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Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan!

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As we celebrate today the 95th anniversary of the birth on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois of Ronald Wilson Reagan, we recall the leadership and vision of the greatest American president of the second half of the twentieth century.

Let us remember this great man as he wanted to be remembered:

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.

It’s been well over a year since we lost him, but his memory still lives in our hearts. Let us hope it inspires our leaders in Washington, the various state capitals and in nations around the world.

Thank you, Mr. President. And Happy Birthday!

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

Comments

  2. Ralph, ralph, ralph… where to begin with that kind of nonsense?

    The best part of recognizing the RR contribution to America’s conservative movement and America’s restoration on the world stage as Leader of the Free World is that those contributions continue to grow 25 years after he became President… his legacy wasn’t just 8 yrs –it’ll be a generation or more.

    Compare that to JimminyCricketCarter who’s on TV these days talking about the block of antique persimmon wood he’s using to build furniture. Ha!

  6. Hey, I call ’em like I see ’em. A Goldwater Republican, i.e. states righter in 1964 means the continuation of Jim Crow. Didn’t like Reagan back in ’81 and don’t give a rats *ss about him now.

  7. Ralph, you’re a fool. I had a lot of problems with the policies of the Reagan Administrtion. BUT Ronald Reagan was a decent man who did not have a racist bone in his body nor an evil thought in his mind.

  8. jack allen, you’re a fool. eric in hollyweird is an ignorant slut. you guys illustrate the lack of civility in the country. You can disagree with a statement but attacking the person shows lack of respect.

    yes, sadly negroes are not allowed in the bright shining city on the hill.

    In 1984, he successfully campaigned for reelection on a “Morning in America” theme. But his presidency was a long and dreary night for African Americans. Consider this record. Reagan:

    Appointed conservative judges, like Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who continue to issue rulings to the detriment of African Americans. Walters notes that just 2 percent of Reagan’s judicial appointments were black. (YET WE ARE 12% of the POPULATION)

    Began his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss., near the site where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. (NOT A GOOD WAY TO ENDEAR YOURSELF TO THE AFRICAN_AMERICAN COMMUNITY)

    Supported racism with remarks like those that characterized poor, black women as “welfare queens.” (DESPITE THE FACT THAT AT THE TIME AND FOR MULTIPLE YEARS BEFORE AND MANY YEARS AFTER LEFT OFFICE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ON WELFARE WERE WHITE WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN)

    Fired U.S. Commission on Civil Rights members who were critical of his civil rights policies, including his strong opposition to affirmative action programs. One of the commissioners, Mary Frances Berry, who now chairs the Commission, recalls that the judge who overturned the dismissal did so because “you can’t fire a watchdog for biting.”

    Sought to limit and gut the Voting Rights Act.

    Slashed important programs like the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) that provided needed assistance to black people.

    Appointed people like Clarence Thomas, who later became a horrible Supreme Court Justice, to the Equal Opportunity Commission; William Bradford Reynolds, as assistant attorney general for civil rights; and others who implemented policies that hurt black people.

    Doubted the integrity of civil rights leaders, saying, “Sometimes I wonder if they really mean what they say, because some of those leaders are doing very well leading organizations based on keeping alive the feeling that they’re victims of prejudice.”

    Tried to get a tax exemption for Bob Jones University, which was then a segregated college in South Carolina.

    Defended former Sen. Jesse Helms’ “sincerity” when that arch villain of black interest questioned Martin Luther King’s loyalty.

    So I stand corrected, Ronald W. Reagan, he no racist, he just hates black people.

  9. #9

    You just keep believing that, Ralph, as you lap lovingly at the twat of the DNC which keeps you on their plantation. While you suck up to those who won’t dare put a black man (or woman) on the Supreme Court, just ignore who filibustered the Civil Rights Act. Forget about who conducted “domestic surveillance” of Dr. King. Forget about who tried to keep Meredith out of UM.
    Just keep feeding at the trough of the party who won’t put blacks in prominent positions. You say Powell and Rice are “Yes Men”, but the DNC sure as hell won’t take the chance of letting a “nigger” be a yes man.
    You just keep dancing and playing step & fetch when marse DNC demands it. Keep sucking up to the people who made damn sure that the “poor blacks” in New Orleans stayed that way. Just keep supporting the party that has fought tooth and nail to keep you down and keeps you dependent on their benevolance. Keep supporting the people who tell you you can’t do a damn thing without the racism and sexism of Affirmative Action because you’re too fucking stupid to make it on your own. You keep playing the victim. Keep whining “oh woe’s me! I can’t make it in life without sucking at the tit of marse Democrats!”.

    Keep sucking at the tit of those who tell you “you’re just a dumb nigger, you can’t make it without us” and turn away from those who tell you that “everyone can be who and what they want to be.” Keep sucking on the tit of those who would keep you down because you can’t do a damn thing without them. Keep living on that plantation and dreaming for that 40 acres and a mule hand-me-down from Uncle Sugar.

    Just keep believing the lies of those who keep you as a porch monkey and see who’s the bigger fool.

  10. You Fucking Gay Conservative. There is no need for that tone, especially since you don’t know me. I personally feel sorry for the crackers who don’t realize African-Americans didn’t get an oppty b/c of the color of their skin. Instead, it had to do with that nasty intellect. Shit, my brothers and I scored better than the 97th percentile to get into an elite private school. So take your cracker ass and suck on that. Personally, I feel sorry for the crackers who think that they were not accepted to a school because they thought the slot went unfairly to a non-white applicant or they did not get a job because the position went to an unqualified applicant. I’m sorry that your cracker ass feels that way but my education and qualifications say otherwise. At the end of the day, you still need to be qualified and show degree of competence. The problem that the bottom crackers have is simple: they simply aren’t as smart as they thought they were and opportunities that they previously enjoyed are now going to qualified racial and ethnic minorities and women. The fuckin’ male cracker monopoly is over – now your cracker ass needs to compete and quite frankly your are riding the short bus.

    And since you have gone there, “Dixiecrat crackers and their kind who would rather African-Americans be seen in a country far, far away worry me more. Personally, the crackers on the right are the worst kind of crackers, b/c they try to hide their cracker ways and make you believe that they want success for all. Truth, those crackers are only care about their crackerselves.”

    And for you mf information, I am no fan of economic policies that effectively keep the wage downs.

  11. Ralph, not only are you an ignorant slut, but you’re also quite the liar as well.

    If you weren’t qualified or educated enough to attain much of anything in your life, don’t make yourself look any more petulant now by fabricating your life and attacking the deceased. You’re thoroughly transparent, and I have absolutely no idea why you wish to post on a gay conservative website when you’re clearly neither.

    Please, please, PLEASE tell me you don’t live in Los Angeles – we have enough hate-filled bullshit artists out here already.

    Eric in Hollywood

  13. True. I am neither gay nor conservative; so as to why I post here, Bruce announced his blog to the masses on another list. We have mutual friends, I recall his days on the Hill. I remember back in the day when he took a beat down for Bert and Ernie. In short, I like Bruce. He’s a good man. I may not like all his politics but that doesn’t mean I dislike the man.

    In short, Bruce is a decent person, and I like diversity of thought. For the record, there is no such thing as either a conservative, right winger, republican etc or liberal, left winger democrat etc with a monopoly on good ideas.

    Yes, I believe is social programs, but I want results. Throwing money at the problem without measuring the results is just plan stupid. For that matter, our government needs to be held accountable. As an African-American in this society, I probably come at issues different than a white person. You walk through an African-American community their is a responsibility of each one teach one, village to raise a child. My observation, descendants of white Europeans tend to think more of pull oneself up by their bootstraps. So I may believe in a certain degree of taxes, but given my capital gains and income, I am not about to pay higher taxes if I don’t have to.

    Furthermore, I have no desire to get a bigger portion of a fixed pie. I’d take a smaller portion of a bigger pie any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Thing is I am simply heldback by the least productive members of this society. To the extent they are not contributing they are a drain on my pocket. Since I don’t advocate shipping their non-productive butts to some European outpost, I want programs and policies in place that give these individuals opportunities.

    Sp please Eric, tell me which part I fabricated. The record speaks for itself. Bruce knows where I obtained my undergraduate degree, and he may even know where I obtained my master’s degree. About the only thing he doesn’t know is what prep school I attended. But at 6 in the morning, I see the n* word thrown about in an irresponsible manner -yeah I am going after someone’s arse.

    And to clarify the record it is not today’s Republican Party, who has its origins in Goldwater states righters and Dixiecrats is not the same party that freed the slaves.

  14. Now THAT, Ralph, was a well-stated argument! I may completely disagree with your position, but simply posting “another dead racist” pales in comparison with what you’ve written above.

    In addition, I apologize for the tone of my responses to your original post. I won’t make excuses for them, but I’m glad you took the time to state your case clearly.

    Eric

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