2007-08-18 09:56:17 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Azwallii
My bias is not always obvious. All the better to take a baseball bat to a hornets nest.
2007-08-18 10:11:24 · update #1
While Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President with the second highest I.Q. of any President in 50 years (Clinton was the first), struggled valiantly to ethically arrange the release of 444 hostages from Iran, Reagan and his gang of thugs were secretly working 'behind-the-scenes' making unethical deals for the hostages' release.
On Reagan's inauguration day, this polished actor gleefully announced that the hostages had entered free air space even as he spoke.
Did he invite Carter to join him at the podium so they could raise their arms in mutual victory? No. Reagan took all the credit.
Only years later did we find out the truth of his arms-for-hostages deal with the Iranians. It became known as the Iran-Contra affair, one of this nation's most shameful scandals of all history.
Reagan wasn't anywhere near being the greatest President of this great nation. In fact, the top five WORST Presidents (#1 being the absolute worst) were:
5. Herbert Hoover
4. Richard Nixon
3. Ronald Reagan
2. George H.W. Bush
1. George W. Bush
-RKO- 08/18/07
2007-08-18 10:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Reagan's death, especially following the tragedy and torture of Alzheimer's disease, likely struck editors and reporters with a responsibility to go easy on the former president. But the overwhelming praise for a president who plunged the nation into its worst deficit ever, ignored and cut public money for the poor, while also ignoring the AIDS crisis, is a bit tough to take. Reagan's policies included slashing federal grants for poor students and cutting survivor benefits for families of the disabled.
Not to mention the Iran-contra scandal, failed 'supply-side economics,' the ludicrous invasion of Grenada, 241 dead Marines in Lebanon, and a costly military buildup that may have contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union (there were plenty of other reasons too) but also kept us closer to nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, besides leaving us billions of dollars in debt.
And should we even mention the many senior Reagan officials, including ex-White House aide Michael Deaver and national security adviser Robert McFarlane, convicted of various offenses? What about Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger indicted but later pardoned by the first President Bush?
2007-08-18 17:20:14 · answer #2 · answered by Middleclassandnotquiet 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Reagan was NOT America's greatest president. Have you forgotten Lincoln, both Roosevelts, Washington?
2007-08-18 18:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you say he was America's "greatest president," you're already making your biases obvious. He's not even in the top 10. Reagan put America in debt through tax cuts that disproportionately favoured the rich and through a huge increase in military funding. He funded the mujaheddin in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviet Union; the mujaheddin eventually morphed into Al Qaeda and attacked the Twin Towers.
2007-08-18 17:07:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Iran-Contra scandal......very "B-type" hammy actor...divorced the beautiful Jane Wyman....married Nancy (Mommy) Davis....as a young New Deal Democrat, flipped to join the Republican Party...Great looks, but who can forget his sickbed line, delivered with ham, "Win on for the Gipper."
2007-08-18 17:44:34 · answer #5 · answered by ArRo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He put into effect the largest single tax raise in the history of the United States.
2007-08-18 17:39:58 · answer #6 · answered by Glenn G 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No he wasn't. The man spend ridiulouse amounts of money. Between him and bush I don't know who was worse. What ever happened to conservative spending that republicans used to ramble about.
2007-08-18 17:17:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he funded the militaries of Central American nations who in turn killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Indian peasants. He was willing to sell arms to Iran (illegally, without Congressional approval) to fund right--wing groups in Latin America.
2007-08-18 17:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
reagan adminstration had the most people convicted---in other words, the most crooked administration.
But actually Bush is more crooked, but they have been slicker and not gotten caught
2007-08-18 20:25:27 · answer #9 · answered by bush l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You won't hear anything bad about The Gipper from me.
2007-08-18 17:03:43 · answer #10 · answered by Cogito Ergo Sum 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋