1984 Presidential Candidate Debate: President Reagan and Walter Mondale - 10/21/84

[1980icca]

20:50??? 33:30 is the best!!! hahaha

I like 53:05 also!!!!

[RyogaXvX]

Thank you! I was looking all over for this!

[df393]

20:50 

[DoubleGauss]

From Ronald Wilson Reagan ...... to baraq hussein obama. How could this happen ???

[politicalsplashtube]

What? There use to be two great super powers? Wow!

[ChihuahuaboyDH]

Walter Mondale: "Both President Reagan & myself have said we have a plan for raising taxes. The only difference is he won't tell you he will raise taxes, I just did".

Not a statement to make if you want to win the American people over, Mr. Mondale! It is because of the content stated by Ronald Reagan in both debates the reason why he cleaned Mondale's clock in the general election two weeks after the final debate here! Mondale only won D.C. & his home state of Minnesota. R.I.P., Ronnie.

[vccstudents]

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponents youth and inexperience."

When Ronnie said that, I looked at my girlfriend at the time, a Mondale supporter, and said, "SLAM DUNK! GAME OVER!" And IT WAS!

[1990osu]

"Wow how nice to have an actual adult in charge"'

Seconded.

[babykevinxoxo]

was Mondale? tough on defense What was his ideas?

[Trauncher]

History shows that EVERY point made by Mondale was wrong.

[bigchunk1]

54:00

[1980icca]

Call me crazy...... But the 3 spots in this debate "21 minutes, 33 minutes and 53 minutes" I look at a lot and laugh everytime!!!!

[jeepthing98]

@1980icca  I just cracked up at 39:55.

[collingsm]

Wow - sympathy for illegal immigrants, desire for peace, support for arms control...I'm not sure Reagan would survive in today's GOP

[AlexanderRozhenko]

@collingsm Sympathy for illegal immigrants, yes, but not a full-scale invasion like we have today.

[berkelandmccarrell]

Can't we have more democrats like this that call Che Guevara shameful? Our current democrat admires Castro and Che. It's disgusting.

[Glenn666]

@berkelandmccarrell Then join a tea party

[genxdude1991]

@berkelandmccarrell I'm a democrat and I hate Castro and Che. I think the admiration towards them is misguided idealism. The idea of the people taking control. Yet Castro and Guevara were monsters.

[BamaChris]

What was with the huge circles under Mondale's eyes?

[ComedicHistorian]

@BamaChris dark circles or bags under eyes — mild swelling or puffiness under the eyes — are common as you age. With aging, the tissues around your eyes, including some of the muscles supporting your eyelids, weaken. Normal fat that helps support the eyes can then migrate forward into the lower eyelids, causing the lids to appear puffy. Fluid also may accumulate in the space below your eyes, adding to a swollen appearance. :-D think before you post please :-D

[italiankahlan]

whenever i'm feeling down, i watch reagan videos. he shows the good in the world even though he is gone i hope there is another like him.

[TeslaDRay]

Ronald Reagan owns.

I mean owned.

[saintpeeter]

Interestingly, the Democrat at the time talked about fighting Communism. Not so today......

[vccstudents]

33:00 mark was the best part! "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." I saw that with my girlfriend at the time (now former wife, happily I am remarried) who was hoping Mondale would win and told her after that remark, "SLAM DUNK! GAME OVER!"

I WAS RIGHT!

[minervx]

Before you thumb-down my post, I want to admit that I am a strong Reagan supporter and I'm not glorifying Mondale in any way. I say it objectively that this debate didn't go to well for Reagan.

He spent most of the debate being attacked by Mondale and the journalists and was unable to refute several their fallacious claims.

His closing statement exceeded the time limit and was ended prematurely mainly because of his long anecdote which could have been shortened.

[RushLimborg]

"What they will say about us, a hundred years from now, depends on how we keep...our rendezvous with destiny."

One of The Gippers best lines ever.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ronald Reagan: The Last Founding Father.

[UnionKid15]

Awesome debate, thanks so much for posting this for us to see and//or watch..!!

[TheKSE1]

Reagan was just on in this debate. Right from the start I could tell he was much more energized than the previous one.

[guitarrock4life]

in todays world the guy from NBC news would show up wearing a Walter Mondale t-shirt

[RushLimborg]

53:32-53:36--Mondale got OWNED!!!

[RushLimborg]

Mondale looks half asleep during this debate. He was much more lively during the first one....

[vccstudents]

When Reagan attacked the age issue, I lloked at my girlfriend at the time (now former wife). She was 100% in MOndale's corner and convinced Mondale would win! After Reagan's age remark, I looked at her and said, "SLAM DUNK! GAME OVER!" And it was!

Now we need to join the ROMNEY REVOLUTION and remind people NOBAMA has 1,232 DAYS TO GO!

[preving]

@vccstudents I hate to break your heart but there is a very good chance that President Obama may win re-election. It all depends on the economy and that 9.1% unemployment rate. If it starts to go down as economists are forecasting in early 2012, Obama will probably win and that's because many people like Mr.Obama as a PERSON. He actually has around 70% approval rating as a person. Remember Reagan was reelected with extremely high unemployment and about a 39% approval rating.

[titletown899004]

I really appreciate this posting. Prior to this posting, the only piece shown was the age piece. Thank you very much.

[gipper400]

I grew up during President Reagan's term and I recall how comfortable he mad me feel. He was a strong leader and a good man. When he talks about foreign policy I think "Wow how nice to have an actual adult in charge"

[CHRISTISLORD77]

I couldn't agree more! I was a little over 3 years old when Reagan was first inaugurated, so he was my "First President". Ever since he left office no one has "looked the part" as president. Reagan will always be the quintessential president to me... A REAL President!

[oldie901]

@CHRISTISLORD77 you are so right

[LedWilde]

@CHRISTISLORD77 I agree. I was almost 2 when he took office and everything you said I highly agree with. To me, it's been downhill since he left office. No other president so far since has had what Reagan had.

[mario54671]

If Reagan was our president today, that idiot in North Korea wouldn't be threatening us, because we'd have Reagan to say to him "You really wanna mess with us?"

[mthom1985]

The Dems pick some terrible candidates, and Mondale was one of them.

[RushLimborg]

Yeah--his whining about our "image" in the world sounds WAY too much like Obama....

[myasianhomie91]

Walter Mondale looks like a zombie in this video.

[plasticfern]

Reagan, please come back!!

[TheGuylanda128]

@plasticfern ZOMBIE REAGAN SMASH!!!

[Apaleutos24]

"I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience"  Hahaha! Reagan God Bless You!!! You always gonna be THE BEST!

[RushLimborg]

Yuppers!

Great moment: from 21:08 to 21:40--LOOK AT 'EM GO, tearing Mondale APART on his foreign policy "experience".

[incrediblehulkmovies]

Let's drink everytime Mondale explains the details of being a President.