Today would have been his 105th birthday.



"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears: to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way." (1992)

Quote"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears:

Literally in direct contrast to the emotion Trump plays on. Despite his claim of making America great again, he's playing on the base emotions of fear and anger.
America is still great, that has not changed, and electing a lib like Trump is not going to improve it.
Had Reagan met with Trump, he'd have commented most likely that Trump represents the worst side of what an American is, a liberal.

Quote from: quiller on February 06, 2016, 02:11:09 AM
Today would have been his 105th birthday.



"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears: to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way." (1992)

Well Reagan would be sad to see how our youth is full force in support in outright Socialism.

Actually, Ronald Reagan is the last person I consider President.

Quote from: Chosen Daughter on February 06, 2016, 10:37:15 AM
Well Reagan would be sad to see how our youth is full force in support in outright Socialism.

Reagan appointed the National Commission on Excellence in Education,
who in 1983 produced the report, A Nation at Risk.

The report began with:
"the educational foundations of our society
are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity
that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people"
and
"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America
the mediocre educational performance that exists today,
we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

The report made numerous recommendations for improvement.
The teachers' union and Congress blocked nearly every one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_at_Risk

Quote from: je_freedom on February 06, 2016, 11:29:19 AM
Reagan appointed the National Commission on Excellence in Education,
who in 1983 produced the report, A Nation at Risk.

The report began with:
"the educational foundations of our society
are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity
that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people"
and
"If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America
the mediocre educational performance that exists today,
we might well have viewed it as an act of war."

The report made numerous recommendations for improvement.
The teachers' union and Congress blocked nearly every one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_at_Risk

Yes NEA and Cradle to Grave education.  And we also fund our Communist Universities to educate our kids to embrace European Communist ideals.  If people knew how much money we are investing to indoctrinate our children to embrace communism they would be shocked.  It is hard for a parent to want to invest in a proper education when you know they may come out with Communist views.

Quote from: Charliemyboy on February 06, 2016, 11:23:02 AM
Actually, Ronald Reagan is the last person I consider President.

How's that?

The last real President we had was Reagan. Everyone else was just a pretender (most recently, even more so).

Quote from: quiller on February 07, 2016, 01:38:15 AM
The last real President we had was Reagan. Everyone else was just a pretender (most recently, even more so).

Yes, Quiller.  That's what I meant. You said it better.

Too bad Fuddy was banned. He would be trolling the hell out of this thread

Quote from: Charliemyboy on February 07, 2016, 10:15:47 AM
Yes, Quiller.  That's what I meant. You said it better.

LOL, now I get what you meant.
Yes, every POTUS since has been an impostor.

Quote from: Charliemyboy on February 06, 2016, 11:23:02 AM
Actually, Ronald Reagan is the last person I consider President.

Yup!  Everytime I try to come up with a word to "qualify" that statement, I'd wind up writing a paragraph.

He's the last man who best represented my hope, and aspiration for the country I'd want my children to grow up in.  How far.. we have fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kJ7VPJnmI


Couldn't do this today...

Quote from: The Boo Man... on February 07, 2016, 10:24:56 AM
Too bad Fuddy was banned. He would be trolling the hell out of this thread

This would have been a perfect meltdown thread for him.

Quote from: The Boo Man... on February 07, 2016, 03:38:50 PM

Couldn't do this today...