what we should expect from NBC in general...
Weak on terrorism???
Reagan started what this current adminstratrion is now doing, what the Clinton administration turned a blind eye to...And that is to lean foward and take the fight to them, unless the air strikes over Tripoli, or presence of the USS New Jersey off of the cost of Beruit does not compare to the weak ass cruise missile strikes that Clinton utilized for no other reason than to take the focal point away from the Lewinsky scandle....Clinton also cut and run after the Somolia snafu, and I blame him directly for what happended to our troops, and I blame him even more for not seaking retribution, and encouraging more bloodshed.
Raised taxes???
Well somebody had to increase defense spending after Jimmy Carter decided to lay up to the Warsaw Pact, and somebody had to lead us out of the cold war...Carter erroded the military durring his four years almost as much as Clinton did durring the 90's, its a testiment to the buildup under Reagan's watch, that our military was able to weather that errosion and take on what we are doing now, despite the neglect of the 90's, those speant tax dollars of the eighties are still paying off dividends...20 YEARS LATER!
Liberals suck...Its fitting that their mascott is a Jackass...
Sorry about the colorfull metaphors, the timing of this peice really struck a nerve...
In fact I am writing Andrea Mitchell an e-mail after I post this message.
Reagan: man of contradictions?
His words conflicted with his deeds on many issues
By Andrea Mitchell
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 5:37 p.m. ET June 08, 2004
In his speech at the 1980 Republican convention, candidate Ronald Reagan announced, “Indeed, it is time our government should go on a diet.”
From the very beginning he was a man of contradictions: a deficit cutter who, over eight years, almost tripled the size of the federal budget.
In the 1988 State of the Union address he emphasized the size of a report, “1,153 pages report, weighing 14 pounds.”
He engineered the biggest tax cut in history in his first year in office, and then raised taxes every year after.
He promised to eliminate the Education Department, and then let it flourish.
Even Reagan’s first budget director, David Stockman, warned that the Reagan revolution was going off course. Stockman said, “Lunch with the president was more in the nature of a visit to the woodshed after supper.”
Now, Stockman tells NBC News Reagan was right — it was Congress that got it wrong, “The problem at the end of the day wasn’t President Reagan — it wasn’t the White House," said Stockman. "It wasn’t the Democrats. It was the Republicans on Capitol Hill who couldn’t give up their pork.”
What about Reagan’s performance on social issues? When anti-abortion protestors rallied each year, the president addressed them by speakerphone — never in person.
Two out of his three Supreme Court appointees — Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy—were moderates, not hardliners.
But perhaps the biggest contradiction in his record was his promise to get tough with terrorists. “Our policy will be one of swift and effective retribution,” he announced on Jan. 27, 1981.
Still, when terrorists killed 241 sailors and Marines in their Beirut barracks, Reagan withdrew the troops.
And despite his early denial that he was trading arms for hostages, “Those charges are utterly false,” he said on Nov. 13, 1986.
When the Iran-Contra scandal threatened his presidency, he apologized on Mar. 4, 1987: “A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages… my heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5166503/
Edited by - chadrewsky on Jun 08 2004 7:44 PM
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