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Bill Clinton writes in remembrance of Reagan (Newsweek)
Newsweek/MSNBC ^ | June 14, 04 | Bill Clinton

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; reagan
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To: ReaganRulez2000
Clinton came out on top on this one . . ."

I disagree. Please see my post: #19.

21 posted on 06/16/2004 8:46:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: sinkspur
...Bush is not the communicator ...

I understand Bush without a problem. I prefer a direct statement.

If I want poetry, I'll listen to the rats or the terrorists.

I fully agree with your characterization of spine of steel though.
23 posted on 06/16/2004 8:53:02 PM PDT by Joe_October (Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
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To: ReaganRulez2000
...COMMUNICATIION IS THE KEY.....

LISTENING IS THE KEY.
24 posted on 06/16/2004 8:54:08 PM PDT by Joe_October (Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
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To: churchillbuff

Bump for later


25 posted on 06/16/2004 8:55:19 PM PDT by hattend
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To: BenLurkin

1994 election, 1995 Congress.



;O)


26 posted on 06/16/2004 8:57:54 PM PDT by Petronski (Ronald Reagan: 1015 electoral votes.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Sickening!

He must have mistaken us for someone who gives a rat's rear what he thinks. I guess he is making up for not being allowed to speak at President Reagan's memorial in DC. What a complete *ss!

Get off the stage already, Bill Clinton. You are so over with everyone except your loving partisan liberal media "friends" who think we should know when you shower.


27 posted on 06/16/2004 8:58:14 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Petronski

D'oh!


28 posted on 06/16/2004 9:05:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: churchillbuff
From L.D. Brown's speech at the March for Justice --

I gaze now on the White House and think of Vince walking its halls. And that leads me to a memory from the days when Bill was governor. Hillary and Chelsea and my wife and I were up in Washington together and driving in a cab past the White House. Little Chelsea, upon seeing this big white house, began begging her mother and nanny - my wife - to take her on a tour. The supposedly sweet, motherly Hillary launched into her usual sharp scolding of her daughter. Chelsea was quiet and Hillary looked out the window at the White House, then home to President Ronald and Nancy Reagan and told her child "Chelsea, I'll take you on a White House tour when someone decent lives there!"

29 posted on 06/16/2004 9:09:37 PM PDT by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: Lady In Blue

ReaganRulez2000 was a Moby troll. He's gone ;)


30 posted on 06/16/2004 9:17:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Reagan Man
Personally, I liked this tribute to President Reagan, from the same article. KIRK DOUGLAS: ACTOR

Too bad that class didn't rub off on Kirk's son.

31 posted on 06/16/2004 9:20:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: churchillbuff
Clinton is posturing for his next job:

Secretary General of the United Nations.

32 posted on 06/16/2004 9:42:35 PM PDT by Michael Smith
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To: kellynla

This puke just had to chime in like America cares what he has to say about President Reagan. Gawd just hearing the name Clinton has me wanting to take a long shower.


33 posted on 06/16/2004 9:48:21 PM PDT by Gkubly
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To: churchillbuff

Ironic since Clinton owes his very existence as a viable candidate to the Democrat Pary forming a leadership conference to deal with the Reality of Reagan.


34 posted on 06/16/2004 10:31:14 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: longtermmemmory

The real irony is Bill Clinton's DLC and "New Democrat" philosophy has found no takers in his own party. It was like a pair of clothes that never fit right. Now liberals can revel in being what they always were instead of having to bite their lips to be me-too Republicans.


35 posted on 06/17/2004 1:06:40 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: hole_n_one

idiot


36 posted on 06/17/2004 4:58:12 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: churchillbuff

Leave it to Newsweak to give this slug the opportunity to say what he would've said at Ronald Reagan's funeral.

Nancy Reagan has alot more sense than the folks at Newsweak.


37 posted on 06/17/2004 5:03:27 PM PDT by Pete'sWife (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: Pete'sWife

Well, at least Clinton is admitting that Reagan was an extremely consequential president, changing the terms of debate and altering history. If you read Gerald Ford's remembrance in the same Newsweek, he refuses to give Reagan credit for ending the cold war, but specifically says it was the accomplishment of all presidents combined.


38 posted on 06/17/2004 9:22:19 PM PDT by churchillbuff (q)
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