Posted on 06/07/2004 8:20:49 AM PDT by yankeedame
Monday, June 7, 2004
NOVEMBER 9, 1989
Do you remember November 9,1989? Do you remember thousands of West Berliners waiting on their side of the wall with bottles of champagne while East Germans were breaking through?
Just wondering ... but did any Democratic president ever ask the Soviet Union to tear down the wall in Berlin. The truth is that Ronald Reagan was the president who won the Cold War. Within just a few days the Democrats and their media myrmidons are going to be working full-bore to deny him that legacy.
The Cold War, you see, was really World War III. The left isn't comfortable with all of this praise for the Republican who won World War III while they're trying to defeat the president who is presently fighting World War IV.
You need to get on the Internet to see what the loyal Democrats are saying on Democraticunderground.com. You'll find such postings as: "The hysteric media outburst has already begun, his crimes against humanity notwithstanding. The blunt idiocy of that national self-deprecating spectacle makes me sick to my stomach. Other than that, I'll proceed to celebrate the news in private. For now. " (Posted by NV1962)
And here's another post from Democraticunderground.com. This one from "mopaul."
"I don't care what killed him, Alzheimer's or the black plague, I'm glad he's dead and I don't care how many times I'm scolded or chastised for it. the day he took office was the most depressing day of my life, and i swore, that on the day he died, I'd drink a toast of celebration and figuratively piss on his grave and have said so to several Gingrich sucking Reagan worshipping dickheads. F--k Ronald Reagan, and i hope in some small way my fuck you counteracts all the bullshit we are going to be hammered with for a fucking month after the fall of this 'greeeeeaaaaaat human being'. F--k you Ronnie, here's to ya pal. see ya in hell"
Other posters on Democraticunderground.com followed with such comments as: "Yup, one less Nazi terrorist in the world with the death of Ronald Reagan"
Here's a direct link to some of those postings. It might be removed by the time you get there, but give it a shot. Today is a good day to take a close look into the black hearts of our compassionate liberal friends.
Also ... were you listening to Prairie Home Companion your local "public radio" station on Saturday? It's a live broadcast, you know. In the middle of that broadcast Garrison Keillor told the audience that Ronald Reagan had died. You could hear liberals in the audience cheering and clapping. Class act, those Democrats.
This morning I heard CNN Candy Crowley say that Reagan was the president who cut taxes but almost doubled the deficit. Not one mention of the tremendous economic growth that followed Reagan's tax cuts ... then as now with the Bush tax cuts. It would be more accurate to say that Reagan cut the taxes while congress doubled the deficit, but you're not going to hear that from the mainstream media.
Here's why. Democrats and the media are anxious to pin current budget deficits solely on George Bush. The reason for the deficits? No .. it's not because congress is spending at record levels. It's because George Bush cut taxes. To make this stick to George Bush you have to paint Reagan with the same brush.
Perhaps Reagan's greatest accomplishment was his ending of the Cold War. Now this is one accomplishment the left will never give Reagan credit for. The very moves he made to bring the Soviet Union to its knees were moves that were vehemently opposed by the left.
Stationing Pershing nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe would be a prime example. Reagan did this to answer threatening Soviet moves. The left said Reagan was going to hasten a nuclear war with the Soviets. The Soviets saw it differently. They saw it as resolve. It also became clear to them that this president would match them move for move. The Soviet Union soon spent itself into insolvency trying to keep up with Ronald Reagan.
Just last week Thomas Friedman at the New York Times wrote an article giving credit for setting in motion the chain of events that brought down the Soviet Union to George Bush (41), to Brent Scowcroft and James Baker, and to European leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Francois Mitterrand. There was no mention of Ronald Reagan. Was this carelessness? Forgetfulness? Or was it an intentional effort from this New York Times writer to deny Reagan his legacy?
No doubt ... Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime.
I remember crying with my fellow NCOs at the MCAS Beaufort enlisted club.
I was on duty in a quonset hut at Camp Tamez, Cubi Pt, Phillipines, watching the historic event on AFRTS, (Armed Forces Radio/Television Service). Coincidentally, I was on WESTPAC there with a squadron from MCAS Beaufort.
I felt an enormous sense of pride in our nation that day, but being a Marine, I'll never admit to crying. ;^)
Ha! Fitting duty for the President of the greatest national entity in the universe. And maybe it was the limit of Carter's capabilities too...to keep track of whose using the WH tennis court. What was he thinking?
Which squadron? I was in VMFA-451.
BTW CNN has a link where you can leave your thoughts on Reagan I have left two so far,one at work and one on this computer and neither one of them have shown up. As of 10:00 last night they still only have one page of comments.Anyone else want to see if they can leave a message and get it posted?
I guess Friedman knows better than Thatcher herself then. Rush was just talking about a dinner to which he was invited, the guest of honor was Margaret Thatcher.
Rush asked her a question, re: the media claiming that Gorbachev was responsible for the fall of the wall. She became very stern, was incensed at the notion that anyone but RR was the impetus for this.
In f'n credible.
I was in VMFA-115, in '89 and VMFA-122 prior to that, we've probably crossed paths. Small world, eh?
I view them as every bit as pernicious and evil as the Nazis. I seriously believe that only a military solution will be capable of dealing with the threat to the world that leftists pose.
I, for one, would cheer that solution.
I will be recording Pres. Reagan's funeral service on Friday and will be particularly interested in hearing the Iron Lady's tribute to him that will be played there (her health prevents her from public speaking). That will be something to have for the ages.
"Political beliefs are more important than the gift of life? That is quite simply the most morally repugnant thing I have contemplated in a while."
Well, that defined the Left rather clearly. They revel over the dismemberment of a tiny infant, championing such a barbarism by saying it's the woman's "right" to snuff out such an innocent life. The Left is devoid of anything positive and meaningful; its foundation is ignorance and hatred. The Left is a cancer that must be excised from the body politic of American life.
Then don't introduce Free Repubic to her, the nutter fringe here will soon enough write something to swear off Republicans.
I'm ready. Let's roll...
That goes a tad overboard, but hey... if it'll save one child....
Knowing Keillor, his only regret was probably that he wasn't able to joing in the cheering because his mike was open. He probably just sat up there with a big sh!t-eating grin on his face while the applause went on.
"To liberals, life is a mercy granted by the state, not a gift from God."
That's a fact.
Oh yeah. I forgot.
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