Just watched part of Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra trial of John Poindexter. Reagan could not remember who General John Vessey was, even though Reagan himself appointed Vessey to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military position. Vessey served under Reagan for three years.
@calamagrostis88 Exactly, Reagan's Iran-Contra testimony was a disgrace. Every other response from him was a smirking "I can't recall," in the style of a well-coached mafioso in court. If Reagan really could not recall as much as he claimed, he was incompetent and should have been retired. If he was lying about not remembering incriminating details, he was a treasonous criminal and should have been impeached and prosecuted. It looked like a little of both. Jolly Ollie North took the fall.
who gives a fuck if he was in the early stages of alzheimers during his presidency. Us knowing that now does not change his presidency at all, he was still the greatest president this country ever knew, and he sure as hell was a better speaker than the idiot thats in office now who doesnt even know the difference between an inhaler and a breathalyzer
Again I'll say it--- you're some anonymous internet troll pretending to know more about reagan than his own family. We all knew at the time he was not quite all there now his family has confirmed it. Deal with it.
Look at the trail transcripts----reagan spent 7 hours saying "I don't remember" and "I don't recall". Like I said you can pretend you know more about reagan than his own son does if you want. Good luck with that.
@seymourbbest Having difficulty remembering specific meetings or when you were briefed on a certain subject three or four years ago is not the same as having cognitive dementia. Reagan´s Alzheimers had not advanced to that stage while he was still president. Reagan also did two LIVE interviews with Larry King in 1990 and 1991 where no sign of dementia was apparent. That doesn´t mean he didn´t experience concentration and memory lapses when he was president.
Reagan was 70 years old when elected President of America. At a time in life when these conditions, Alzheimers for one beganbecome cronic he, Reagan was given the most trying job in the world. everyone seeing the 68 debate could see that Reagan was a tired old man finding it diffeult to maintain a clear train of thought. He was not the frist President whose medical condition was hidden from the people, Wilson and Roosevelt both died in office after reelection.
My brother knew a Reagan Aide and said that during his last year in office he was starting to lose it mentally with the beginning of the disease. He said that Reagan was so out of it before speeches the aides would almost freak out. Then at the last minute Reagan would compose himself and give a good speech.
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key admirals and generals.
@awbonsai If anyone knows Reagan, then they know that he was famous for delegating authority, unlike the failed President that proceeded him. Knowing details like names does not make you a great President. It is policy and the ability to get what you want done that does, which was another reason for the failed Presidency of the President that proceeded him, but enough about the useless one, this should be about Reagan. Reagan's last news conferences show that he could think clearly.
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key Admirals and Generals.
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key Admirals and Generals.”
We all knew it now the family has admitted Reagan was ill. But you'll still see the Reaganites saying they know more about Reagan than his own son did.I don't understand the blind obsession with Reagan---he was a very mediocre president who left us with massive debts.
We all knew it now the family has admitted Reagan was ill. But you'll still see the Reaganites saying they know more about Reagan than his own son did.I don't understand the blind obsession with Reagan---he was a very mediocre president who left us with massive debts.
This is Liberal Bull shit. And his son, Ron jr, is an asshole for putting this notion in his new book about his father and giving democrats fuel to think he was an idiot.
Of course Reagan was suffering from dementia in his last few years in office. His appearances were closely controlled and he made almost no public appearances in his last 18 months in office. During Reagans last 2 years the cabinet and VP Bush ran the country.
@seymourbbest You´re talking out of your arse. During his last month in office, Reagan not only held a press conference but granted two interviews with Mike Wallace and David Brinkley. He also testified for a total of seven hours at the Poindexter trial in 1990 where he showed NO signs of dementia.
@seymourbbest In late October 1987 Reagan held a full news conference and did just as good as he always did. I have this tape, so I know it for a fact. He most likely did more of them after that, but I have none of that video, so I cannot tell you how he did. Was he the same as he was when he was 60? No he was not. How about the failure that was President before Reagan? Apparently having a fully functioning brain does not necessarily bring success.
Lets get some facts clear here. First if Reagan was senile as president as some idiots suggest on this site, then that would mean he would had to have had this disease for over 16 years. He died in June 2004. He left office in Jan 1989. Reagan was diagnosed in fall 1994. I challenge anyone to find any human who was age 70 to 78 years who lived with Alzheimer's for a min. of 16 to 24 years there after. That is what these fools are suggesting and you will not find a case.
@CtrlRm Who do you think you are fooling? LOL Reagan was not a billionaire. I can hardly type I'm laughing so hard. Reagan's net worth when he left office was between 4 to 6 million dollars. That is very modest compared to Clinton, Bush and Bush. I have not yet known a poor President to date by the way. Learn your damn history.
First on Reagan nobody would be able to give a wonderful speech in 1992, 4 years after he was out of office if they had Alzheimers. Even if you read from a teleprompter which our current OBAMA does more than any other President, you'd get confused. And as I said Reagan's doctors, his advisors and many other sources I can post will firmly deny no such problem with Reagan. He did not get diagnosed until 1994 when he wrote his letter that year. That was over 5 years after he left office.
@Marksnotebook I am a medical professional. I know how Alzheimers works. If Reagan had Alzheimers when he was in the White house in 1988 for example which was his last year in office, that would mean that he had this disease for 16 years! There are hardly any cases of Alzheimers documented on patients who lived 16 years with it at Reagan's age. I know of none.
@Marksnotebook The average longevity of a person who is diagnosed with Alzheimers from beginning to end at Reagan's age would be about 3 to 10 years maximum. Not 16 years as this moron who hates Reagan on this site is trying feebly to suggest.
@RandallFlaggNY So we have a lefty causing trouble on the Reagan site huh? You can check out any of Reagan's main people such as interviews with Casper Weinberger, George Schultz, Edwin Meese, Reagan's doctors, or anyone else who was with Reagan daily or weekly such as George H Bush, Barbara Bush, and Margaret Thatcher, my God man the list is so long of people who have done all kinds of interviews and said Reagan's mind was fine when he was in office. YOU are a pathetic piece of ...
@RandallFlaggNY Reagan is gone but his legacy lives and there is nothing you can do about that so stick that in your pot pipe and smoke it. I just can't help but gloat a bit so as to irritate you. Tomorrow you will see the biggest GOP gains since the 1920s. We are going to stop this radical Obama dead in his tracks. Also N.D., Indiana, Penn., Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nevada, Fla, will all have new republican Senators. The house may hit 70 seat gains for the GOP. :)
Kissinger: He's shallow. He's got no...he's an actor. He--When he gets a line he does it very well. He said, "Hell, people are remembered not for what they do, but for what they say. Can't you find a few good lines?" [Chuckles.] That's really an actor's approach to foreign policy--to substantive....
President Nixon: I've said a lot of good things, too, you know damn well.
@RandallFlaggNY You are really having to grasp for straws. Site your sources where those quotes came from or they mean nothing. going back to the 1970s when Reagan was in office in the 80s? LOL Oh good lord. Site sources or you're a fool
@Marksnotebook You were correct about yesterday. And now let's start thinking about 2012 to continue the "correction" of our misguided path that begun in 2008.
@TheUsman2000 I know my politics and how people feel. We want to keep our precious freedoms. We don't want this radical Obama agenda. And if the dead can see what is going on in America, and I have no idea if they can or not, but if so, President Reagan would be proud of the Nov 2 Elections and he'd say that the people always get it right when they understand the issues. Well, we won one more for the Gipper and we'll not going to let him down in 2012, either. I love that man.
@Marksnotebook I know my politics also... And I would like to believe that Ronald Reagan IS seeing the work and interest in our Country from the likes of you and I and a great proportion of our Country. This man gave His heart and soul for the better of the USA, and my only question / hope is where is His predecessor.
@RandallFlaggNY I don't think you get it. I'm not arguing with you as you know nothing about Reagan or his history or for that matter I might as well call you a damn fool so just do as Reagan use to say to one of those silly hecklers...........AW SHUT UP. lol
@RandallFlaggNY The other thing is this: I saw and videotaped the 1992 Republican national convention when Reagan spoke at it. He gave one of his finest speeches at this convention. And I cannot help but mention that we the people are going to take a cue from Reagan tomorrow and vote conservative. The GOP will once again take the house with 60 plus seats and Senate with 9 to 11 seats for the GOP gains. And don't forget the Gov. races where we will gain 6 to 10 seats. ha! Its our day.
@RandallFlaggNY anyone can flag a comment as spam, you probably did it yourself. ive got a question for you...why are you on this same video day in and day out arguing with people about reagan and alzheimers? is this video, the fact that reagan had alzheimers, and arguing with people all you have in life? youve been emailing me for the past year, every month or so, asking me(as if to mock me) to tell you a war story. you seem thrilled i finally responded...but really youre coming off as pathetic
@nutsack666 Well, you responded. But you didn't tell me a war story. You sure talk tough for a chickenhawk. A Yahoo keyboard commando and leftover Bushbot. Go enlist and some might show you more respect when you talk tough. Check out the Operation Yellow Elephant web site.
Oh yes, another thing. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation go a long way to helping your arguments.
@RandallFlaggNY im not going to re-enlist, ive already served bud. my grammar is just fine as long as you can understand what im saying. and im guessing the points i made in my last post were valid enough considering all you did was make a pathetic attempt to insult me and regurgitate some of the names liberals like to use. and im the keyboard commando? dude all you do is argue with people on the same video day after day. you are dismissed son. you can respond back but i wont be reading it. thx.
I declare victory. I am the Master of the Field. I own the battlefield. I vanquished you!!!!
You must have had French Army training, as you right-wingers say. Drop rifle, raise hands.
You should re-up. When you get in-country in the 'Stan the Taliban soldiers will drop their weapons and scream "Nutsack is here! WE ARE DEADMAN!!!" I'm sure you would make a name for yourself.
@RandallFlaggNY YOU are un-American. How could YOU have the audacity to attempt to "trash" one of my Countries soldiers??? Hey nutsack thank you for Your service to OUR Country! Nutsack thank you again and understand you have the majority of support in OUR Country.... It is due to Men like you fighting our battles that putz like randallflaggy can sit in their bedroom and throw barbs.
@TheUsman2000 My dad pulled 30 missions over Germany. Worked his way up to an Asst. Lead Navigator on his later raids. But he never much talked about it. Or talked "tough" either.
Nor did he ever question anyone's loyalty.
He had quiet contempt for chickenhawks though.
He was a Harvard Law Grad and a Republican. A Rockefeller Republican, not one of these Chickenhawk Republicans today.
@RandallFlaggNY First off... If true, your dad would be among the category of our great Americans, but he raised an absolute putz of a son. I was tired of "talking" with you months ago, and have zero desire to "attempt" to carry on a conversation with the likes of you. If your left wing, communist, socialist mind does not get the understanding of my reply let me spell it out for you... GFYS
@rivalyeah Reagan was not senile at all when he was President. See my posts on this topic. These people are just trying so desperately to ruin this great Presidents greatness but it will not work as he is higher now in the polls than ever before. He is ranked in the 10 best Presidents now. Some historians are ranking him 3 and 5th place now. Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington being the first 3.
Opens secret? It was obvious. I was 16 at the beginning of Reagan's 2nd Term, and obviously not a medical professional then. It was clear to me even then that he had early dementia (Alzheimer's).
He's remembered as one of the greatest american presidents because great things happened during his presidency. But given his clear cognitive impairment it was his advisors that should get the credit - he was a puppet president only...
@78wilpwr I am a medical professional and I can assure you Reagan did not have any type of senility at any point in his Presidency. There are no documented cases of a man Reagan's age living a totally productive life and having senility for 16 or more years. Reagan was President from 1981 to Jan 20, 1989. He died in 2004. By your assumption he would had to have this disease for over 16 years, perhaps 24 years as you seem to suggest. You are unwise to continue this discussion.
@RandallFlaggNY I was also around in the 1980s. I met Ronald Reagan while I was in college. This senility story was passed around by a few left wingers as they hated Reagan to the core. They were just as mean back then as they are today except not so vocal as it has gotten worse. Reagan just had a way of knocking the lefties off their bases and the public loved it. He was loved by many and left the office of the Presidency in 1989 with a 65 percent approval rating.
@RandallFlaggNY As I informed you about senility its impossible to prove one case such as compared to Reagan's when a man would be past 70 years of age, then get senile and live productively for 23 more years. You cannot find a documented case of anyone who had this disease for this many years at this age.
Between the Max Factor rouge, the padded suits, that ridiculous dead squirrel sitting on his head, and the stilted bad actor mannerisms, it's no wonder Reagan has become the hero of the stupidest in America.
@Robohump Obama has observed that the Reagan presidency fundamentally changed the course of American politics. That's not necessarily praise. Re that ridiculous dead animal on Reagan's head: if you want to believe that a withered, droopy old man had a thick growth of lustrous dark hair and an even square hairline well into his 70s and 80s, well, whatever delusion gets you hard is your business ...
@bc9021010001 You need to pay more attention, my friend. Obama on Reagan:"...there is no denying his leadership in the world, or his gift for communicating his vision for America.", "...he understood that it is always 'Morning in America'. That was his gift and we remain forever grateful.", ...(Reagan had a) unique ability to inspire others to greatness." He's also admitted to reading Reagan biographies regularly. And Mike Walla (60 minutes) is 92 and has a full head of hair. You are delusional.
@Robohump You can interpret your scattered, cherry-picked fragments as praise, Sparky, if it gets you hard. If it gets you harder, you can also believe a 93-year-old geezer has the same hair color and hairline he had as a 20-year-old. Far be it from me to disturb your fapping fantasies. Btw, it's not Mike Walla. It's Mike Walla Walla. And I suppose you think Mike Walla Walla's hair is natural too, right Sparky?
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@bc9021010001 Interpretation has nothing to do with it. Praise is praise. The word 'praise' is very clearly defined and is not open to intepretation. Obama has praised Reagan. This is a definitive statement. It's fact. You don't get to agree or disagree. It just is what it is.
Regarding his hair, his last known photo's showed a receeding hairline and it had also greyed. He didn;'t wear a wig for fucks sake. Get real.
Reagan's overall approval ratings were below Clinton's and not even close to people like JFK or even LBJ.
And yeah he did change politics for the worse, thanks to Reagan illegal union firings went off the spectrum because his administration decided not to enforce the law, leading to the demise of private sector unions in the US.
@theBOURN3idiot The truth will set you free. What is this "America" you speak of? Corporate colonial empire wielding worthless currency, with a death squad military enforcing its rule worldwide including among its gullible slave citizens? Wake up, knob.
@mazakman1957 Oh yeah, men in their 70s and 80s quite naturally have thick chestnut hair and a low, square hairline. Yup uh huh happens all the time. No it's not incredibly naive to believe that no not at all ...
This Man won the cold war. He presented himself in a way that made me proud to be an American every day he served. Everything this Man did was for the better of our country. To attempt to cast a cloud on this great American is to desecrate his soul. Dr sanjay.... GFYS.
@TheUsman2000 Won the cold war? Please. When will that propaganda end. The Soviet Union was coming apart long before Raygun showed up. Do a little research, perhaps watch "How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin."
Stop spouting talking points you got from some talking head.
@RandallFlaggNY You heard me correct, "won the cold war". I lived through it, stop trying to rewrite history. I remember when carter was in office. USSR warships off our coast, hostages being taken in Iran and the US appearing weak. The day Reagan was inaugurated the remaining 52 hostages were released (look it up). The USSR was kept in check while Reagan was in office, and he set in motion the ultimate demise of the USSR. Get your head on straight, and stop trying to rewrite history.
@TheUsman2000 Oh....the errors. Let's go through them...
"Won the cold war." Well, not really. The USSR was breaking down long before the raygun showed up. You'd be hard pressed to find any Russian to say Reagan killed communism. Go watch "How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin."
"USSR warships off our coast." Yeah, so? We were off theirs.
The day Reagan was inaugurated the remaining 52 hostages were released (look it up). Ah... I love this one... (con't)
@RandallFlaggNY Rumors persist to this day that Reagan cut a deal with the Ayatollah to prevent President Carter from obtaining the hostages release. A charge, that VP candidate George Bush traveled over a weekend on a private jet to Paris to meet with rep's of the Ayatollah at the King George V hotel.
Daddy Bush has never given incontrovertible evidence that he was in the U.S. on the weekend in question.
@RandallFlaggNY ... they cut a deal with the Ayatollah to provide arms and money for a delayed hostage release.
Such a deal is quite literally Treason. Yes, Treason. A much abused word these days.
You are aware of the October Surprise story? Considering the Iran/Contra scandal it's not hard to imagine Raygun & Co. were willing to dirty deal to win the Presidency.
You will say that the O.S. was never proved. True, but it was never dis-proven, either.
@RandallFlaggNY You are un-American. You look at the facts and then you derive "your " perspective based on hearsay lol. Go ahead and try to rewrite history, but I lived through the Reagan years and this Great American did more for our Country than ANY other President going back to "our" great forefathers. And by the way, the Contra thing? Ask yourself one question... Did He do it for himself or the better of OUR Country? Different perspective from what we get from obama hu?
Raygun was a shill for the military-industrial complex. The decline of the middle class began with Dutch.
It amazes me that so many right wingers that post here support tax policies that screw the middle class. Someone should offer to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.
Don't think it kicked in until after he was out of office. I think the opposition wants to convince you he had it the whole time in office. Bullshit. I miss Reagan.
Sure he had it while president. It was pretty obvious. How he became known as "The Great Communicator" is beyond me. He was a half rate actor and a half rate president.
By this yardstick, I'd say Mrs. Palin has already suffered stultifying attrition of her brains. In any case, Reagan's ultimate mental deterioration was a fitting garnish for his life-long academic incompetence.It's shameless sentimentality for us to regard Mr.Reagan as a Presidential hero of the likes of FDR or Lincoln. The man simply had a flair for publicity and B-grade hollywood feature films. Nevertheless,RIP Mr.Reagan
@WhenLilacsLast Thanks for giving me a good laugh. FDR a presidential hero?Ha Ha Ha. Switch that around and say Lincoln and Reagan were presidential heroes and you will be correct.
@RandallFlaggNY There you go, using a tired old liberal trick...LIE about what I said, even while my words are PLAINLY VISIBLE, in order to twist it inside your liberal little mind, which makes it truth to you & others afflicted with the disease of liberalism.
I admitted NOTHING! Reread it S l o w l y... I said "Even IF he did". I KNOW he didn't during his terms. I was making the point that the liberals who fought tooth & nail against his magnificent strategy were WORSE than senile at best!!
Hey! I know that place @ UCI. Anyways, isnt that kind of a slap in the face of democrats? Their most hated and successful political opponent accomplished what he did with a little bit of Alzeihmers?
AMEN to that! Liberals are always saying stupid stuff that is so telling...like Nancy Pelosi saying there should be an investigation into "Whoever is funding those who disagree with [president] obama". I hope they don't spend millions doing that, I can tell her straight out - I HAVE A JOB, Nancy! SO DO MILLIONS OF OTHER SENSIBLE AMERICANS!!
Liberal democrats (I am gong to quit using both terms, they are just idiotic liberals) think that all Americans are as stupid as they are!
My political views aside, it does not take a genius to figure out that President Reagan was in the early stages of Alzheimer's during as least part of his presidency. My gosh, remember his 2nd term? Couldn't remember anything, looked so absent-minded, falling asleep at a dinner with Mikhail Gorbachev....yeah, he had it.
I tend to disagree with the analysis based on my laymen understanding of alzheimers. The disease hits quick and to say he had the disease 10 years prior to the diagnosis makes me want to research the matter further.
The Reagan legacy is mixed at best. He'll go down in history as a high mid-tier president once history gets through with him. He is by no means a great president. Iran-Contra was a criminal conspriacy and he rightfully should have been impeached.
You know nothing about history if you are saying Reagan's results were mixed at best. Reagan was the best president since Lincoln. Even then, I'd vote for Reagan.
@Kickingit06 Wow! Best since Lincoln. What did you like best, the crippling budget deficits he left in his wake or the dealing with Iran for hostages and then supplying the Contra's with assistance despite a law banning such aid?
Boo f'ing hoo, Reagan allegedly went through some backdoor channels to save American hostages. What an f'ing terrible president. And there was nothing crippling about the 80's. GDP rose more than any other time in American history. Learn your f'ing facts and stop hating. Reagan believed in prosperity and independence. Your Obama believes in insititutionalism, beauracracy and a soup kitchen state.
@Kickingit06 If what you're saying is true, why did the federal government grow more during the 8 years Reagan was in office than it did during the previous 200+ years of our country's history? The economy was strong towards the end of his presidency because of the deficits he ran up for his defense build-up. And before you say it was a Democrats' fault, please remember the Republican controlled the Senate for the first 6 years of the Reagan presidency.
FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society - Reagan is very well known for his limited government doctrine. I think you should learn a bit more of history. But if you have some sort of link or something that you can show me what you mean then I'd like to look at it by the numbers.
@Kickingit06 Reagan did go through backdoor channels negotiating with Iran, which was against the law. The 80's were the beginning of this current economic depression we are in. Reagan's free trade polices and deregulation are the main sources to our current woes. Sorry, but that is the fact.
@cracks21229 I don't know what's worse. You're lack of knowledge of history or economics. 1. Reagan was never substantially connected as having knowledge in the Iran Contra Affair. 2. It was a small potatoes deal that the media pretends is some huge scandal 3. FDR smuggled weapons in WWII when the USA was supposedly neutral. I somehow doubt you're even applying your own standard equally - Typical Lib - And by lib I'm not castrating all of the philosophies rather I am associating the character..
@cracks21229 character of the people of your movement. 4. There are various economic factors that were great under Reagan (which starkly contrasted Carter so learn some history). GDP, Housing, Employment, Technology, The End of the cold war helping for the world econom to boom in the 90's. Learn your facts and your history flunky. I shouldn't even be responding to your ignorance.
@stafflvr bullshit. Because the soviet collapsed on Reagan's watch was coincidental at best....they were heading that way since the 1920s and everyone knew it. Read Nixons "The Real War"
Indeedly. instead of working delivery at Joe's Bongo-Potatoe Chips, we had to buy a truck from Joe and take on all the responsibilities thereof ourselves. Fewer guys could do this so Joe cut back biggie on employees and all those side costs. Territories expanded hugely and the torpedo effect against the working man just kept mushrooming. Thanxx, Ronnie.
Reagan did not have any memory problems when in the White House. People were trying to say he was too old to run for President at age 70 already. Its another liberal hatred that resonates with those who want to hate Reagan. Nobody watched Reagan more closely than me as far as ordinary Americans. I never once saw him act as though he was confused. Although being in DC is confusing even for the best of minds since it is full of nutcases!
I'd take a Reagan with the possibility of Alzheimers than an Obama who knows exactly what he is doing in systematically destroying this great country - Reagan, Alzheimers or not, is rolling over in his grave with the socialist policies and agenda Obama and his cohorts in Congress are putting into place.
Let me tell you: I met Reagan in 1991, when he addressed a group of 300 and took questions for an hour. I remember thinking, "wow, I hope I'm half as sharp as this guy when I'm that age".
A 10-year diagnosis of Alzheimers that took him immediately out of the public? C'mon, give me a break! The Alzheimers diagnosis was just a convenient way to shut him away from the press and the juducial system, and, like William Casey, he never, ever had to answer one word about Iran Contra or arms sales.
This is a liberal new company trying to make Reagan look bad. If Reagan had alzheimer's then Obama has it also. He repeats himself and says um, um, um a lot...oh wait that's just how he is when someone does not tell him what to say. lol
You were what..4 years old when he was president? You don't know CRAP about what was happening then. Yes, He was responsible for many people becoming millionaires, but that was a good thing - Millionaires EMPLOY people! How many people will lose their jobs after Obama gets done robbing the rich?
MILLIONS!! But that will make liberals like you happy because America will be suffering, and all liberals despise America and people who become rich by EARNING it instead of STEALING!
First, I hate politics. I think that it's a puppet show with corporate puppetmasters.
BUT I lean Democratic.
Now, anyone who claims that Reagan had Alzheimer's disease during 1984 is an utter moron who knows nothing about the disease. The timeline of Alzheimer's disease is fairly consistent. Someone who has it survives 10 years. The longest known case I've heard is 15 years. 20 years? Almost impossible-- especially when you consider that he would been in stage one for more than ten years.
@Idi0cracy I remember news reports late in Ronnie's 2nd term hinting every so slightly that Ronnie Ray-gun was "detached" from the proceeding around him, or "aloof."
Reagon was an old man! HELLO of course he's going to bable and forget stuff. Now I understand he suffered from Alzheimer's but he was still just plain OLD!
No, it doesn't say much about the American public, just like electing Cheney/bush twice does. Easily led, and often not able to make informed decisions. It as all the more important that critical thinking be a major part of school curriculum from the earliest grades.
People were saying he was senile throughout his whole presidency... no big shock here...
DeepSouthWrestling1 6 months ago
Could switching to GEICO really save you 15 percent or more on car insurance? Did Ronald Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was President?
As the old saying goes, "Is the Pope Catholic? "
UncleMikeNJ 8 months ago 2
If repeating yourself and hesitating means you have Alzheimer's, then I respectfully submit that Obama has a terminal case
buyfarmfresheggs 10 months ago
I admire Reagan but think he did have alzheimers.
bluejay02920 11 months ago
Just watched part of Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra trial of John Poindexter. Reagan could not remember who General John Vessey was, even though Reagan himself appointed Vessey to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military position. Vessey served under Reagan for three years.
calamagrostis88 1 year ago 8
@calamagrostis88 Exactly, Reagan's Iran-Contra testimony was a disgrace. Every other response from him was a smirking "I can't recall," in the style of a well-coached mafioso in court. If Reagan really could not recall as much as he claimed, he was incompetent and should have been retired. If he was lying about not remembering incriminating details, he was a treasonous criminal and should have been impeached and prosecuted. It looked like a little of both. Jolly Ollie North took the fall.
bc9021010001 11 months ago 4
Nobody said anything during his second term about this being a problem. Wow! Look! A Democrat voter with Dr. Gupta don't like Ronald Reagan!
ocdave99 1 year ago
@ocdave99 I quite clearly remember the press discussing it in coded terms such as "He's detached."
RandallFlaggNY 4 months ago
You're lying. michael reagan recently admitted it. It was all over the news. Do you really think no one heard it and your lie will work?
seymourbbest 1 year ago
Let's see Reagans own son said he showed signs of mental changes in 84. Some anonymous internet troll says not......hum......who am I to believe?
seymourbbest 1 year ago
who gives a fuck if he was in the early stages of alzheimers during his presidency. Us knowing that now does not change his presidency at all, he was still the greatest president this country ever knew, and he sure as hell was a better speaker than the idiot thats in office now who doesnt even know the difference between an inhaler and a breathalyzer
basketballion 1 year ago
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aspie25 1 year ago
Again I'll say it--- you're some anonymous internet troll pretending to know more about reagan than his own family. We all knew at the time he was not quite all there now his family has confirmed it. Deal with it.
seymourbbest 1 year ago
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aspie25 1 year ago
@seymourbbest He confirmed no such thing. His son said he saw no sign of DEMENTIA when he was in office. Deal with that, troll!
aspie25 1 year ago
Look at the trail transcripts----reagan spent 7 hours saying "I don't remember" and "I don't recall". Like I said you can pretend you know more about reagan than his own son does if you want. Good luck with that.
seymourbbest 1 year ago
@seymourbbest Having difficulty remembering specific meetings or when you were briefed on a certain subject three or four years ago is not the same as having cognitive dementia. Reagan´s Alzheimers had not advanced to that stage while he was still president. Reagan also did two LIVE interviews with Larry King in 1990 and 1991 where no sign of dementia was apparent. That doesn´t mean he didn´t experience concentration and memory lapses when he was president.
aspie25 1 year ago
Reagan was 70 years old when elected President of America. At a time in life when these conditions, Alzheimers for one beganbecome cronic he, Reagan was given the most trying job in the world. everyone seeing the 68 debate could see that Reagan was a tired old man finding it diffeult to maintain a clear train of thought. He was not the frist President whose medical condition was hidden from the people, Wilson and Roosevelt both died in office after reelection.
au33987 1 year ago
@au33987 so true, so true.
alpop850 1 year ago
Reagan was a liberal democrat that loved FDR until he made a deal with the devil and became an FBI informant.
Reagan did a lot to help destroy America
themeaningoflife38 1 year ago
My brother knew a Reagan Aide and said that during his last year in office he was starting to lose it mentally with the beginning of the disease. He said that Reagan was so out of it before speeches the aides would almost freak out. Then at the last minute Reagan would compose himself and give a good speech.
redmustang03 1 year ago 3
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key admirals and generals.
awbonsai 1 year ago
@awbonsai If anyone knows Reagan, then they know that he was famous for delegating authority, unlike the failed President that proceeded him. Knowing details like names does not make you a great President. It is policy and the ability to get what you want done that does, which was another reason for the failed Presidency of the President that proceeded him, but enough about the useless one, this should be about Reagan. Reagan's last news conferences show that he could think clearly.
jbranstetter04 1 year ago
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key Admirals and Generals.
awbonsai 1 year ago
There was quite a change beginning with the attempted assassination of Reagan in his first term.
Gobachev diplomatically made note of it with his comment that Reagan kept repeating himself with the "doveryai, no proveryai" (trust but verify) catchphrase.
And lots of people noticed his radical changes during Reagan's testimony during the Iran-Contra hearings when he couldn't remember the names of his key Admirals and Generals.”
awbonsai 1 year ago
We all knew it now the family has admitted Reagan was ill. But you'll still see the Reaganites saying they know more about Reagan than his own son did.I don't understand the blind obsession with Reagan---he was a very mediocre president who left us with massive debts.
seymourbbest 1 year ago 2
We all knew it now the family has admitted Reagan was ill. But you'll still see the Reaganites saying they know more about Reagan than his own son did.I don't understand the blind obsession with Reagan---he was a very mediocre president who left us with massive debts.
seymourbbest 1 year ago 2
This is Liberal Bull shit. And his son, Ron jr, is an asshole for putting this notion in his new book about his father and giving democrats fuel to think he was an idiot.
incrediblehulkmovies 1 year ago
Senile, absolutely.
1stTrillionaire 1 year ago 5
This is not a PROOF of alzheimer's... if you use those images to prove that he has alzhaimer i can prove that OBAMA have alzhaimer too!
If he really have alzhaimer's during his 8 years in white house we must congratulate him cuz he was the best president of USA in 20 century!
Zmurex 1 year ago
Of course Reagan was suffering from dementia in his last few years in office. His appearances were closely controlled and he made almost no public appearances in his last 18 months in office. During Reagans last 2 years the cabinet and VP Bush ran the country.
seymourbbest 1 year ago 2
@seymourbbest You´re talking out of your arse. During his last month in office, Reagan not only held a press conference but granted two interviews with Mike Wallace and David Brinkley. He also testified for a total of seven hours at the Poindexter trial in 1990 where he showed NO signs of dementia.
aspie25 1 year ago
@seymourbbest In late October 1987 Reagan held a full news conference and did just as good as he always did. I have this tape, so I know it for a fact. He most likely did more of them after that, but I have none of that video, so I cannot tell you how he did. Was he the same as he was when he was 60? No he was not. How about the failure that was President before Reagan? Apparently having a fully functioning brain does not necessarily bring success.
jbranstetter04 1 year ago
For crimes against humanity...........We hope this asshole burns in hell for an eternity..AMEN
TOLTECAAZTECA 1 year ago
Lets get some facts clear here. First if Reagan was senile as president as some idiots suggest on this site, then that would mean he would had to have had this disease for over 16 years. He died in June 2004. He left office in Jan 1989. Reagan was diagnosed in fall 1994. I challenge anyone to find any human who was age 70 to 78 years who lived with Alzheimer's for a min. of 16 to 24 years there after. That is what these fools are suggesting and you will not find a case.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago 4
@Marksnotebook He was a President and a billionaire, he had better health care than any of us could imagine.
CtrlRm 1 year ago
@CtrlRm Who do you think you are fooling? LOL Reagan was not a billionaire. I can hardly type I'm laughing so hard. Reagan's net worth when he left office was between 4 to 6 million dollars. That is very modest compared to Clinton, Bush and Bush. I have not yet known a poor President to date by the way. Learn your damn history.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
First on Reagan nobody would be able to give a wonderful speech in 1992, 4 years after he was out of office if they had Alzheimers. Even if you read from a teleprompter which our current OBAMA does more than any other President, you'd get confused. And as I said Reagan's doctors, his advisors and many other sources I can post will firmly deny no such problem with Reagan. He did not get diagnosed until 1994 when he wrote his letter that year. That was over 5 years after he left office.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook I am a medical professional. I know how Alzheimers works. If Reagan had Alzheimers when he was in the White house in 1988 for example which was his last year in office, that would mean that he had this disease for 16 years! There are hardly any cases of Alzheimers documented on patients who lived 16 years with it at Reagan's age. I know of none.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook The average longevity of a person who is diagnosed with Alzheimers from beginning to end at Reagan's age would be about 3 to 10 years maximum. Not 16 years as this moron who hates Reagan on this site is trying feebly to suggest.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook I'll fully explain how Alzheimers works later.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook It will be interesting...
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook (crickets chirping.....)
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook Should be interesting.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
Better a slightly impaired man with strong, patriotic principles than a sharp man with none.
rivalyeah 1 year ago
@rivalyeah Raygun was a doddering shill for the military industrial complex.
You should read of Adm. Rickover's fight with P. Takis Veliotis, and why the taxpayer should not fund shoddy contractor work.
Rickover told it plain to Raygun's face, and Ronnie just blinked.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY So we have a lefty causing trouble on the Reagan site huh? You can check out any of Reagan's main people such as interviews with Casper Weinberger, George Schultz, Edwin Meese, Reagan's doctors, or anyone else who was with Reagan daily or weekly such as George H Bush, Barbara Bush, and Margaret Thatcher, my God man the list is so long of people who have done all kinds of interviews and said Reagan's mind was fine when he was in office. YOU are a pathetic piece of ...
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook Yep, causing trouble. Not impressed by you in the slightest.
OK, let's now take apart your arguments and analyze them...
All those interviews with Raygun cronies talking about their friend are irrelevant. Those fawning anecdotal stories are worthless.
OK, next argument.....Well....that's it then.
Next!
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY Reagan is gone but his legacy lives and there is nothing you can do about that so stick that in your pot pipe and smoke it. I just can't help but gloat a bit so as to irritate you. Tomorrow you will see the biggest GOP gains since the 1920s. We are going to stop this radical Obama dead in his tracks. Also N.D., Indiana, Penn., Ohio, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nevada, Fla, will all have new republican Senators. The house may hit 70 seat gains for the GOP. :)
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook
From the Nixon White House tapes..
President Nixon: What's your evaluation of Reagan after meeting him several times now.
Kissinger: Well, I think he's a--actually I think he's a pretty decent guy.
President Nixon: Oh, decent, no question, but his brains
Kissinger: Well, his brains, are negligible. I...
President Nixon: He's really pretty shallow, Henry. (con't..)
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY
Kissinger: He's shallow. He's got no...he's an actor. He--When he gets a line he does it very well. He said, "Hell, people are remembered not for what they do, but for what they say. Can't you find a few good lines?" [Chuckles.] That's really an actor's approach to foreign policy--to substantive....
President Nixon: I've said a lot of good things, too, you know damn well.
Kissinger: Well, that too...
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago 2
@RandallFlaggNY You are really having to grasp for straws. Site your sources where those quotes came from or they mean nothing. going back to the 1970s when Reagan was in office in the 80s? LOL Oh good lord. Site sources or you're a fool
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
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@Marksnotebook They are from the Nixon White House Tapes.
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RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook You were correct about yesterday. And now let's start thinking about 2012 to continue the "correction" of our misguided path that begun in 2008.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 I know my politics and how people feel. We want to keep our precious freedoms. We don't want this radical Obama agenda. And if the dead can see what is going on in America, and I have no idea if they can or not, but if so, President Reagan would be proud of the Nov 2 Elections and he'd say that the people always get it right when they understand the issues. Well, we won one more for the Gipper and we'll not going to let him down in 2012, either. I love that man.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook I know my politics also... And I would like to believe that Ronald Reagan IS seeing the work and interest in our Country from the likes of you and I and a great proportion of our Country. This man gave His heart and soul for the better of the USA, and my only question / hope is where is His predecessor.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY I don't think you get it. I'm not arguing with you as you know nothing about Reagan or his history or for that matter I might as well call you a damn fool so just do as Reagan use to say to one of those silly hecklers...........AW SHUT UP. lol
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook Thank you for enlightening me about raygun.
Gosh, I didn't know so much! How did I get by for the past 30 years?
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook LOL, and God bless his soul.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY The other thing is this: I saw and videotaped the 1992 Republican national convention when Reagan spoke at it. He gave one of his finest speeches at this convention. And I cannot help but mention that we the people are going to take a cue from Reagan tomorrow and vote conservative. The GOP will once again take the house with 60 plus seats and Senate with 9 to 11 seats for the GOP gains. And don't forget the Gov. races where we will gain 6 to 10 seats. ha! Its our day.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook He delivered a prepared speach. Did he engage in any debate with an unfriendly person? Doubt it.
Again, your arguments are sophistry.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
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@RandallFlaggNY you are a sociopath. you need to see a doctor. they will give you meds.
nutsack666 1 year ago
@nutsack666 Hey nut, looks like your put-down got flagged as spam.
Don't people like you?
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY anyone can flag a comment as spam, you probably did it yourself. ive got a question for you...why are you on this same video day in and day out arguing with people about reagan and alzheimers? is this video, the fact that reagan had alzheimers, and arguing with people all you have in life? youve been emailing me for the past year, every month or so, asking me(as if to mock me) to tell you a war story. you seem thrilled i finally responded...but really youre coming off as pathetic
nutsack666 1 year ago
@nutsack666 Well, you responded. But you didn't tell me a war story. You sure talk tough for a chickenhawk. A Yahoo keyboard commando and leftover Bushbot. Go enlist and some might show you more respect when you talk tough. Check out the Operation Yellow Elephant web site.
Oh yes, another thing. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation go a long way to helping your arguments.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY im not going to re-enlist, ive already served bud. my grammar is just fine as long as you can understand what im saying. and im guessing the points i made in my last post were valid enough considering all you did was make a pathetic attempt to insult me and regurgitate some of the names liberals like to use. and im the keyboard commando? dude all you do is argue with people on the same video day after day. you are dismissed son. you can respond back but i wont be reading it. thx.
nutsack666 1 year ago
@nutsack666 If you ignore me then I have won.
I declare victory. I am the Master of the Field. I own the battlefield. I vanquished you!!!!
You must have had French Army training, as you right-wingers say. Drop rifle, raise hands.
You should re-up. When you get in-country in the 'Stan the Taliban soldiers will drop their weapons and scream "Nutsack is here! WE ARE DEADMAN!!!" I'm sure you would make a name for yourself.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY YOU are un-American. How could YOU have the audacity to attempt to "trash" one of my Countries soldiers??? Hey nutsack thank you for Your service to OUR Country! Nutsack thank you again and understand you have the majority of support in OUR Country.... It is due to Men like you fighting our battles that putz like randallflaggy can sit in their bedroom and throw barbs.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Tell us a war story, tough guy.
Nuts sure can't.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago 2
@TheUsman2000 My dad pulled 30 missions over Germany. Worked his way up to an Asst. Lead Navigator on his later raids. But he never much talked about it. Or talked "tough" either.
Nor did he ever question anyone's loyalty.
He had quiet contempt for chickenhawks though.
He was a Harvard Law Grad and a Republican. A Rockefeller Republican, not one of these Chickenhawk Republicans today.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY First off... If true, your dad would be among the category of our great Americans, but he raised an absolute putz of a son. I was tired of "talking" with you months ago, and have zero desire to "attempt" to carry on a conversation with the likes of you. If your left wing, communist, socialist mind does not get the understanding of my reply let me spell it out for you... GFYS
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Sorry, I get bored and antagonize you. It's good for a laugh.
W.F.B. Jr. you ain't.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
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RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Tell us a war story, USman.
I'm bored and need a laugh.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Hey UsMan, I'm still here? Looks like you ran away...
RandallFlaggNY 4 months ago
@nutsack666 Nut, looks like I kicked your ass.
Get your knee pads on.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@rivalyeah Reagan was not senile at all when he was President. See my posts on this topic. These people are just trying so desperately to ruin this great Presidents greatness but it will not work as he is higher now in the polls than ever before. He is ranked in the 10 best Presidents now. Some historians are ranking him 3 and 5th place now. Jefferson, Lincoln, Washington being the first 3.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
LOL...... I would take Regan with Alzheimer's Disease over Obama any day
txjgb 1 year ago
@txjgb I've got a bridge for you, it's a good deal....
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@txjgb I've got a good deal on a bridge. You interested?
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
I was around in the 80's, and it was an open secret that Reagan was senile.
My neighbor, a Psychiatrist, saw the senility described in this video as it was happening. He kept his own diagnosis to himself.
I don't doubt that many mental health care professionals privately came to the same private conclusion.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY
Opens secret? It was obvious. I was 16 at the beginning of Reagan's 2nd Term, and obviously not a medical professional then. It was clear to me even then that he had early dementia (Alzheimer's).
He's remembered as one of the greatest american presidents because great things happened during his presidency. But given his clear cognitive impairment it was his advisors that should get the credit - he was a puppet president only...
78wilpwr 1 year ago
@78wilpwr I am a medical professional and I can assure you Reagan did not have any type of senility at any point in his Presidency. There are no documented cases of a man Reagan's age living a totally productive life and having senility for 16 or more years. Reagan was President from 1981 to Jan 20, 1989. He died in 2004. By your assumption he would had to have this disease for over 16 years, perhaps 24 years as you seem to suggest. You are unwise to continue this discussion.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY I was also around in the 1980s. I met Ronald Reagan while I was in college. This senility story was passed around by a few left wingers as they hated Reagan to the core. They were just as mean back then as they are today except not so vocal as it has gotten worse. Reagan just had a way of knocking the lefties off their bases and the public loved it. He was loved by many and left the office of the Presidency in 1989 with a 65 percent approval rating.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY As I informed you about senility its impossible to prove one case such as compared to Reagan's when a man would be past 70 years of age, then get senile and live productively for 23 more years. You cannot find a documented case of anyone who had this disease for this many years at this age.
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
Between the Max Factor rouge, the padded suits, that ridiculous dead squirrel sitting on his head, and the stilted bad actor mannerisms, it's no wonder Reagan has become the hero of the stupidest in America.
bc9021010001 1 year ago 29
@bc9021010001 Obama praises him, so I guess you're right.
Robohump 1 year ago
@Robohump Obama has observed that the Reagan presidency fundamentally changed the course of American politics. That's not necessarily praise. Re that ridiculous dead animal on Reagan's head: if you want to believe that a withered, droopy old man had a thick growth of lustrous dark hair and an even square hairline well into his 70s and 80s, well, whatever delusion gets you hard is your business ...
bc9021010001 1 year ago 19
@bc9021010001 You need to pay more attention, my friend. Obama on Reagan:"...there is no denying his leadership in the world, or his gift for communicating his vision for America.", "...he understood that it is always 'Morning in America'. That was his gift and we remain forever grateful.", ...(Reagan had a) unique ability to inspire others to greatness." He's also admitted to reading Reagan biographies regularly. And Mike Walla (60 minutes) is 92 and has a full head of hair. You are delusional.
Robohump 11 months ago
@Robohump You can interpret your scattered, cherry-picked fragments as praise, Sparky, if it gets you hard. If it gets you harder, you can also believe a 93-year-old geezer has the same hair color and hairline he had as a 20-year-old. Far be it from me to disturb your fapping fantasies. Btw, it's not Mike Walla. It's Mike Walla Walla. And I suppose you think Mike Walla Walla's hair is natural too, right Sparky?
bc9021010001 11 months ago 11
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@bc9021010001 Interpretation has nothing to do with it. Praise is praise. The word 'praise' is very clearly defined and is not open to intepretation. Obama has praised Reagan. This is a definitive statement. It's fact. You don't get to agree or disagree. It just is what it is.
Regarding his hair, his last known photo's showed a receeding hairline and it had also greyed. He didn;'t wear a wig for fucks sake. Get real.
Robohump 11 months ago
@Robohump Rational people rely on interpretation. Mythomaniacs not so much. You must be a happy man, Sparky.
bc9021010001 11 months ago 6
@Robohump Don't refer to me as "my friend." I would never be friends with somebody calling herself "robohump."
bc9021010001 11 months ago 4
@bc9021010001
Reagan's overall approval ratings were below Clinton's and not even close to people like JFK or even LBJ.
And yeah he did change politics for the worse, thanks to Reagan illegal union firings went off the spectrum because his administration decided not to enforce the law, leading to the demise of private sector unions in the US.
AndroidPolitician 7 months ago 2
@bc9021010001 I tells you a lot about the man that he repeatedly claimed he never died his hair.
Perfectchi 1 month ago
@bc9021010001 Disrespecting Americas last greatest President since JFK(Clinton was good to). You are what make America look bad.
theBOURN3idiot 11 months ago
@theBOURN3idiot The truth will set you free. What is this "America" you speak of? Corporate colonial empire wielding worthless currency, with a death squad military enforcing its rule worldwide including among its gullible slave citizens? Wake up, knob.
bc9021010001 11 months ago 7
The fact that Reagan put that ridiculous wig on every day and thought it looked good is a clue.
bc9021010001 1 year ago 9
@bc9021010001
ACCYUALLY, the man did NOT wear a wig. Do a little research before you accuse people and you won't appear to be ignorant...
mazakman1957 1 year ago
@mazakman1957 Oh yeah, men in their 70s and 80s quite naturally have thick chestnut hair and a low, square hairline. Yup uh huh happens all the time. No it's not incredibly naive to believe that no not at all ...
bc9021010001 1 year ago 26
@bc9021010001 Are you implying that Reagan wore a wig or had a hair transplant? You are nothing short of a complete idiot if you believe that.
Robohump 1 year ago
@bc9021010001 Might not be a wig, but he dyed it with the FDA banned red dye #2.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago 2
This Man won the cold war. He presented himself in a way that made me proud to be an American every day he served. Everything this Man did was for the better of our country. To attempt to cast a cloud on this great American is to desecrate his soul. Dr sanjay.... GFYS.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Won the cold war? Please. When will that propaganda end. The Soviet Union was coming apart long before Raygun showed up. Do a little research, perhaps watch "How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin."
Stop spouting talking points you got from some talking head.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY You heard me correct, "won the cold war". I lived through it, stop trying to rewrite history. I remember when carter was in office. USSR warships off our coast, hostages being taken in Iran and the US appearing weak. The day Reagan was inaugurated the remaining 52 hostages were released (look it up). The USSR was kept in check while Reagan was in office, and he set in motion the ultimate demise of the USSR. Get your head on straight, and stop trying to rewrite history.
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
@TheUsman2000 Oh....the errors. Let's go through them...
"Won the cold war." Well, not really. The USSR was breaking down long before the raygun showed up. You'd be hard pressed to find any Russian to say Reagan killed communism. Go watch "How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin."
"USSR warships off our coast." Yeah, so? We were off theirs.
The day Reagan was inaugurated the remaining 52 hostages were released (look it up). Ah... I love this one... (con't)
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY Rumors persist to this day that Reagan cut a deal with the Ayatollah to prevent President Carter from obtaining the hostages release. A charge, that VP candidate George Bush traveled over a weekend on a private jet to Paris to meet with rep's of the Ayatollah at the King George V hotel.
Daddy Bush has never given incontrovertible evidence that he was in the U.S. on the weekend in question.
Check out the wiki article "October Surprise."
If true, and I don't doubt they did....
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY ... they cut a deal with the Ayatollah to provide arms and money for a delayed hostage release.
Such a deal is quite literally Treason. Yes, Treason. A much abused word these days.
You are aware of the October Surprise story? Considering the Iran/Contra scandal it's not hard to imagine Raygun & Co. were willing to dirty deal to win the Presidency.
You will say that the O.S. was never proved. True, but it was never dis-proven, either.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY You are un-American. You look at the facts and then you derive "your " perspective based on hearsay lol. Go ahead and try to rewrite history, but I lived through the Reagan years and this Great American did more for our Country than ANY other President going back to "our" great forefathers. And by the way, the Contra thing? Ask yourself one question... Did He do it for himself or the better of OUR Country? Different perspective from what we get from obama hu?
TheUsman2000 1 year ago
The unique thing that matters was that he was the best president of the USA in 20 century.
Zmurex 1 year ago
Raygun was a shill for the military-industrial complex. The decline of the middle class began with Dutch.
It amazes me that so many right wingers that post here support tax policies that screw the middle class. Someone should offer to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
Don't think it kicked in until after he was out of office. I think the opposition wants to convince you he had it the whole time in office. Bullshit. I miss Reagan.
LedWilde 1 year ago
Sure he had it while president. It was pretty obvious. How he became known as "The Great Communicator" is beyond me. He was a half rate actor and a half rate president.
beentheredonethatb4 1 year ago
@beentheredonethatb4 How DARE u say reagan was a half rate president!?!?!?! At best he was 1/16th
OnThatPowder 1 year ago
By this yardstick, I'd say Mrs. Palin has already suffered stultifying attrition of her brains. In any case, Reagan's ultimate mental deterioration was a fitting garnish for his life-long academic incompetence.It's shameless sentimentality for us to regard Mr.Reagan as a Presidential hero of the likes of FDR or Lincoln. The man simply had a flair for publicity and B-grade hollywood feature films. Nevertheless,RIP Mr.Reagan
WhenLilacsLast 1 year ago
@WhenLilacsLast Thanks for giving me a good laugh. FDR a presidential hero?Ha Ha Ha. Switch that around and say Lincoln and Reagan were presidential heroes and you will be correct.
jharv1979 1 year ago
Even if he did have a touch of it, he still had more sense in one lobe of his brain than ALL the combined democrat party brains combined!
All he did is rebuild the economy after years of high inflation and unemployment, and WIN THE COLD WAR!!
He forgot more about good government before he died than all living liberals have ever learned!
mazakman1957 1 year ago
@mazakman1957 Wow, a right winger actually now admits what was an open secret back during Reagan's second term.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@RandallFlaggNY There you go, using a tired old liberal trick...LIE about what I said, even while my words are PLAINLY VISIBLE, in order to twist it inside your liberal little mind, which makes it truth to you & others afflicted with the disease of liberalism.
I admitted NOTHING! Reread it S l o w l y... I said "Even IF he did". I KNOW he didn't during his terms. I was making the point that the liberals who fought tooth & nail against his magnificent strategy were WORSE than senile at best!!
mazakman1957 1 year ago
Hey! I know that place @ UCI. Anyways, isnt that kind of a slap in the face of democrats? Their most hated and successful political opponent accomplished what he did with a little bit of Alzeihmers?
theaznfishy 1 year ago 2
@theaznfishy
AMEN to that! Liberals are always saying stupid stuff that is so telling...like Nancy Pelosi saying there should be an investigation into "Whoever is funding those who disagree with [president] obama". I hope they don't spend millions doing that, I can tell her straight out - I HAVE A JOB, Nancy! SO DO MILLIONS OF OTHER SENSIBLE AMERICANS!!
Liberal democrats (I am gong to quit using both terms, they are just idiotic liberals) think that all Americans are as stupid as they are!
mazakman1957 1 year ago
my bad its on page 3
mikestarzz 1 year ago
Even if he had Alzheimeir's disease he was able to win a presidential debate with a younger opponent. go figure!
gianca60 1 year ago
My political views aside, it does not take a genius to figure out that President Reagan was in the early stages of Alzheimer's during as least part of his presidency. My gosh, remember his 2nd term? Couldn't remember anything, looked so absent-minded, falling asleep at a dinner with Mikhail Gorbachev....yeah, he had it.
GeorgiaKev 1 year ago
I tend to disagree with the analysis based on my laymen understanding of alzheimers. The disease hits quick and to say he had the disease 10 years prior to the diagnosis makes me want to research the matter further.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
The Reagan legacy is mixed at best. He'll go down in history as a high mid-tier president once history gets through with him. He is by no means a great president. Iran-Contra was a criminal conspriacy and he rightfully should have been impeached.
cracks21229 1 year ago
@cracks21229
You know nothing about history if you are saying Reagan's results were mixed at best. Reagan was the best president since Lincoln. Even then, I'd vote for Reagan.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@Kickingit06 Wow! Best since Lincoln. What did you like best, the crippling budget deficits he left in his wake or the dealing with Iran for hostages and then supplying the Contra's with assistance despite a law banning such aid?
cracks21229 1 year ago
@cracks21229
Boo f'ing hoo, Reagan allegedly went through some backdoor channels to save American hostages. What an f'ing terrible president. And there was nothing crippling about the 80's. GDP rose more than any other time in American history. Learn your f'ing facts and stop hating. Reagan believed in prosperity and independence. Your Obama believes in insititutionalism, beauracracy and a soup kitchen state.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@Kickingit06 If what you're saying is true, why did the federal government grow more during the 8 years Reagan was in office than it did during the previous 200+ years of our country's history? The economy was strong towards the end of his presidency because of the deficits he ran up for his defense build-up. And before you say it was a Democrats' fault, please remember the Republican controlled the Senate for the first 6 years of the Reagan presidency.
GeorgiaKev 1 year ago
@GeorgiaKev
FDR's New Deal, LBJ's Great Society - Reagan is very well known for his limited government doctrine. I think you should learn a bit more of history. But if you have some sort of link or something that you can show me what you mean then I'd like to look at it by the numbers.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@Kickingit06 too bad he expanded the federal govt, cockdog
greeniem 1 year ago
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Kickingit06 1 year ago
@greeniem
Don't come out of your trailer and think I care what you have to say green. The adults are talking.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@Kickingit06 Limited? What a joke. Research the size of the U.S. Government before and after Raygun.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
@Kickingit06 Reagan did go through backdoor channels negotiating with Iran, which was against the law. The 80's were the beginning of this current economic depression we are in. Reagan's free trade polices and deregulation are the main sources to our current woes. Sorry, but that is the fact.
cracks21229 1 year ago 2
@cracks21229 I don't know what's worse. You're lack of knowledge of history or economics. 1. Reagan was never substantially connected as having knowledge in the Iran Contra Affair. 2. It was a small potatoes deal that the media pretends is some huge scandal 3. FDR smuggled weapons in WWII when the USA was supposedly neutral. I somehow doubt you're even applying your own standard equally - Typical Lib - And by lib I'm not castrating all of the philosophies rather I am associating the character..
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@cracks21229 character of the people of your movement. 4. There are various economic factors that were great under Reagan (which starkly contrasted Carter so learn some history). GDP, Housing, Employment, Technology, The End of the cold war helping for the world econom to boom in the 90's. Learn your facts and your history flunky. I shouldn't even be responding to your ignorance.
Kickingit06 1 year ago
@cracks21229 lol seriously. preach on
1stTrillionaire 1 year ago
All liberals should take the cognitive test
bleekblock 1 year ago
@bleekblock get his crippled old rotting dick out of your mouth
greeniem 1 year ago
People who are "out of it" don't win the Cold War...Reagan did.
stafflvr 1 year ago
@stafflvr bullshit. Because the soviet collapsed on Reagan's watch was coincidental at best....they were heading that way since the 1920s and everyone knew it. Read Nixons "The Real War"
BlankUberAlles 1 year ago 2
All comments aside, I would welcome a president like Reagan over that unqualified idiot in the White House today.
fegan3 1 year ago
This is why I watch Fox News.
BrownDogProductions1 1 year ago
@VWSue
Indeedly. instead of working delivery at Joe's Bongo-Potatoe Chips, we had to buy a truck from Joe and take on all the responsibilities thereof ourselves. Fewer guys could do this so Joe cut back biggie on employees and all those side costs. Territories expanded hugely and the torpedo effect against the working man just kept mushrooming. Thanxx, Ronnie.
lumpagogo 1 year ago
Reagan did not have any memory problems when in the White House. People were trying to say he was too old to run for President at age 70 already. Its another liberal hatred that resonates with those who want to hate Reagan. Nobody watched Reagan more closely than me as far as ordinary Americans. I never once saw him act as though he was confused. Although being in DC is confusing even for the best of minds since it is full of nutcases!
Marksnotebook 1 year ago
@Marksnotebook "Reagan did not have any memory problems when in the White House."
Source please, ass-clown.
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
I'd take a Reagan with the possibility of Alzheimers than an Obama who knows exactly what he is doing in systematically destroying this great country - Reagan, Alzheimers or not, is rolling over in his grave with the socialist policies and agenda Obama and his cohorts in Congress are putting into place.
reagangal 1 year ago
Let me tell you: I met Reagan in 1991, when he addressed a group of 300 and took questions for an hour. I remember thinking, "wow, I hope I'm half as sharp as this guy when I'm that age".
A 10-year diagnosis of Alzheimers that took him immediately out of the public? C'mon, give me a break! The Alzheimers diagnosis was just a convenient way to shut him away from the press and the juducial system, and, like William Casey, he never, ever had to answer one word about Iran Contra or arms sales.
moproducer 1 year ago
By 1983, Reagan was so senile he didn't even recognize some of his cabinet appointments.
AtlasShruggery 1 year ago
@AtlasShruggery
Do you have a reliable source for this statement that you made so matter of fact-ly?
reagangal 1 year ago
I am a lefty....now you hate me because of this one statement... right wing people aren't nuts at all.
fasthandsz 1 year ago
This is a liberal new company trying to make Reagan look bad. If Reagan had alzheimer's then Obama has it also. He repeats himself and says um, um, um a lot...oh wait that's just how he is when someone does not tell him what to say. lol
confederateoutl 1 year ago
trying to make Reagan look bad? Reagan was the worst thing America ever went through
Reagan shifted the wealth of the lower and middle class into the hands of the Upper Class
Everything wrong in America and much of the world can be contributed to Reagans Presidency
HateRepublicans 1 year ago
@HateRepublicans
He did help the economy
webergrill1 1 year ago
he didn't help the economy, he was successful at making the rich people live like kings, we are now paying for his mistakes now
HateRepublicans 1 year ago
@HateRepublicans the name says it all.... i like to here others opinions but read this idiot.. what a loser
mikestarzz 1 year ago
@HateRepublicans
You were what..4 years old when he was president? You don't know CRAP about what was happening then. Yes, He was responsible for many people becoming millionaires, but that was a good thing - Millionaires EMPLOY people! How many people will lose their jobs after Obama gets done robbing the rich?
MILLIONS!! But that will make liberals like you happy because America will be suffering, and all liberals despise America and people who become rich by EARNING it instead of STEALING!
mazakman1957 1 year ago
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trying to make Reagan look bad? Reagan was the worst thing America ever went through
Reagan shifted the wealth of the lower and middle class into the hands of the Upper Class
Everything wrong in America and much of the world can be contributed to Reagans Presidency
HateRepublicans 1 year ago
First, I hate politics. I think that it's a puppet show with corporate puppetmasters.
BUT I lean Democratic.
Now, anyone who claims that Reagan had Alzheimer's disease during 1984 is an utter moron who knows nothing about the disease. The timeline of Alzheimer's disease is fairly consistent. Someone who has it survives 10 years. The longest known case I've heard is 15 years. 20 years? Almost impossible-- especially when you consider that he would been in stage one for more than ten years.
Idi0cracy 2 years ago
My mother met him in 1986 and has always said that he had no idea where he was.
dulceburro 1 year ago
@Idi0cracy I remember news reports late in Ronnie's 2nd term hinting every so slightly that Ronnie Ray-gun was "detached" from the proceeding around him, or "aloof."
Hint hint...
RandallFlaggNY 1 year ago
he should have had genetic testing for this
MANSHOTS 2 years ago
Reagon was an old man! HELLO of course he's going to bable and forget stuff. Now I understand he suffered from Alzheimer's but he was still just plain OLD!
CassieDynomite 2 years ago
No, it doesn't say much about the American public, just like electing Cheney/bush twice does. Easily led, and often not able to make informed decisions. It as all the more important that critical thinking be a major part of school curriculum from the earliest grades.
TheGranule 2 years ago
He possibly had the disease and still won 49 states in 84. That doesn't say much about the democrats.
p2breaker 2 years ago
Thats exactly what I was thinking..
hwoods01 2 years ago
Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk died at his home on November 27, 2008.
MIKESOWELL 2 years ago
sad rip
CassieDynomite 2 years ago