Was Ronald Reagan the greatest patriot and american?

Question

He has been voted the greatest american many times I was just wondering what you thought?

Answer 1

Um no and no.

He was no patriot. He was 4F from the Army and did training films in WWII for the "war effort".

As President, he was the one who not only presided over the fall of the Soviet Union (NOT the fall of Communism as Reps would like everyone to believe), he also ignored the HIV crisis when it could have possibly been contained, he armed the very country you chickenhawks want to invade next, and he introduced us to a charming new subgroup of humanity, the "Homeless Person", through "trickle down economics", what trickled down was plant closures and the beginnings of "offshoring" the new word for "outsourcing".

He spent the latter half of his second term mostly in seclusion, the beginnings of Alzheimer's Disease beginning to affect his decision making skills and memory. But rather than remove Reagan from office as he became more and more unfit to carry out of the duties of the office, the Reps just coasted him along, wrongly assuming anybody with "competent" advisors could do the job.

This was incorrect, as Bush Sr and Clinton could tell you. It took 12 years to fix most of the damage Reagan did with his massive tax cuts and deficit spending programs. He re-built the military at the expense of the Federal School Lunch program, which, under Reagan's FDA, had to reclassify "ketchup" as a vegetable, otherwise the lunches which could be made under an almost non existent budget wouldn't meet minimum FDA nutrition standards for children.

Answer 2

I would disagree. Not to be disrespectful but what did he really do? Communism was a bad system and fell for the most part on it's own. The airline strike situation/Iran Contra/the defecit/the war on drugs...I do not know if these are successes.

Was he a good president? Depends. I do think he was probably slightly better than many others. He was excellent with the Challenger explosion, he was great at the Berlin wall and w/ Gorbachav, he rebuilt the military, and he made many people feel good about America. He was "The Great Communicator".

I do not know if any of this would classify him as the greatest american. I would put at least four presidents ahead of him (Lincoln, FDR, Washington & James Madison) and many other non presidents ahead of him...Martin Luther King, Elenor Roosevelt, Oprah Winfrey, Susan B. Anthony, Jackie Robinson, George Marshall, Henry Ford, Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates just to name a few.

Again, this was not to take anything away from Ronald Reagan's accomplishments, which were many, but I think that some things ought to be looked at from a more historical and less political perspective.

Answer 3

Ronnie Raygun happened to reside at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. when other forces brought down the Berlin wall and the Soviet Government in Russia. Ronald Reagan was a Midwestern bully with Rich friends in Orange Co, California. He was a reasonably good actor who put bonzo to Bed and acted like a grown up for four years.
"I am Richard Cook, Crickets husband," Aim am a life long liberal and Jew. I have a deep seated distrust and dislike for all things conservative.

Answer 4

Reagan was almost as big a fool as Bush and Cheney are. It was Reagan who ignored Aids, now it's a world wide pandemic. Reagan was so dumb he took part in a protest against his own policy. Hands across America. Reagan also ran up the debt just like Bush and Cheney have ran it up to over $9 trillion in the next ten years. He also liked tax cuts for the wealthy and taxing the working class more.. Reagan almost drove this Country into bankruptcy with his spending on crap like Star wars and offensive weapons. The USSR went bankrupt first, ending the cold war was about they ran out of credit before we did..

Answer 5

Teddy Roosevelt wasn't dealing with the same stressful circumstances as Reagan did. out of control inflation, lost of understand international huge, severe unemployment, a opposed Soviet Union difficult the rustic to call some subject concerns. Ronald Reagan's polices brought about the crumple of the Soviet Union, introduced bearing directly to the final era of economic growth in placed up conflict heritage, reducing the unemployment value and inflation and made human beings proud of their u . s . returned. helpful Teddy did plenty as president, besides the undeniable fact that this is unlike he finished the flaws Reagan, or confronted the same issues. As for the Taliban, Reagan did no longer placed them in ability. He provided weapons to Pakistan, which stored maximum of them, and purely gave the Afghan combatants what they mandatory to force out the Soviets. After the grow to be grow to be over, Pakistan picked the faction that resembled what government they needed in ability for Afghanistan which grow to be the Taliban. With the weapons Pakistan gave them, the Taliban grow to be waiting to dominate the different tribes and are available to ability.

Answer 6

RIDICULOUS! Pure image-making and hype!

Jimmy Stewart saw REAL action in WWII. Reagan stayed stateside and made Army films. (Another highly esteemed "Great American" and Patriot, John Wayne, didn't serve AT ALL!) But that didn't stop Raygun from claiming in the 1980 campaign he had helped liberate concentration camps. The so-called "Liberal Media" let him get away with that, and MORE! ("It's a fact-- 90% of pollution is caused by plants and trees.")

Answer 7

Not even in the top 100,000. You can visit some of the greatest American patriots anytime you like. Many are in the same place- Arlington national cemetery, while others lie unmarked but not unremembered in God-forsaken places around the world.

Answer 8

Bert T Rules on this question!

Reagan was an "actor". Trained in projecting himself to the public. He was a Pinocchio character dancing to the rhythm and beat of the drum set by the Repugnatian political machine. Nothing more, and nothing less.

He was a traitor to the middle class workers of the US and a fairy tale president to those blind enough to accept him at face value.

Answer 9

Well I don't know about GREATEST american. I did like the man, I mean I was just kid when he was in office. I think he was a wonderful husband, and I melt when I hear the love story with him and Nancy. As far as his policy went while he was in office, it really is a mixed bag. There was tough talk with the soviet union, but there was also Iran contra. I personally think the GREATEST americans were the framers of the US Constitution, our founding fathers.

Answer 10

Most of the names of the greatest patriots have been forgotten since the names of dead soldiers often are.

Spare me the rhetoric.