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In reply to the discussion: This great president has never been recognized at its fair value [View all]First Speaker
(4,858 posts)20. He was and is a great man...but he was not a great President.
His political instincts were askew, and he simply couldn't swim thru the cesspool in Washington very well. The best example is the so-called "malaise" speech. This word never appeared in it, the term was invented by the media and eagerly embraced by the GOP. But he and his team simply weren't able to cope with all crap thrown against the speech, and the term stuck--another example of the "Liberal Media" at work. And of course, he had damnably bad luck--maybe the worst of any President, except possibly Hoover. The best analogy to him would probably be John Quincy Adams--if asked to name the two best human beings who have ever been President, I'd choose them. But neither of them would rank high on my lists of Presidents...
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He also gave up his career as engineer on a nuclear submarine to run that peanut farm
csziggy
Apr 2018
#1
Agree - great post about a great president. The lesser people try to besmirch anyone
erronis
Apr 2018
#17
This sounds like a "horse race" for goodness. The repuglicans are working on the other end. nt
erronis
Apr 2018
#18
He had great policies, didn't he? Unfortunately he suffered from what I call
PatrickforO
Apr 2018
#11
This is a case of a man being ahead of his time. The country was not willing to make sacrifices.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#10
You are correct. I meant the % of the country who went via Reagan and bought the lies.
dameatball
Apr 2018
#25
All Reagan had to do was tell the privileged how great they were and their lives could be perfect
Boomerproud
Apr 2018
#29
Not such a great president, but one of the very best of all human beings!
democratisphere
Apr 2018
#51