Anyone who was paying attention when Reagan was in office could tell there was something wrong with him. He was obviously in secondary stages of Alzheimer's. Don't you feel in an alternate universe when Republicans credit him with achievements he obviously did not have the mental capacity to accomplish?
2007-12-31 17:25:15 · 20 answers · asked by dsgrntld1 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Kind of yes....he defeated the Soviet union....kills me...what a load of crap...I was there working with Polish Solidarity...and Reagan made a speech...that's all a speech and a huge deficit...and then they claimed he defeats USSR.....my god...millions of citizen took to the streets. defy government, troops refuse to shoot peaceful demonstrators, then they bring troops from Eastern Russia, Siberians and they don't shoot either....hysteria sets in for a week or two in Russia the Boris Yeltsin on the tanks at Soviet Congress building and BANG....Reagan won the war?WTF......Oh yea then Missles to Iran...and contras. GREAT.
2007-12-31 17:36:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 6⤋
Reagan was a neocon pretending to be conservative for the tv cameras. He was only doing what he was used to in his previous Hololywood job!
To bad Hitler-esque control is the neocon dream.
They must have loved him supplying arms to terrorists and dictators. Oh yeah, to Reagan, they were "freedom fighters"!
2008-01-01 02:36:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Carter lost get over it!
2008-01-01 02:22:26 · answer #3 · answered by token1112 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Blaming the Repubs for the depression is like blaming McDonalds for our fat asses. It's called scapegoating. Stock market gamblers caused the depression, and Roosevelt threw us into a war that makes Iraq look like a bar room brawl just to put laborers back to work. You better look a little deeper than the swill you're fed as historical "facts". A word of caution though, you may not like what you find! But then we never were a people to let a little truth stand in the way were we!
2008-01-01 02:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've never been a big fan of Reagan but I have to disagree with what you're saying. He may have been showing signs of the illness towards the end of his presidency and after, like when he testified at the Poindexter trial. But he wasn't incapacitated for 8 years.
2008-01-01 01:54:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
people forget the stock market crash and savings and loans crash and great recession and then the lame excuse they came up with to get us out of it by starting world war 2.1 [cause it was world war 2 that finally got us out of the conservative created great depression.]
2008-01-01 01:48:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 4⤋
Umm no considering how much Carter sucked.I remember only being able to buy gas on even or odd days.Has that happened lately.Have you even been around for 20 years.
Stay in school.
2008-01-01 01:40:58 · answer #7 · answered by ak6702 7 · 5⤊ 6⤋
There was nothing wrong with the greatest president in US history, He didn't get Alzheimer's until he left office. He united this country and saved us from Jimmy Carters mess. So bite me and have a happy new year!
2008-01-01 01:34:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 8⤋
And yet he still kicked Carter's butt and was voted in a second term too. You got punked,McSpineless!
2008-01-01 01:33:13 · answer #9 · answered by Poseidon 3 · 7⤊ 6⤋
Yes, it IS annoying.
He was amiable and likeable but geez he's not like the 2nd coming of Christ or anything.
Carter got the hostages freed (and never took the credit or got the credit for it). The end of the cold war was in play before Reagan took office and had as much to do with the internal USSR problems (the failed war in Afghanistan) as anything Reagan did.
But, I mean, if you think about it, who else can the glorify?
(They should glorify Eisenhower). All they have is Lincoln and it's not a party known for their tolerance of minorities or any race besides Caucasian.
2008-01-01 01:33:08 · answer #10 · answered by Jackie Oh! 7 · 4⤊ 6⤋
Yes, for the exact same reason that you have given. Alzheimer's illness can take anywhere from 4 to 15 years to claim their victim. And considering that you could tell something was wrong tells you that he indeed was sick and should not have been in the position that he was in.
I think that is what scares me most of all...they have taken advantage of the situation where he was sick verses telling the American people about it and having him step down.
Good point about how he could never have "brought down" Russia without being able to remember simple things.
2008-01-01 01:30:44 · answer #11 · answered by Fedup Veteran 6 · 5⤊ 5⤋