PoliticalChic
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Gorby offered Reagan a deal to end the cold war and Reagan grabbed it. Both Reagan and Gorby are to be commended for making the deal. It was a deal that would never have been offered under Stalin. It was also fortunate that Reagan was a Republican or the boards would be filled with posts explainng how the Democratic president sold out America and worse, was a commie lover and all the rest of the usual tripe.
This is the pap that was fed to followers like you to try to hide the credit that Reagan deserves.
"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."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_77/ai_n6353166/pg_6/?tag=content;col1
So Reagan got outsmarted too? Sounds like the commies outsmarted all the Americans, unless... unless the Americans were secret commies themselves? Hard to to believe, but Reagan did vote for FDR and he did live in Chicago for a time, in fact near the University of Chicago, where Obama taught, and where they worked on you know what at Stagg Field. Now it's becoming clear, Reagan was also a union leader, and he was in the movie business, and got divorced. Reagan also stayed in Hollywood during the war making propaganda films. It's understandable now whyand then meeting Gorbachev and finally making the "deal."
1. "Sounds like the commies outsmarted all the Americans..."
No....they didn't have to 'outsmart' Liberals, Progressives and Democrats.....those folks agreed with everything the communists believed.
2. "Reagan did vote for FDR ..."
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
― Winston Churchill
3. " Reagan tried to destroy our economy with his tripling the debt..."
In a universe of ignorant statements, this one takes the proverbial cake.
Read and learn:
a. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
b. But .the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
c. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries.
George Gilder: The Real Reagan Lesson for Romney-Ryan - WSJ.com
Reaganomics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You should take notes on my posts, reggie.