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A few quotes from the Gipper

DO YOU MISS THIS GUY?

'Here's my strategy on the Cold War:
We win, they lose.'- Ronald Reagan

'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'-Ronald Reagan

'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' Ronald Reagan

'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'- Ronald Reagan

'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U..S. Congress.' - Ronald Reagan

'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.' - Ronald Reagan

'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.' - Ronald Reagan

'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.' Ronald Reagan

'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.' - Ronald Reagan

'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' - Ronald Reagan

'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' - Ronald Reagan

'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'- Ronald Reagan

'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'- Ronald Reagan

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Will you just get over

Submitted by MikePatton on Tue, 06/02/2009 - 12:40am.

Will you just get over Ronald Reagan. He is dead. He is never coming back.

Yea TinCan, I really do miss Reagan

Submitted by Robert W. Morgan on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 5:14am.

He was a real leader and maybe not as slick as Clinton or Obama, but who needs slick if instead you have someone the world fears and the citizens respect? We now have an empty suit for our President who acts like he's on American Idol every day. One term, baby.

The best Reagan quote "If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it...." Does this apply to the auto companies? the banks? what else? Words to live by under PrezBO and his clown VP.

And then there is Joe Biden ...

Submitted by MacTheKnife on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:12am.

Forgive the cut and paste, but here a few quotes of our Vice President taken from and article by Bill Sammon.

-- On March 13, 2009, Biden addressed a former Senate colleague by saying, "An hour late, oh give me a f**king break," after he arrived on Amtrak at Union Station in Washington, D.C. The vice president's expletive was caught on a live microphone.

-- During a Feb. 25, 2009, interview on CBS' "Early Show," Biden encouraged viewers to visit a government-run Web site that tracks stimulus spending. When asked for the site's web address, Biden could not remember the site's "number."

"You know, I'm embarrassed. Do you know the Web site number?" he asked an aide standing out of view. "I should have it in front of me and I don't. I'm actually embarrassed."

-- At a Jan. 30, 2009, swearing-in ceremony of senior White House staff, Biden mocked Chief Justice John Roberts for his presidential oath blunder on Inauguration Day.

"Am I doing this again?" Biden said, after Obama asked him to administer the oath. When Biden was told the swearing-in was for senior staff -- and not cabinet members -- the vice president quipped, "My memory is not as good as Justice Roberts," prompting a stern nudge from Obama.

-- On Inauguration Day, Jan. 20 2009, Biden misspoke when he told a cheering crowd of supporters, "Jill and I had the great honor of standing on that stage, looking across at one of the great justices, Justice Stewart." Justice John Paul Stevens -- not Stewart -- swore Biden in as vice president.

-- When criticizing former GOP nominee John McCain in Athens, Ohio, on Oct. 15, 2008, Biden said, "Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs."

-- In a Sept. 22, 2008, CBS interview, Biden misspoke when he said Franklin D. Roosevelt was president when the stock market crashed in 1929.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened," he said. Herbert Hoover -- not Roosevelt -- was president in 1929, and television had not yet been invented in 1929.

-- During a Sept. 12, 2008, speech in Columbia, Mo., Biden called for Missouri State Sen. Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to "stand up."

"Oh, God love ya," Biden said, after realizing his mistake. "What am I talking about?"

-- At a Sept. 10, 2008, town hall meeting in Nashua, N.H., Biden said, "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me."

-- Biden mistakenly referred to Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the "lieutenant governor" of her state during a town hall meeting on Sept. 4, 2008 at George Mason University in Manassas, Va.

"I heard a very, by the way I mean this sincerely, a very strong and a very good political speech from a lieutenant governor of Alaska who I think is going to be very formidable, very formidable not only in the campaign but in the debate," Biden said.

-- Biden said he was running for president -- not vice president -- during a Sept. 1, 2008, roundtable discussion in Scranton, Pa.

"Today is the moment for me as a United States senator running for president to put aside the national politics and focus on what's happening down there," Biden said.

-- Biden referred to John McCain as "George" during his vice presidential acceptance speech on Aug. 27, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Co. "Freudian slip, folks, Freudian slip," he explained.

-- Biden confused army brigades with battalions when speaking about Obama's plan for sending troops to Afghanistan.

"Or should we trust Barack Obama, who more than a year ago called for sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan?"

-- During his first campaign rally with Obama as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 23, 2008, Biden introduced Obama by saying, "A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States -- Barack America!"

-- On Jan. 31, 2007 -- the day Biden announced his presidential bid -- the Delaware Senator was roundly criticized for calling Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."

Maybe we can give Joey Biden Mr. Obama's teleprompter if he ever decides to actually speak without it.

Hey JMart.....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 9:26am.

It's getting even better. Seems the honeymoon period has ended. A little bit of friction has surfaced:

"President Obama is so "distracted by his vice president's indiscipline" that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Joe Biden, according to a new book by Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe, who interviewed Obama a dozen times.

"He can't keep his mouth shut," Wolffe quotes a "senior Obama aide" as saying of the gaffe-prone Biden in "Renegade: The Making of a President," set for release June 2."

Good stuff

Ronald Reagan

Submitted by carbonunit52 on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 5:53pm.

Another famous, or maybe not, quote from Ronnie: "I don't remember-period".
At the time, I thought that Reagan's major accomplishment, in terms of the history of the presidency, was that he made Grant look good. Since then of course, George W has made Reagan look good, relatively speaking. I suppose that if you don't count things such as selling arms to Iran, supporting the thugs called Contras, firing the air traffic controllers, gutting alternate energy initiatives, and being the chief architect of the economic house of cards that recently came tumbling down, he was marvelous.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

Hey Carbon....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 8:59pm.

In the spirit of equal time, why don't you regale us all with some of the lowlights of a couple of Democratic presidents? Could you start with Slick Willie and Monica (the human humidor) spreading bodily fluids all over the Oval Office and his subsequent impeachment? Then could you remind us all about LBJ, his wiretapping and the Vietnam War? That ought to hold us for a while.....

hey moc

Submitted by carbonunit52 on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 9:24pm.

this was not a president bashing thread, although I do think that LBJ ranks right up there with the sleaziest, and Slick Willie was smitten by a tell all seductress when he should have known better, but go ahead with the equal time thing if you think it will help Reagan's legacy.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

Carbon.....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 10:14pm.

"this was not a president bashing thread...."

You are kidding, right? Reread your original post slamming Grant, Reagan and Bush and then run that one by me again.

moc....

Submitted by carbonunit52 on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 5:04am.

It appears to me that my original post in this thread about Reagan quotes was on the subject of Reagan, and I am not kidding either.

It's not easy being the carbonunit

carbon

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:40am.

Uhhh.....OK.

While at the same time Newt

Submitted by Xiphosura on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 9:59pm.

While at the same time Newt was doing the same thing. Thought he could hide behind the oral sex moniker.

Thanks for playing....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 10:18pm.

but we were discussing presidents. Having said that, I'll bet Newt knew what the meaning of "is" was.....

Reagan...

Submitted by Main Stream on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 6:01pm.

voted for him...twice.

I liked his quote "ketchup is a vegetable" the best.

The Contra scandal turned me into a Dem. Thanks Ronnie.

Trust us Main....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 9:09pm.

You aren't missed, at all. By the way, you misspelled what you turned into. The correct spelling is "dimwit", not "Dem".

Mean old sensitive conservative. Of course Main isn't missed.

Submitted by diva on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 11:54pm.

And Arlen won't be missed. Colin won't be missed. Olympia won't be missed. Heck! None of the thousands of Pennsylvania republicans who are now dems won't be missed. You will just keep losing and losing and saying how great Reagan was no matter the economic reality of his deficit spending or his pro amnesty policies. that is FINE with us democrats. How do you not see it? We are MORE THAN HAPPY to watch you stuck in the past types lose over and over again; College grads. Women. Minorities. independent votes.

Please, MOC: Stay true to your principles.

please.

so true, diva...

Submitted by Main Stream on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:13am.

Their tent gets smaller and smaller and their reaction is to get madder and madder, as seen in so many of MOC and Lindsey's responses... wow, such anger Shocked I read recently that the Repub party has declined in numbers mostly from college grads.

Looks like the GOP really has turned into the party of angry white men.....GOP = grumpy old putz (aka MOC, Lindsey, "fred")

Edited & warned for violation of terms of use

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 12:58pm.

the dems party numbers.. Of course not.. You being a Political hack/ideologue.. Theirs are declining just as fast.. at least as reported by that far right wingnut organization known as MSNBC.. The only rise has been in Independents.. So pull your head out of your nether regions and take a breath of fresh air for a change..

Edited & warned for violation of terms of use

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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Hey DM you got your wish..

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:44pm.

Please whine some more maybe Cal will take all the conservatives off for you..
Please cal inform me what exactly and why it was edited.. Looks like a typical cave in.. Fred asks you all the time to edit Diva.. and I get popped for what?? Disagreeing with Mainstream.. Wow grow a set will ya..

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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the Repub crowd "edited and warned" again?!

Submitted by Main Stream on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 2:47pm.

Y'all need to keep your pics and rants clean, and then you won't get "edited and warned." The edit wasn't because y'all disagreed with me... it was that creepy pic of the headless person...

Anywhooooo.... it you get banned, think of it as a blessing in disguise, that you were suddenly cured of your blogging addiction...a remedy cyclist and many of us have been looking for, for years Laughing out loud

Cal - please edit

Submitted by Davids mom on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 1:41pm.

This discussion is beyond acceptable - and certainly not up to Citizen standards. (Note link)

Yes Cal Please edit..

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 2:15pm.

My feelings have been hurt too real bad.. I've been called a wingnut, a Coward, a Liar, and dog gone it.. been threatend to have my taxes audited.. I mean I am close to tears I am in such a frenzy...
Hey DM I would say if you can't stand the heat get out of the Kitchen.. but that's not real pc of me, but oh well who ever said I was pc..
Things get tough here.. if you can't hack it "man up" whoops I did it again and either confront what you don't like or not your choice. This thread is far more benign then most sniffles had.. so what's your beef?

Mainstreams pic of me was a one eyed ogre.. mine of her was a medical condition she commonly has.. What's your point???

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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Hey Main....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 10:46am.

No anger here. I'm watching your side take this country right down the toilet. I won't delight in that, but I'll love smearing it in your face for years to come.

BTW, the anger you seem to perceive is me schooling you every time you try to respond. That's actually superior jousting skills exposing your pitifully weak game. Keep coming back for more dimwit....

GOP = grumpy old putz

Submitted by Main Stream on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:23am.

pic of moc/lindsey

This will help

"grumpy old putz".....Main is now repeating herself.....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 1:04pm.

and then attaching pictures she finds on the internet. That's the extent of her wits. Here is how creative people make you look like a fool so easily.....

MAIN = My Amazingly Inferior Nemesis

I love a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.....loser.

Yawnnnn.. Get w/Sniffles

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 1:02pm.

your pedestrian repartee is seriously lacking in wit and gravitas..
Take a little schooling and come back when you feel up to it..

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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Nosey diva.....

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:34am.

Was I even talking to you diva? Oh, that's right. I always forget that Main's comebacks suck so bad that you and Sniffer feel compelled to try to help her. The liberal enforcers... bwwwaaaahhhh!!!

Oh, you can bet I will stick to my principles. Especially comparing them to yours. You were saying????

My Intelligence

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 8:48pm.

made me an Independent Libertarian.. Not surprised that a petty scandal made you a Dem.. Heck what were you before a Maoist?

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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Selling weapons to terrorist organizations is petty.

Submitted by diva on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 11:58pm.

Misappropriating tax payer money to fund terrorist organizations is "petty." But, if you are a democratic president, merely saying you will meet with Iranians without pre-conditions will cause libertarian independents to have fits.

Who knew?

The DC government has sponsored terrorism since the '50's diva

Submitted by DarthDubious on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:48am.

CIA involvment is documented in Iran 1953.

Saddam in the '80's

Bin Laden in the '80's and '90's

Happy Reading!

In Liberty,

DarthDubious

Submitted by Cyclist on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 5:06pm.

Since the 50's? Teddy Roosevelt stirred the pot to get the Panamanians to revolt against the Colombian government in order to create Panama for which the US got the Panama Canal. Of course we no longer have control of the canal and that's another story.
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My Y chromosome turned me into a conservative!

Submitted by aliquando on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 7:42pm.

If not us, then who?

I knew you were a little off

Submitted by Spyglass on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 7:16pm.

but not that off. Smiling

President Reagan

Submitted by USArmybrat on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 4:55pm.

Still miss him. It felt like losing a close grandfather. America lost a true hero the day he passed.

America lost a true hero the day he passed

Submitted by MajorMike on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:39am.

Ain't that the truth! And surprisingly enough, he still gets the liberals / socialists in this country all riled up.

Regan

Submitted by Xiphosura on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 9:56pm.

This guy had Alzheimer's before he was elected.

and Zena...

Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 8:18am.

you have it now!!!

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS.. Evil

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Who is......

Submitted by meanoldconservatives on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 10:15pm.

"Regan"?????

Who was Ronald Wilson Reagan?

Submitted by diva on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 12:02am.

According to some right wingnuts, you'd be surprised!

I don't agree with this at all, but this just goes to show how people can be lead astray. Obama's a Marxist Muslim. And Reagan was the antichrist. Nuts! Nuts I say!

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