America Wisin' Up!

José;3350303 said:
Originally posted by Political Chic
And how about this one, too...

"How the Russians invented baseball and other essays of enlightenment."
John Leo.

LOL, PC...

Well, I'm old enough to remember what the most renowned experts on the Soviet bloc said when Gorby came to power. They all said in unison:

"There will be no major changes to the policies pursued by his predecessors."

"The country is firmly under the control of the communist party."

etc, etc, etc...

The Soviet Union collapsed thanks to the personal convictions of a leader that belonged to a new generation of Soviet leaders contrary to what all the "experts" wrote about him.

Now if you say America (the country, from 1917 to 1990, not one president in particular), with her wonderful example of how an open society look like and her material support for democracies in Europe and Asia, made a huge contribution to the demise of that authoritarian ideology I will agree with you wholeheartedly.

"SO ON WHOM or what do we bestow the title of the "evil empire's" killer? Was it Mikhail Gorbachev himself who pulled down what Lenin and Stalin had built up? It is tempting to finger Gorbachev, but this would ascribe too much wisdom and foresight to a man who wanted merely to reform, but not to relinquish, the empire. At no point, however, did Gorbachev want to yield Moscow's pride of place as the number two superpower. And he was blissfully confident that the risks were tolerable: "There is no reason to fear the collapse or the end of socialism", Gorbachev assured Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu three weeks after the Berlin Wall had been breached and three weeks before the Romanian dictator was executed by his own people.

Reagan was made from far sterner stuff than was his Soviet counterpart. His genial grin and wise-cracking demeanor concealed a spine of steel when push came to shove. Yet at their next meeting in Reykjavik in 1986, where Gorbachev would not budge on the "Star Wars" question, Reagan was decisive and unforgiving. He recalls in An American Life how he stood up from the table to proclaim that the meeting was over. Then he turned to his Secretary of State: "Let's go, George. We're leaving." Like any good diplomat, Shultz was crushed by so much roughness, but Reagan was completely unfazed. Later on, he explained: "I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things, our freedom and our future."The "amazing and mysterious" life of Ronald Reagan - page 6
(emphasis mine)
 
SFW?

A poll in March 2003 showed a full 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was somehow behind the 9-11 attacks.

That 70% is putty in the hand of the experienced propaganda tool known (to the 70%) as the Liberal Media.

So...you would have said the same thing if the current President has won?
 
Washington and FDR

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington


"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible."
George Washington

"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it."
George Washington


"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
George Washington


"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
George Washington


"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth."
George Washington


Yeah TM, you and George are 2 peas ina pod...
 

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