Words of Wisdom From The Best President IN My Lifetime

May He Rest In Peace With God

from JoeUser Forums

With all the politcs of today don't you miss Ronald Reagan?  I mean not only was he articulate, funny  and smart, he was entertaining as well.  Maybe his acting career helped him there some but he was genuinely just a pretty well liked guy no matter your politics.  

Here's a few of his words he left behind to remember him by:

"Here's my strategy on the cold war; we win; they lose."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are:  I'm from the government and I'm here to help." 

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just they know so much that isn't so." 

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US was too strong." 

"I have wondered at times about what the 10 Commandments would have looked like had Moses run them thru the US Congress."

"The Taxpayer:  That's someone who works for the Federal Government but doesn't have to take the Civil Service Examination." 

"Government is like a baby:  an alimentary canal with a big appetite on one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"The nearest thing to eternal life  we will ever see on this earth is a government program."

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.  I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.  "

"Politics is not a bad profession.  If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenols of the world is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

"If we ever forget that we are one nation under God then we will be a nation gone under."

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
"Here's my strategy on the cold war; we win; they lose."


Gee, nothing like a brainless oversimplification to really exemplify Republican lack of thought.

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."


Actually its "Heckuva Job Brownie"

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the US was too strong."


But the Iraq war came about because the President was a lying dirtbag.

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."


And you can always count on a Bush to pardon you for committing crimes for them.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
With all the politcs of today don't you miss Ronald Reagan?


No. Reagan was not the Messiah president you alls like to paint him as.

To counter your Reagan quotes, some from Harry Truman, the best president of the twentieth century:

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."

"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases."

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

" remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here."

"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."

"The reward of suffering is experience."

"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members."

"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgments about what is going on."

"Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."

Now, that guy was a president. Reagan (and everyone else since him) are just embarrassing shams compared to Harry.

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Wasn't Reagan the governor of California who decided that AIDS wasn't something that needed to be addressed because it was only killing homosexuals, therefore allowing AIDS to get into the blood supply, and get a foothold in the United States?
Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
The Best President IN My Lifetime


when was this written? As apparently you were born in 1981 and died in 1988.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
when was this written? As apparently you were born in 1981 and died in 1988.


That was actually funny. :D
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
He was the greatest. And that is why liberals hate him so much. He was proof that their way was and is the wrong way.
Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top
He was the greatest.


Ronnie Ray Gun was a delusional addled old geezer who spent the last few years of his second term soiling himself and falling asleep in cabinet meetings.
Reply #8 from PolMach Forums Top
That was actually funny


Thats about the only way Reagan could be the best president of their lifetime.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

To counter your Reagan quotes, some from Harry Truman, the best president of the twentieth century:

I like Harry although I must confess I don't know that much about him.  I was thinking he was best known for his "The Buck Stops Here."  I like that especially. 

He was the greatest. And that is why liberals hate him so much. He was proof that their way was and is the wrong way

Yes he was!  As usual....we're in agreement Doc! 

 

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Ronnie Ray Gun was a delusional addled old geezer who spent the last few years of his second term soiling himself and falling asleep in cabinet meetings.


The best presidents don't do anything. :D
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
The best presidents don't do anything.


But according to "their" logic, that is what makes them great. Screw an intern, and you are great. Tear down a dividing wall - and you are bad! ;)
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Screw an intern, and you are great.


At least he wasn't attacking other countries for no reason. Not that I can point to any president that did, but still. He kept busy. :P
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
He kept busy.


Which is why we had Cole, The African Embassies, WTC I, etc.......

His mind was not on the job.

Wasn't Reagan the governor of California who decided that AIDS wasn't something that needed to be addressed because it was only killing homosexuals, therefore allowing AIDS to get into the blood supply, and get a foothold in the United States?


He was governor in the 60s. AIDS did not hit until the late 70s, and was not recognized until the early 80s. However the Myth of Reagan's presidency can be seen in the following paragraph:



AIDS funding skyrocketed in the 1980s, almost doubling each year from 1983 – when the media started blaring headlines – from $44 million to $103 million, $205 million, $508 million, $922 million, and then $1.6 billion in 1988. Reagan’s secretary of Health and Human Services in1983, Margaret Heckler, declared AIDS her department’s "number one priority." While the House of Representatives was Democrat-dominated throughout the 1980s, which Democrats would quickly explain was the source of that skyrocketing AIDS funding, Reagan clearly signed the spending bills that funded the war on AIDS.



Some will criticize the source, but they cannot refute the numbers and dates.
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top

in the beginning it was chaos.....this was affecting the blood supply and nobody knew what and who started all this at first.  There was a movie that came out about this.  Remember the fear and Ryan White and his family who lived in Florida? 

The problem was the secrecy.  The CDC (I believe) was afraid of panic so they didn't alert people right away and because of that it spread thru the blood supply.  Bathhouses were thought to be the blame and they were immediately shut down all over the place.  If I remember right...there was a male stewardess who was doing quite a bit of damage by spreading HIV all over the place as he traveled the country but that didn't get noticed until it was too late and many people were infected. 

I'm not so sure it's fair to blame Reagan for this because nobody knew what they were up against in the beginning. 

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Finally someone notices I posted here. :P

Anyway, I don't know about it. A friend of mine was dissing RR and brought that up. As he was born in California at around that time, and his mother almost needed a transfusion, it's quite a sore subject for him.

He's a good guy though. :)
Reply #16 from PolMach Forums Top
Hi, "Kickin'"

Ronald Reagan did have a lot of charm. However:

When he took office, we were the largest creditor-nation in the world. As a direct result of his economic policies, known as supply-side economics, we had run up a massive (at least for the time, but not compared to now) deficit, and had begun our conversion to being the largest debtor-nation in the world, which we now are. FACT - check it if you like.

He was, perhaps as a result of the Alzheimer's that developed while he was in office, guilty of violating U.S. policy by trading military weapons to Iran for American hostages taken under Carter. He explained in a televised speech (which made me sad, not angry) that even thought the facts showed he had traded arms for hostages, his heart said he hadn't. FACT - check it if you like.

Much evil was done in Central America because of his support for the group known as the Contras. He violated United States law to arm them. FACT - check it if you like.

And let's not forget that while he talked a great line about lowering taxes, even he became alarmed by the size of his projected deficit, and raised taxes himself. FACT - check it if you like.

No, I would not like him back. When he laid a wreath at the German WWII Cemetery in Bitberg, where members of the Waffen SS were buried, I was embarrassed and sickened.

We both remember Reagan in our own way.
Reply #17 from PolMach Forums Top
Hi, "Kickin'"

Re: AIDS, the flight attendant you remembered worked for Air Canada, if I recall, and I think his name was Gaetan Dugas (probably misspelled). He was found to be "patient zero", which is the term used for the one who starts an epidemic. He was extremely promiscuous, and regularly went to Haiti, where he cavorted with men there who were, some of them, intravenous drug users.

I believe, but can't swear to it, that by the time Dugas was identified, he was either dying or dead.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
perhaps as a result of the Alzheimer's that developed while he was in office


Actually, they have already determined it developed after he left office.

As for your facts, again, they are your opinions. not facts. IN your opinion. IN my opinion, funding of the Contras made Nicaraugua turn back to democracy (the way it is today) instead of becoming Cuba II.

And while taxes were slashed under his terms, they were also raised a lot too. But different ones, and in the end, according to the Constiutution, it is Congress that does the raising and lowering - they have the power of the purse strings.

The dirty non-secret is that the taxes that were raised were to bail out Social Security (the most regressive federal tax there is), and that the democrats pontificate about it, but do nothing (see GWB). yes, he raised those big time. ANd we all know they are not fixed now, or probably ever will. Ponzi schemes will eventually fail.

Reagan was not perfect - no one is. But his Presidency was great for where he took America from to where he took America to. And how the world changed for the better during his tenure. No president in the last 60 years has done anywhere as near as much.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Geeeze Catguy I can't remember every blooming detail here in the Presedential life of RR.

I'm just looking at the general picture and I still contend he's the best Prez so far in my lifetime. I agree with Dr. Guy, no one is perfect and the Presidency is not an easy job. No matter you will have your critics but overall I think most people on both sides of the fence would say he was a good solid President who loved his country and did what he thought was best for all of us.

Reply #20 from Stardock Forums Top

No, no, no KFC - the best President in my lifetime was none other than William Jefferson Clinton.  My favorite quote - "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what's right in America". 

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
the best President in my lifetime was none other than William Jefferson Clinton. My favorite quote - "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what's right in America".


ugh! Ok love the quote.....didn't love the man (even tho he was a bible toting Baptist)!

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
No, no, no KFC - the best President in my lifetime was none other than William Jefferson Clinton.


:LOL:

Mine, too.
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
Mine, too.


Well that's sad SC. I feel bad for you.

But you weren't even conceived when Ronald Reagan took office. It's been pretty much downhill from there...although I think Bush hasn't really been all that bad...at least not nearly as bad as the Dems say he is..... but let's not go there.... :p 

Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what's right in America".


Remember that you lefties. ;)
Reply #25 from PolMach Forums Top
Hi, Dr. Guy -

Who, please, is the "they" who determined when Reagan's Alzheimers developed? I've heard that it may well have been under way as early as the end of his first term, but obviously don't know.

As for the Contras, I said that much evil was done. I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking about the Contras' regular practice of "consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping." Those words are not mine, but are from the Catholic Institute for International Relations, who looked into the matter at some length.

Whatever else Reagan did, he started leading the Republican Party away from fiscal conservatism. His economic policies created a huge (for the time) deficit. Your party has never gone back to where it was fiscally before he took office.