As I posted yesterday... I feel like I've lost my father. There were two important men in my life who formed my political idealogy: my Grandfather and Ronald Reagan. As a child of the 80s, I only remember bits and pieces of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. But what I remember most is the pride my Grandfather felt for his country knowing that Reagan was leading us. My grandpa would often use words like strong, resolute, compassionate, trustworthy, genuine, and ‘smart like a fox’- one of grandpa’s favorites- to describe Reagan. So I grew up expecting these characteristics in a president.
So thank you, Mr. President, for helping shape a world where we are more free and more fortunate for having had you as our leader.
God bless you always.
We MUST pass those traits and expectations (all of which are critical to liberty and its longevity) on to the rising generation, and do it with such heart felt fervor, that they in turn pass it on to the next.
He allowed the press and his oppostiion and our enemies to think the worst of him and run with it...and therefore allowed them to underestimate him.
One of the best examples was the idea that his age had reduced his intellect and his ability to concentrate, particularly during his 2nd term. While they were thinking he was disabled and basically senile...he was busily using that tremendous vision and wonderful intellect and drive to engineer the plan that brought down the most dangerous and heavily armed totalitarian system in history...and then doing it, without hardly firing a shot.
Smart like a fox? Oh yes!