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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:41 PM Original message |
"...I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America..." |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. Now that is ironic. When did he say that? During the campaign or lately? |
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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. He said it talking to the Reno Gazette editorial board in January '08. n/t. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. I remember watching that with my jaw on the floor. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. The 1990s was an incredibly entrepreneurial decade. The '80s not so much. |
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DURHAM D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 05:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. +1000. "is not my kind of person" nt |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. If you cannot calmly see the intellectual point he was making then I cannot help you |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Please list, calmly and intellectually, the excesses of the 1960s-1970s that make the quote sensible |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:51 PM Original message |
We've already had that debate |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 03:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Intellectually and historically, he was just as wrong. |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 07:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. possibly the most blatantly error laden rubbish post i have read in weeks |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. You beat me to it. I've been frankly astonished at some of the sheer intellectual dishonesty I've |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 07:53 PM Response to Reply #25 |
36. you are so right |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Yoo-hoo! Post #17 awaits your refutation - oh, wait: bare facts are not things easy to refute. |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
23. If you can't see deliberate sucking up to selfish neo-feudalism here, you're missing the point |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:11 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. So, President Obama was engaged in the moral equivalent of praising Adolf Hitler. It that it? |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:31 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. Crush all opposition, stoop to the lowest form of character assassination and feign indignation |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
4. We've already had that debate. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. wow, recycling poutrage from the primaries. |
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laststeamtrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I've never understood what you pinheads mean by 'poutrage'. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:58 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. you're pouting and outraged. and peddling some dishonest crap. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. That comment made it harder for me to vote for Obama than anyone I've ever voted for before. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. That comment was a big red flag that really upset me... |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 07:11 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. It is not praising Reagan to intellectually discuss why he won |
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paulsby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 07:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. this from a guy who said |
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andym (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. Reagan was incredibly fortunate that Paul Volcker (Jimmy Carter's man at the Fed) |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. He's right for the wrong reason |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
13. The GOP owned Ronnie....he made GREED OK...many corp takeovers, borrowed |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yes, he was mocking civil rights. |
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m3e92man8850 (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 02:49 AM Response to Original message |
22. towards the toilet |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 09:48 AM Response to Original message |
24. Impossible when big corporate blobs smother small businesses and entrepreneurs |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 10:13 AM Response to Original message |
28. That's a misreading |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
29. Nixon definitely changed the trajectory of America. |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
30. This was an important signal of what was to come. |
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Honeycombe8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
31. This is over the line. I'm upset, too. But logo that he's an asshole is over the line. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
32. One of my favorite Obama quotes. |
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secondwind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
33. DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!.......... |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
34. He did. |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-19-09 05:40 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. K&R |
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