State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 2/18/81

[mamadoenut]

Ronald Reagan is a natural leader. I wish he was leading our country. 

[Symphony1thehen]

I see Reagan in Newt Gingrich!

[bigtexas128]

Classic Reagan. Simple and to the point. Truthful and without bias and division.

[misraproductions]

Jimmy Carter must have 11 youtube accounts.

[noah24]

who are the two gentlemen that are typing, right below President Reagan?

[trafficlight9199]

"Government isn't the answer". What that actually means is that democratic controls should be thrown aside in favour of rampant individualism, something the younger Reagan as a Democrat opposed. And who saves the sinking ship when individualism takes the world to the edge of the abyss e.g. 2008-09? The taxpayer i.e. government bailouts. If America can co-operate in the bad times, why can't it when times are good? It's as if FDR was never born,

[MrCigarbob]

What a great man Reagan was... I pray I bare witness to another president in office that is half the man Reagan was. He was a great leader!

[ChihuahuaboyDH]

"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar". - Theodore Roosevelt

"What this country really needs, is a President who is willing to stand up for, fight for, & believe in America again!". - Anonymous

Your country misses you, Ronald Wilson Reagan...Rest well, Mr. President. Thank you for your service to your country (R.I.P.).

[JoeLoro]

@tttfrenetic should he only look at one person....the one person right in front of him??? You DO realize that the State of the Union Address is given inside of Capitol in Congress which is a large "amphitheater" type of set-up... He is speaking to ALL... UNLIKE THE DUNCE OBAMA WHO CAN'T SPEAK WITHOUT THE PHONETIC SPELLING OF ALL THE WORDS ON THE TELEPROMPTER... OBAMA IS DISCONNECTED FROM HIS AUDIENCES, A THE IDIOT BOX (aka teleprompter) IS REALLY WHO HE IS SPEAKING AT.

[tttfrenetic]

He moves left and right constantly. Reagan the pendulum .

[you65421]

@tttfrenetic Haha, well you could say that Obama looks back and forth so much (from reading teleprompters) that you could put rap or hip hop in the background and it would look like he is jamming to it.

[kirby123362]

Loved this man. The first president I voted for as a young 18 yr old. Boy do we need someone like him now. A Great American and a great human being. He loved this country like no other president.

[rumschlager]

Am I living in 1981 or in 2011? I was born in 1979. It took less than 30 years for history to repeat itself. All of our elected officials need to have degrees in history.

[gopconservative78]

The last time we had a REAL President

[Commandoj251]

please hold your applauds until the end. thats what makes these things 2 or 3 hours long

[22reTOYOTA]

Thanks for posting this. I watched this last night instead of obama's bullshit.

[AmyLeesPetWookiee]

Thank you for uploading this. It's refreshing to see this - an actual president who upholds the constitution and the nation's beliefs instead of trying to turn it into a socialist paradise. I very much loved Reagan's stance on the unions too. We need someone with a spine now...

[LHZZ12MM]

a million in $1000 bills would be 4 inches high. A trillion dollars in $1000 bills "...would be 67 miles high..."...and now in 2010 we can multiply that by (almost) 14 trillion...or... (67 x 14) = 938 miles high. It's beyond time to put on the brakes!

[eurohim]

High interest rates are a sign that there isn't enough savings.

[jmattrone]

He took no crap from anyone!!

[mawzaroo1]

Obama needs to listen to this speech

[openroad88]

Back when we had a real president. Honesty, specifics, and a game plan.

[phoenixbornagain]

The duplicity and lying culture of the spiritually lost and morally corrupt collection of lost souls known as the American liberal.

Perhaps the most sad point of liberalism is that by its nature of absorption of the lowest of mankind, its very existence requires that a remedy action be taken to counter its effects. If not, then just like an ideological bacteria, it will destroy any host society that it should spring up in.

[joseehan]

i wasnt alive yet but i love this guy

[trent730]

Why are there democrats??

[MrArchieBunker]

Mr. President, where are you when we need you? You are missed, desperately. God bless your memory.

[Billboardmister36]

I was 7 years old when Reagan became President. Never really knew why he was so popular. But looking back on this, I can see and understand why now. We need somebody like Reagan now in the GOP.

[rbrowninc]

@Billboardmister36 Amen to that.

[dug3400]

the last president who believed in the constitution.

[Stiagra]

@dug3400 LOL ur joking right?

[RushLimborg]

You know what the worst part is?

In the end, the Democrat Congress fought EVERY--SINGLE--ONE of these spending cuts The Gipper proposes here.

And they had the AUDACITY to blame HIM for the big deficit....

[232009jordan]

Obama on his best day wouldnt come close to this man on his worse!

[ocean3da]

The oil declined in 1970.

[jsbruzina]

My god, this is the State of the Union speech for January 2012 ....

[maxangst]

Or January 27, 2010.

[radconserv86]

If we have another Reagan.

[bigshiznice]

god rest your soul President Reagan. Thank you for your greatness.

[Dimitritheechidna1]

George Bush looks bored.

[RushLimborg]

Heh. Not NEARLY as bored as Joe Biden looked in OBAMA's first SOTU speech....

[rgrizer]

A true American

[smittythreefiveseven]

The GREATEST President of our wonderful nation bar NONE

[ChadWardenTV]

@smittythreefiveseven what about George Washington and Abe Lincoln?

[Kimmis1990]

@smittythreefiveseven Reagan the greatest president ever? he raised taxes on the poor and middle class. made tax cuts for the rich (witch never worked) and exploded the debt. come on. I could go on. High unemployment. Libya. Niaragua. Lebanon.

[MrAlexKeaton]

What a contrast to Obama.