Ronald Reagan

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Originally Posted by Tank

Good script writers and tele-prompts, the man was an idiot, never had an original thought in his life, Regards Frank.

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and why do you say that??

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Originally Posted by clean32

and why do you say that??

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Because I can, Regards Frank.

Script writers and tele prompters is Obamas thing.

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Originally Posted by Tank

Because I can, Regards Frank.

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Yes Frank that's the good thing about living in a society that Reagon was quoting on...We can have our own opinion without fear or prejudice.
Cheers,
John ( disco 44 )

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Originally Posted by Tank

Good script writers and tele-prompts, the man was an idiot, never had an original thought in his life, Regards Frank.

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I have no real brief fo rthe guy but read his early writings in the 1950s and 1960s etc, the guy really did think and without speechwriters!!!and quite intelligent
by the time he was president his powers were waning I think
Clean 32 is right he affected Russia bigtime

There as a book of letters he wrote published a few years ago.

Here is part of the blurb from Amazon: "Whether discussing economic policy with a political foe, dispensing marital advice, or sharing a joke with a pen pal, Reagan comes across as gracious, caring, and inquisitive. Even when responding to blistering criticism, he remained fair and thoughtful. As one would expect, many of the letters are addressed to world leaders, well-known American politicians, pundits, and journalists, and these are certainly interesting for their historical relevance and insights into Reagan's diplomatic style. Among the more fascinating notes, however, are those sent to private citizens, some of which are quite long and detailed. That Reagan would spend the time, as both governor of California and President, to respond to the concerns and inquiries of constituents reveals that he never forgot how he got to his positions of leadership in the first place. He even went so far on occasions to help make business connections for people he had never met in person. He also sent many letters to children. In one, he encouraged a young student to turn off the TV and grab a book instead: "Reading is a magic carpet and you can never be lonely if you learn to enjoy a good book." Taken as a whole, these revealing, well-written, and entertaining letters trace the story of Reagan's life and times as well as any standard biography. They also offer further proof of why he was dubbed "The Great Communicator."

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Originally Posted by JamesH

There as a book of letters he wrote published a few years ago.

Here is part of the blurb from Amazon: "Whether discussing economic policy with a political foe, dispensing marital advice, or sharing a joke with a pen pal, Reagan comes across as gracious, caring, and inquisitive. Even when responding to blistering criticism, he remained fair and thoughtful. As one would expect, many of the letters are addressed to world leaders, well-known American politicians, pundits, and journalists, and these are certainly interesting for their historical relevance and insights into Reagan's diplomatic style. Among the more fascinating notes, however, are those sent to private citizens, some of which are quite long and detailed. That Reagan would spend the time, as both governor of California and President, to respond to the concerns and inquiries of constituents reveals that he never forgot how he got to his positions of leadership in the first place. He even went so far on occasions to help make business connections for people he had never met in person. He also sent many letters to children. In one, he encouraged a young student to turn off the TV and grab a book instead: "Reading is a magic carpet and you can never be lonely if you learn to enjoy a good book." Taken as a whole, these revealing, well-written, and entertaining letters trace the story of Reagan's life and times as well as any standard biography. They also offer further proof of why he was dubbed "The Great Communicator."

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thanks for that. I read Nixons notes but not Reagans.

He was just a guy i would never play poker with. Remeber the Star wars Bluff.

Yes George Lucas was a genius:wasntme:

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Originally Posted by Redback

Yes George Lucas was a genius:wasntme:

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ROTFLMAO :lol2:

and this about Dubya.
BTW, from some numbers i saw a few weeks back the US Govt tripled or quadrupled in size from the Clinton days under Dubya's watch.
So much for the Repubs being the bastion of small Govt....

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush
JAMES A. HAUGHT

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

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Subsequently, ex-President Chirac confirmed the nutty event in a long interview with French journalist Jean-Claude Maurice, who tells the tale in his new book, Si Vous le Répétez, Je Démentirai (If You Repeat it, I Will Deny), released in March by the publisher Plon.

Oddly, mainstream media are ignoring this alarming revelation that Bush may have been half-cracked when he started his Iraq war. My own paper, The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to report it so far. Canada’s Toronto Star recounted the story, calling it a “stranger-than-fiction disclosure … which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held sway within the walls of the White House.” Fortunately, online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling the press void.

The French revelation jibes with other known aspects of Bush’s renowned evangelical certitude. For example, a few months after his phone call to Chirac, Bush attended a 2003 summit in Egypt. The Palestinian foreign minister later said the American president told him he was “on a mission from God” to defeat Iraq. At that time, the White House called this claim “absurd.”

Council for Secular Humanism

"In 2003, Thomas Römer, a theology professor at the University of Lausanne [Switzerland], received a telephone call from the Elysée Palace [in Paris, home of the President of France]. Jacques Chirac’s advisers wanted to know more about Gog and Magog…. two mysterious names that had been spoken by George W. Bush as he was trying to persuade France to go to war at his side in Iraq. In its September [2007] issue, the University of Lausanne (UNIL)’s magazine, Allez savoir, reveals this story [English translation here], which might seem fantastical if, as Jocelyn Rochat, editor-in-chief of Allez savoir, emphasizes, it did not reveal the religious basis of Bush’s politics.

"Bush is said to have declared to Chirac that Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East, and the Biblical Prophecies were being accomplished. It was a few weeks before the intervention in Iraq. The French president, to whom the names of Gog and Magog meant nothing, was stupefied.

"In Allez savoir, Thomas Römer explains that Gog and Magog are two creatures who appear in Genesis, and especially in the two most obscure chapters of the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament: an apocalyptic prophecy of a worldwide army bringing a final battle to Israel.

“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to take advantage of this conflict to wipe out the enemies of his people before a new age begins,” Thomas Römer continues.

"According to him, George W. Bush is not the first to have looked for an incarnation of Gog and Magog on earth. Ronald Reagan believed that the Cold War and the existence of the atomic bomb were making the prophecy of Ezekiel a possible reality.

"If the University of Lausanne is revealing today the explanations given by Thomas Römer to Jacques Chirac, it is because the latter has left office. For Jocelyn Rochat, this little private secret of international politics raises a large question: our lack of religious culture, the lack of knowledge of Scripture, at a time when religious foundations, more often than one might want to believe, are determining political and military decisions. Religiousness is not confined to a private sphere, Rochat concludes. It is a parameter to take into account “or you will understand nothing about the current direction of the world.”

--Article by Jacques Sterchi of La Liberté, a Swiss daily newspaper, in rue89.com, a French blog written off-duty by professional journalists. 17 September 2007.