Celebrate President Ronald Reagan's 100th Birthday

[clancg2003]

So how long until you guys dig up Reagan and clone him?

[slr1238]

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM! Less government is best government.the smaller the federal government the more honesty and integrity it has and the more efficient and productive it is! RONALD REAGAN proved this! RONALD REAGAN'S birthday february 6 should be a national holiday!

[slr1238]

AMERICA IS THE GREATEST! GOD BLESS RONALD REAGAN.HE WON THE COLD WAR! screw all the commie-nazi marxist hippies. get a job.

[newalm]

I remember when Reagan was giving a speech and some red diaper doper baby hippie character type stands up and starts giving Reagan a bunch a crap. Reagan responded elequently with the facts and then told that bum to "shut up"! A class act by Reagan!

[Glinkaism1]

Ronald Ray-Gun wanted to put a shield over continental USA to avert any Star Wars attach. He was into his Alzheimer's Disease by then. He was a whore of the biggest greedy robber capitalists all through his life. they financed his Prez campaign. Look at two of his donors for verification: Walter Annenberg and Lew Wasserman. Both were mega-moguls.

[newalm]

I really miss Ronald Reagan.  We have not had a great President since.

[xyjoeyx]

Mr. President thank your for your extraordinary service!!...God bless you and God bless the United States of America.

[treid100182]

100 years old???

People, Reagan has been DEAD for a couple years now!!!

HE'S DEAD...and was to the LEFT of Obama, factually.

[IncreasedIntensity]

reagan was a horrible president

[newalm]

@IncreasedIntensity Only to the communist left.

[Glinkaism1]

Ray-Gun was a tool of greedy big business. He destroyed all local metro radio stations by allowing greedy broadcast conglomerates to take over as many stations as they want in metro areas.

So stop kissing the ass of this greedy capitalist stooge!

[mstraney]

@Glinkaism1 Wow, you're actually right. I'm genuinely impressed. If you only realized that in addition to Reagan, every president since has been a tool of a small handful of BIG business interests that would be progress. Also, almost everyone in the congress are shills for the same special interests(D & R). Obama crushed the Dorgan drug reimportation amendment on behalf of big pharma. Cheney gave no bid contracts to Haliburton. Walker's bill gives him authority to give no-bid unilaterally.

[newalm]

@Glinkaism1 Face it, communism is dead, despite you lefty liberals trying to keep it alive.

[nineinchsalsero]

Ronny, thanks for Bin Ladin and sending Rummy to meet with Saddam. Also thanks for trading those guns. You also helped us understand that ketchup really is a vegetable. Don't worry, we won't let the ideologues try to lie and make you out to be more disgusting than you really were.

[Voyage2Xtremes]

Reagan was a joke as President and he should be forgotten about

[Glinkaism1]

@Voyage2Xtremes 1,000 percent right!

[yakyakyak69]

Under Regan., CA went from 20th to 13th in personal income tax collected & from 4th to 1st. per capita revenue from corporate income taxes.

Reagan increased federal spending by 53%, added 250,000 new gov't employees, expanded the War on Drugs, created the "drug czar's office," & debased your 1980 dollar to 73 cents. Carter's $74B deficit ballooned to $155B under Reagan who imposed a 100% tariff on selected Japanese electronics.

Regan = NeoCon.

Google: "The Reagan Fraud — and After"

[Glinkaism1]

@yakyakyak69 Ronnie was stodge of the super rich. Guys like Walter Annenberg and Lew Wasserman, both billionaires. It is no coincidence that the Annenberg Foundation started a veneration shrine to Ronnie. And Lew Wasserman was head of MCA, the most powerful movie company in the world. "You cross Lew and you he'll screw" was the insider caveat.

[newalm]

@Glinkaism1 America was based on success! It is so typical of the liberals to trash wealth because they were not able to achieve it.

[Michele640]

I think you came to the wrong address... Reagan never, ever did anything like that!

[hank1961]

By far, the most over rated President of all-time.

[BlackFrost1728]

The greatest president of all time since the 20th century! Happy 100th birthday Ronald Reagan.

[nutt66]

169 people need to read a book

[nutt66]

a Conservative myth; starting with Reagan, ya'll had 30YEARS to fix the debt

...or the declining GDP

...or regulate the banking/financial sectors

...or fix the social services

...or end the military complex (war for profit)

...or secure the border

...or pass health care reform

...or end wasteful spending

...or to stop funding Fortune 500 companies

...or to make them pay their share of taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rocky19421]

I will always remember Ronald Reagan as the man who couldn't remember anything.

[rocky19421]

He raised taxes 11 times (ALL on the poor and middle class), he is responsibl­e for making the U.S. a debtor nation, he tripled the national debt, he ran an illegal and impeachabl­e shadow government­, he exchanged arms for hostages, he did nothing as unemployme­nt shot over 10 percent, he did nothing to reign in the AIDS epidemic, he de-regulat­ed the savings and loan industry . and, oh yeah, his chief budget person has already come out and said his entire economic policy was a fraud.

[arnie72]

"The problem is the deficit is -- or should I say -- wait a minute, the spending, I should say, of gross national product, forgive me -- the spending is roughly 23 to 24 per cent. So that it is in -- it what is increasing while the revenues are staying proportionately the same and what would be the proper amount they should, that we should be taking from the private sector." (Oct 1987, Ronnies first press conf. in seven (!) months on a question about whether taxes should be increased)

[arnie72]

This view of a timid, almost reverential press corps was shared by others in Reagan's PR team-- notwithstanding their often disingenuous complaints at the time about liberal bias. In "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency," author Mark Hertsgaard quotes former Reagan Communications director David Gergen as saying, "A lot of the Teflon came from the press. They didn't want to go after him that toughly."

[arnie72]

At a disjointed 30-minute news conference in June 1986, the President served up consistently muddled answers (aides had to immediately "clarify" several of their boss' claims), but no reporter present was willing to ask publicly what was wrong. None were willing to say that the President had no clothes. A top White House official privately marveled to the Los Angeles Times about "how easy the press was on him" and said that reporters treat Reagan "almost reverentially."

[Michele640]

Please, don't talk nonsense! Reagan has absolutely nothing to do with "police states", on the contrary he spent all his life fighting against them and defeating them.

[rubberbaby00]

I'd bet tens of thousands of Central Americans aren't celebrating his birthday, cause they're dead.

"Gracias por el Genocide Senor Reagan!"

[TheTalshiar]

For a movement that claims to hate communism there sure are a lot of similarities between them and the old soviet communist party and the current North Korean government. A strict authoritarian mindset, warmongering, rampant corruption and the need to live in an ideological fantasy world while everything crumbles around them. I'm surprised they they didn't preserve Reagan's corpse and put it on display.

[arnie72]

In her book "Reporting Live," former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl writes that she and other reporters suspected that Reagan was "sinking into senility" years before he left office. She writes that White House aides "covered up his condition"-- and journalists chose not to pursue it.

Stahl wasn't the only reporter to hold back. Nor were her bosses at CBS the only ones to pressure journalists to soften their coverage of Reagan, both of his policies and his person.

[the82spartans]

@arnie72 -- I have to say that is BS. The lefty press disliked Reagan and would have pounced on him if they had any suspisions about his health as Lefty Stahl's book suggests. Pure bull-roar.

[arnie72]

During Reagan's 1988 Moscow summit with Gorbachev, the New York Times noted that the President had fallen asleep at a meeting with Soviet dignitaries. The Times subtitled the article: "REAGAN IMPRESSES SOVIET ELITE." Two days later, another summit-related article in the New York Times attributed this quote about Reagan to Britain's Margaret Thatcher: "Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears." The article's headline: "THATCHER SALUTE TO REAGAN YEARS

[rocky19421]

The man set this country up for financial ruin and domination by the religious nuts, why in heavens name would I want to remember him in a good light. Not me...sorry­.

[arnie72]

one of the worst presidents in the history of this country. A marionette in the hands of the economic conglomerates. A senile men who slept within in his own cabinett meetings - and who talked about little green aliens all of the time. For the naive american people a charming deflection while the US weapon industry just grabbed the money.

In 2002/2003 the Americans believed their medias that the Iraq has WMDs-now they believe that this reptile was a good president - too bad for them

[cchanderson]

@arnie72 164 likes 15 dislikes...you are an ID10T.

[1Guitarslayer]

Hands down the greatest President of the 20th century.

[publiusovidius]

Anybody else remember how he supported apartheid in South Africa? Anyone else remember how he presided over a deficit which tripled? Anyone else remember how he didn't mind funding an El Salvadoran dictatorship which didn't have issues with nuns being raped? Anyone else remember how he traded arms for hostages when he said previously lied and said he wouldn't? Reagan was just another crooked politician.

[dwaynepeterzen]

@publiusovidius I sure do remember all of that...and I also remember Contra and the supposed War on Drugs...

[newalm]

@publiusovidius Anyone else remember when the liberal Democrats would kiss ass to communist regimes when Reagan was President? Remember how the liberal Democrats would appease dictators back then? If it were not for Reagan, Russia would still be the Soviet Union with its puppet communist countries.  Remember who weak our national defense was before Reagan was President?

[Raiderblack]

Ronald Reagan was the greatest President in my life time. He returned America to Greatness. Now we need another Reagan to set this ship straight.

[Michthemitch]

Reagan was A DISASTER for the country !

[Chgomusc630]

How we could use a man like Reagan again!!! Man, we were so blessed to have him as our President--a true leader!! Rest in peace, Mr President!

[gleaner88]

I was a Reagan delegate to state and district convention in 1980 & 1984. I am proud to have played a very small part in making Ronald Reagan President of this great country.

God Bless Ronald Reagan. Thanks Mr. President for your service to our country.

I know Ronald Reagan is in Heaven today looking down on our country, still believing, still seeing the Shinning City on the Hill.

Ronald Reagan=Great American.

[jd55192]

@gleaner88 Thanks for the $2.7 trillion dollar deficit and million public sector jobs created under Reagan!

[javeav]

I will take Ronald Reagan with Al Zeimers 1000 times over the healhty press that we have now.

[spayton100]

I gather you are around average age of 30???

Grown up, do as Glen Beck says " Look It Up. "

[sosenkowski]

Ronald Reagan - President who saved Poland. every Polish patriot should pray for his soul on the hundredth anniversary of his birth [*][*]

>>O Loving Father and Savior, forgive any wrongs that have been committed and welcome his beloved spirit into the warm embrace of your unending peace. Amen.<<

[spayton100]

You are right. I forgot my self for a min. I think if some of the media personalities had their lives picked on and examined like they do others they would start bring more Americanl.

Wikileaks probably could really tell a few things. LOL

If I believed in Cloning, President Regan would be the one to clone... Love him

[spayton100]

You are right. I forgot my self for a min. I think if some of the media personalities had their lives picked on and examined like they do others they would start bring more Americanl.

Wikileaks probably could really tell a few things. LOL

[philip0460]

Happy Birthday to trickle down man! Did it tricke down people? Wake up. Money for the rich, none for you LOL

[FreeAgain2]

"I know in my heart that man is good.

That what is right will always - eventually - triumph.

And there is purpose and worth to each and every Life." - Ronald Reagan

February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004.

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The 40th President of the United States 1981–1989.

Defeated the USSR without a shot, ended 14% inflation, & lifted America's spirits.

[ashide1]

Ronald Reagan was a great actor, and POTUS was the best role he ever landed.

[WoodyLittle]

What conservatives really admire about Saint Ronnie "I don't recall" Reagan is his considerable ability to bullshit so effectively. He was the ultimate carnival barker for neoconservatism before people got wise.

HIs brand of oh-so-wholesome sincerity and opportunistic patriotism wouldn't play in today's cynical, much more savvy climate. Reagan was the addled frontman for a power elite whose self-serving agenda has been exposed and widely rejected.

[philip0460]

@WoodyLittle

Perfect reply!

[WoodyLittle]

@philip0460

Heh, I was just a kid when Reagan was president and could never understand why so many adults seemed enamored of him. Even as a child, I could see he was nothing more than a slick pitchman who talked a lot but actually said very little.

Since then, I've acquainted myself with the policies of his administration. If he were around today, it's fair to say many conservatives would consider him a RINO. As Dick Cheney himself said of Ronnie, "Reagan proved deficits don't matter."

[spayton100]

Can you imagine how more famous he would be if there had been Fox News, Facebook and all the Media that is out there today. WOW

[grygus]

@spayton100 Today's media would destroy him. Ronald Reagan's legacy is a masterpiece of marketing; today's media isn't interested in promoting the President in this way. Tributes like this ignore a lot of mistakes he made; today's media would focus on those things.

[TropikalWaves]

America loves you Ronald Reagan. You were the best president in my lifetime. Your no nonsense, conservative ways are needed now more than ever. God Bless Ronald Reagan!!!

[spayton100]

@TropikalWaves

I agree. He did not play.....

[yakyakyak69]

I was a Regan fan but;

Under Regan., CA went from 20th to 13th in personal income tax & from 4th to 1st. per capita revenue from corporate income taxes. Reagan increased federal spending 53%, added 250,000 new civilian gov't employees, expanded the War on Drugs, created the "drug czar's office," & debased your 1980 dollar to 73 cents. Carter's $74B deficit ballooned to $155B under Reagan who imposed a 100% tariff on selected Japanese electronics.

Google: "The Reagan Fraud — and After"

[spayton100]

@yakyakyak69 You, as I Look It Up. I respect the persn on what they mean and say and do, rather than if I like them.

[yakyakyak69]

@spayton100 An old saying goes: "Talk is Cheap".

Reagan increased federal spending by 53%, added 250,000 new civilian gov't employees, expanded the War on Drugs, created the "drug czar's office," & debased your 1980 dollar to 73 cents. Carter's $74B deficit ballooned to $155B under Reagan who imposed a 100% tariff on selected Japanese electronics. Regan, NOT a “Constitutionalist” and NOT a REAL Conservative!

Regan was a Keynesian Statist!

Google: "The Reagan Fraud — and After"

[standup4America]

President Ronald Reagan didn't worry about compromise. He told it like it was and let others come along beside him, with a wink in his eye and a mischievous grin and sense of humor, he stood tall and he stood strong, and I loved him as a president for it! According to one of his books, John Wayne was his side-kick in standing strong against communism in Hollywood and the world. I thank God for President Ronald Reagan sharing his life with our country and the world,!

[festiveintoxications]

Thank You Mr. President, trickle down economics was SUCH A GRAND idea. Oh and thank you for shutting down those mental hospitals and ignoring AIDS, those 'other' people aren't real Americans any-who!

[craigdickson]

Reagan spent more in his first two years than Obama. This is all spoon fed propoganda. 

[232009jordan]

@craigdickson you find me 1.5 trillion dollars of yearly debtunder Ronald Reagan and ill kiss your ass!

[craigdickson]

@232009jordan The debt tripled under Reagan, from $900 Billion to 3 trillion

[TropikalWaves]

@craigdickson At least with Reagan, we knew were getting our "bang for the buck," since he brought down the Soviet Union overnight. This clown Obama has quadrupled the deficit in less than two years, and we've gotten nothing! This America-hater, Obama isn't worthy to lick Reagan's shoes!

[JackFlemingFan]

America needs another Ronald Reagan!!

[thesocialdemocrat]

propaganda!!!

[jmgrahl1]

@yakyakyak69

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president we've ever had. and have you seen the amount of debt we are in today because of our current president? our great great great grandchildren are still going to be paying this debt off.

[zloyobar]

Happy Birthday in your eternal rest my friend....you uncovered and set free the flame that burned within so many....To those of us who knew you we need to not only remember your words we need to live them and share them with those who may not have ever heard of you and the truths you spoke of your whole life Ronald Wilson Reagan.

alot of people are loooking for the next George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, the next Ronald Reagan he or she will emerge very soon....very soon

[232009jordan]

Ronald Reagan boarded a ship on a stormy sea, he took control of the ship, he calmed the passengers and the sea....he did both!

[yakyakyak69]

Gov't Statism & tyranny of public debt GREW under Regan!

[232009jordan]

@yakyakyak69 statism? i dont think reagan took over car companys or socialized heath care?etc. etc. thats statism! yeah the debt grew under reagan......but he grew the gdp by 8 trillion dollars also because he got govenment the fuck out of the way of the american people! and the reason why debt grew under reagan was the millitary build up too stop the commies!, which i know too the left is hard too deal with! President Obama wouldnt deserve to be a pimple on Ronald Reagans ass!

[oregon2720]

God Bless Ronald Reagan, on his 100th birthday.

[mtravisimo]

Mark Alan Travis WE COULD SHURE USE A MAN LIKE REAGAN IN OFFICE AGAIN THINK OF IT IF WE COULD HAVECHANGED THEUS CONSTITUTIONAND I COULD HAVE VOTED FOR HIM IN1988 IWHOULDHAVEINA HEART BEAT BUT IM GLAD I DID IN1984 2 TERMSIS AWSOME 3 WHOULDHAVE EVEN BEN MORE AW SOME

[southport97]

Let's dig him up and let him blow out 100 candles! I wonder if Zombie Reagan is still up?

[tothatextent]

America needs to be reminded that freedom isn't free. Your right to something does not mean it comes without effort. Liberty and justice is still in our grasp, we just have to have the guts to grab it. Let no one stand in the way of what is right - that is what America means to me.

[southport97]

@tothatextent

Freedom is free. Burning tires and molotov cocktails are not. 

[tothatextent]

@southport97 Right on brother. Do I hear an Amen?

[markjroberts43]

I feel honored to have been able to call this man my Boss.

[debbiechickie5]

I feel honored to have been able to call this man my Boss.

[mjjammer19]

America was a different place in the 80's. I simply want my America back, but honestly I am afraid it may be too late. If you don't believe me just skim down through the comments of many people and read what they say. Nobody cares about anything unless it is something that benefits them the most. Our society has grown into this relaxed state that it won't happen to me, but don't care if it happens to somebody else. Quit blaming everyone else and take some personal responsibility. Get a Life!

[mrmeder]

Five stars. Should be a Super Bowl commercial.

[proengelsrael]

OLD, GOOD AMERICAAAA... Happy B-Day !

[Michele640]

Roanald Reagan was simply a wonderful President. The previous message contains just hogwash. Thank you, President Reagan, for having existed and for promoting freedom and democracy all over the world!

[TheTalshiar]

@Michele640 Thanking the father of the modern police state for "promoting freedom and democracy all over the world." George Orwell is spinning in his grave.

[tishhead]

@Michele640 thank you for arming iran. thank you for running one of the most corrupt administrations in history. thank you for ignoring AIDS, causing needless deaths. thank you for supporting the racist regime in south africa. thank you for raising taxes on the middle class while you cut them for the rich. thank you for signing an amnesty bill for illegals. thank you for scrapping programs on alternative energy. thank you for ballooning the deficit.

[Sportshark]

If you ever need to induce vomiting, keep this video handy!

The Heritage Foundation is forgetting that its actions during this time killed many innocent Nicaraguans.

And didn't his actions training the Mujahadin in Afghanistan create Al-Queda?

Oh, and he sold Saddam Hussein the chemical weapons used to kill Kurds.

This video is an Orwellian Ministry of Truth style revision of a horrible president!

[RetSquid]

@Sportshark

I suppose you would have liked the Soviets to win the Cold War?

[ringgoldrebel1]

@Sportshark what you think we are gonna survive that wimpy bastard there now...whats the matter with you people don't you get it...That SOB would piss down his leg and think its raining..We need someone with balls and don't kiss ass...this country will never be great again..that bastard has destroyed it...we will show that SOB the door here directly.

[DusterMH53J]

I believe that Reagan is the Modern equivalent of what the founders would have been like today. So many people say that people today can't poossibly identify with the founders and vice versa. Reagon is important because he personifies the founder's intents in today's actions and language that people can identify with.

[3martijns]

Reagan Inspired Americans and thus the Economy Grew!

obamie and other Leftists have been Demoralizing the USA for many Years and thus Killing the Economy!!

This YT video explains exactly why the Left can Never change: "Former KGB Agent Explains the Brainwashing of America 1980's".

45 Goals of Communists in USA were Exposed in 1963, and Many have been Accomplished.

Communist Party website lists the Same Goals as the Democrats!!!

[PatriotMuscle]

Reagan also let so many thousand Cubans into America - which has destroyed Florida. Florida is no longer America, if you've ever been there.

And he also started this horrendous illegal immigration problem we have, by giving amnesty to 8 MILLION illegals before he left office.

No, his presidency was a dismal failure.

He may have been a great man in other ways, but he did terrible things to our country.

[Willredd94]

@PatriotMuscle First off most Cuban immigrants are granted amnesty because they are refugees. Those immigrants are deeply anti-communist and vote republican consistently 70-75%. Without Cuban Americans, Florida would be a Democrat super majority state.

[ringgoldrebel1]

@PatriotMuscle what you think we are gonna survive that wimpy bastard there now...whats the matter with you people don't you get it...That SOB would piss down his leg and think its raining..We need someone with balls and don't kiss ass...this country will never be great again..that bastard has destroyed it...we will show that SOB the door here directly.

[PatriotMuscle]

@ringgoldrebel1 I think that some of us will survive, or some parts of America will survive. But only due to folks like you and me.

[mayt7]

I'd rather celebrate Jefferson, Mason, Madison, Richard Lee, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams etc. for inspiration. If we want to restore the Republic, let us look to the source of it. Government grew under Reagan, under his veto pen. He expanded the unconstitutional war on drugs. Let us go back to our founders for inspiration, they understood and respected the limits of the Constitution and understood not to have confidence in man, but chain them down with the law.

[jbpnw]

Happy B-Day to the last truly great POTUS America was blessed to have.