Reagan July 4, 1986

The nothingness that is Obama's speech om July 4, 2011 ................ The Me--Ssaih speaks .... fore!

Ronald Reagan, Statue of Liberty

1980 Reagan Announces his candidacy.





American Rhetoric posted the transcript:

You’re right. The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. Eight million — eight million out of work. Inflation running at 18 percent in the first quarter of this year. Black unemployment at 14 percent, higher than any single year since the government began keeping separate statistics. Four straight major deficits run up by Carter and his friends in Congress. The highest interest rates since the Civil War, reaching at times close to 20 percent, lately they’re down to more than 11 percent but now they’ve begun to go up again. Productivity falling for six straight quarters among the most productive people in the world.

Through his inflation he has raised taxes on the American people by 30 percent, while their real income has risen only 20 percent. The Lady standing there in the harbor has never betrayed us once. But this Administration in Washington has betrayed the working men and women of this country.

The President promised that he would not increase taxes for the low and middle-income people, the workers of America. Then he imposed on American families the largest single tax increase in our nation’s history. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we’re “only” in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions, words, relieve our suffering.

Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well if it’s a definition — if it’s a definition he wants, I’ll give him one. A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Ronald Reagan`s Funny Answer

No teleprompter, no need for a 100k of taxpayer funds to pay for teleprompter tutor-ledge either.

What Reagan Did

It's all about the optics, isn't it?

President Reagan's Address to the Nation on U.S. Air Strike against Libya - 4/14/86

Notice the Oval Office address to the American people explaining everything.

And how Obaby did it? Here is Obaby engaging in street soccer in the slums of Brazil ... While playing president.

Slight difference that you may not at first detect. Which is a real president? And which is the boy? Which do you want???

Reagen Advises Obama

Uh, oh this is why?

Know your daddy ... Saudis told Obama to back Mubarak

Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to humiliate Mr Mubarak and warned that he would step in to bankroll Egypt if the US withdrew its aid programme, worth $1.5 billion annually. America’s closest ally in the Gulf made clear that the Egyptian President must be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition towards peaceful democracy and then leave with dignity. “Mubarak and King Abdullah are not just allies, they are close friends, and the King is not about to see his friend cast aside and humiliated,” a senior source in the Saudi capital told The Times.

Next time bow better, the posture is ugly, even for a song and dance man.



The world knows, Obama, the world knows who you are. You aren't fooling anyone ... The world's fool.

BTW: What seat in the caliphate did they promise you?

Happy Birthday, Mr president

Reagan Float At Rose Parade

  Former President Ronald Reagan — a two-term governor of the Golden State — will be featured in a special float at the New Year’s Day event

CNN says that this is ”the first time that the Rose Parade has ever included a presidential-themed float.”

Reagan done in Jelly Bellys from the Jelly Belly company lobby portrait.

Reagan’s float will be 55 feet long and 26 feet high, featuring photos from throughout Reagan’s life. The float will be sponsored by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and made possible by Jelly Belly, maker of Reagan’s favorite candy. 

It's A New Time Of Choosing

The GOP is going on the offense -- This comes from the Republican Study Committee, which is headed, if I have the information right, by Rep. Tom Price of Georgia.

“Well I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers” Ronald Reagan






For those of you not familiar, this is from Reagan's speech on October 27, 1964. It is called "A Time for Choosing".

It is about 29 minutes long, please watch the rest of it. Help you find your way.

Where will America find it's next Reagan?

Another Billboard Mystery In Minnesota ...

A billboard has appeared in Minnesota featuring a photograph of former President Ronald Reagan and the words, “Remember real hope and change?”

The billboard, first reported by Ed Morrissey at the blog Hot Air, is reminiscent of the “Miss Me Yet?” billboard that appeared in Minnesota last month.

Happy 99th Ronald Reagan ....

Today is the 99th anniversary of the birth of the greatest American in living memory!

“You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down.”

– Ronald Reagan from “A Time for Choosing” October 27, 1964 (video, text)

Reagan -- The Speech

A Time for Choosing, also known as "The Speech", was presented on a number of speaking occasions during the 1964 U.S. presidential election campaign by Ronald Reagan on behalf of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater.

Reagan

Gingrich wants a big tent to include the liberal in New York. Let’s quote Reagan back to Gingrich, shall we? From his seminal 1975 CPAC address:

Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.

Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.

Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.

Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.

And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”

We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Read the whole thing at the link above.

Reagan's Timeless Wit

October 27, 1964 (from his nationally televised speech, which he called "A Time for Choosing" but was later simply referred to as "The Speech," in support of candidate Barry Goldwater) Talking about the former Soviet Union.

"If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation." - Ronald Reagan

"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

Obummber, we may have stepped in it this time.

Reagan's Farewell Address

Complete text here -- the prescription, common sense. Things like if oil supply is short, drill for more.

Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So, we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before. The economy bloomed like a plant that had been cut back and could now grow quicker and stronger. Our economic program brought about the longest peacetime expansion in our history: real family income up, the poverty rate down, entrepreneurship booming, and an explosion in research and new technology. We're exporting more than ever because American industry became more competitive and at the same time, we summoned the national will to knock down protectionist walls abroad instead of erecting them at home. Common sense also told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe.

"in which the people of America created--and filled--19 million new jobs."

"cut taxes and regulation, started to cut spending. And soon the recovery began."

One last nugget of truth ...

Let's start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me offer lesson No. 1 about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.

Reagan -- class act, great American.

Footnote: The Democrats resisted cutting spending at every turn. And government never created one useful job.

How Did We Lose Our Way, Reagan 1964