Posted on 06/16/2004 8:01:11 PM PDT by churchillbuff
BILL CLINTON:
... In politics, President Reagan's success in 1984 after GOP victories in three of the previous four presidential elections prompted Democrats to intensify our efforts to revitalize our own party with new ideas rooted in traditional values. ...In Reagan's wake, New Democrats supported a strong defense, global cooperation, fiscal responsibility, welfare reform and a government that is less bureaucratic and more focused on giving citizens the tools to solve our own problems, faithful to our own roots as well as to modern conditions.
...[snip] I especially admired his unmistakable belief that freedom is a universal value that would come in time to all people in the world, and that we all had a responsibility to help speed the coming of that day.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
CLINTON: "See, I suck but I pretend I don't by not saying anything bad about Ronald Reagan. So please buy my BS and please buy my book. Which is what I want you to do and why I didn't say anything bad about Ronald Reagan".
"I especially admired his unmistakable belief that freedom is a universal value that would come in time to all people in the world, and that we all had a responsibility to help speed the coming of that day."
Tell that to Elian Gonzalez and those poor kids at Waco!
Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies.
The man's very breath smells like sh*t.
Kerry has to be saying to himself.......WTF?
I think the 'Toon is crediting his own victory to Reagan, in a rather indirect way.
That is an extraordinary statement. Did Clinton approve the release of those words under his signature? LOL
I loved it when I read that Nancy Reagan refused to let Klintoon speak at RR's funeral...
I read that Bubba went ballistic!!! LMAO
"Of course not sir, I'm a professional Newsweek journalist. We'll use whatever remarks are in the version of your remarks DNCFAX gives us to use. "
KIRK DOUGLAS: ACTOR
'I sold hot dogs with Ronald Reagan.'
It was over 40 years ago, to raise money for our children's school. The future president was so cheerful to our customers. He was a great communicator even then. We sold a lot of hot dogs.
He retained that cheerful, optimistic disposition all of his life—as president of the Screen Actors Guild, governor of California and president of the United States. Even at the end, his handwritten memo telling the world that he had Alzheimer's was devoid of any self-pity.
He gave validity to the theory that a poor American boy has a chance to grow up to become president. During his eight years in that office, he radiated that optimism to the world. Hollywood is often thought of as a home of liberal Democrats. But Hollywood's most important contribution in the political arena was Reagan: the man who won the cold war.
The dems really don't really have much choice but to grudgingly acknowledge Reagan as the 2nd Republican president they even consider as a good President (Lincoln being the first). Clinton will give credit to Reagan. In return we must bow down, worship Clinton and buy his friggin' book. Oh and we must all vote for Kerry because it's the dem's turn. We got 4 years of Dubya you know. :-)
It's a lie from beginning to end that it's not even worth parsing (He saw a lot of Reagan movies and one just last week? Pleeeze! Black churxhes burning in Arkansas?)
Well, realistically, we can only have one political messiah per generation.
Bush is not the communicator Reagan was, but he has a spine of steel when it comes to terrorism, and inspires, in his own way.
Surely he's more inspirational than his opponent, John Kerry, who's still fumbling around, trying to define himself.
You can only speak for yourself,and yourself alone. You cannot presume to speak for anybody else. Inspire? Did you get a chance to see how the troops at centcom were inspired by GWB today? As much as I liked President Reagan,I don't think he would be very happy to hear the disdain and dislike for a very good and decent man,who in my humble opinion will one day outshine the Gipper. GWB wants to be his own man just as his dad did.He and Bush 41 had every right to use their own ideas and not be tied down to any other president's ideas,and I don't care how great they were.Some seem to think #41 should have marched lockstep to every idea and policy of the Gipper. I think that is so unfair. There was only one Reagan just as there is only one GWB.We should appreciate each on his own merits and not try to denigrate either one.imho.
BTW, I don't have any problems with understanding or appreciating GWB's way of speaking.I rather enjoy listening to his way of speaking and if others don't like it - TOO BAD.
This guy is so full of sh*t his eyeballs are brown.
A bald faced lie.
The democrat party was NEVER interested in welfare reform - only the 1994 Republican Congress forced Clintooon to accept it. When his party objected he promised them he would "fix it" the following year. (That also was a lie but nobody ever called him on it.)
And 'strong on defense'? Please.
Amazing full frontal falsehoods. Or I guess it isn't all that amazing anymore.
Nancy Reagan was so right not to let this self-absorbed grifter take control of the podium.
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