[SamAdams76]

President Bush may be no Reagan but I tell you this, when 241 of my fellow Marines were slaughtered in a truck bombing back in 1983, we waited in vain for six years for Reagan to do something about it. All of us were raring to go over there and kick some terrorist butt.

Bush may not be as gifted as Reagan with respect to connecting with the American people and projecting a presidential image, but at least he's a man of action. Based on past experience, I think the terrorists are more afraid of G.W. Bush than they ever were of Reagan.

[MJY1288]

Don't get me wrong, I love Ronald Reagan for what he did to turn this country around, But IMHO George W. Bush is as much of, or even more of, a leader than our beloved Ronnie.

[js1138]

Bush may not be as gifted as Reagan with respect to connecting with the American people and projecting a presidential image...

GW projects the most amazing image of any politician in my lifetime. I was a child under Eisenhower, and he projected an image of quiet competence that made people feel safe in the midst of a nuclear cold war.

Bush has some of this, but he connects at an emotional level that Eisenhower never did. You know he means what he says. He also has some of the best speech writers since Kennedy's.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

President Bush may be no Reagan but I tell you this, when 241 of my fellow Marines were slaughtered in a truck bombing back in 1983, we waited in vain for six years for Reagan to do something about it. All of us were raring to go over there and kick some terrorist butt.

Bush may not be as gifted as Reagan with respect to connecting with the American people and projecting a presidential image, but at least he's a man of action. Based on past experience, I think the terrorists are more afraid of G.W. Bush than they ever were of Reagan.

AMEN!

[Truthsearcher]

You maybe right, but Ronald Reagan had a bigger fish to fry, namely the Evil Empire.

Criticizing Reagan for not being tougher on islamic terrorists is like criticizing our founders for not being tougher on slavery. They were all working within the constraints of their time and circumstances.