The Reagan Years - Firing Line - January 27, 1980
(William F. Buckley - so excited over the thought of a Reagan White House he called him "Mister President" a year before the election)
Early on in his campaign, then-candidate Reagan made an appearance on the Firing Line program, hosted by William F.Buckley on January 27, 1980. So taken back by the thought of a Reagan White House, Buckley kept referring to Reagan as "Mister President", asking questions that almost seemed like a coaching session for what would be the grueling campaign for an election that would take place some eleven months later.
Buckley fawned reverential, asking the most maleable of soft-ball questions, as if he didn't want to know if there were any chinks in the Reagan armor, didn't want the audience to feel there was any other candidate even worth mentioning - acting as though the Carter Presidency was already over - it was merely a waiting game until inauguration.
During the one hour session, Reagan gets into domestic policy with a couple of samples:
Reagan on Domestic Energy: “ Vast areas, known to contain minerals and possibly such sources as oil and natural gas are rapidly being taken over by the Federal government. They’re formerly federal lands but they’re now being withdrawn from any multiple use, and restricted to . . .as wilderness areas where the only people that can possibly use those public lands is that small segment of the public who maybe has the energy and the time to go backpacking and hike up to a hill and say ‘isn’t that beautiful’ but none of the rest of us will ever get to see it because they won’t allow you to put a road in.”
Reagan on Education: “I would like to dissolve the 10 billion dollar National Department of Education created by President Carter, and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I could make a case in the decline of public education when federal aid became federal interference.”
He also makes no bones about his eagerness to do away with regulations citing, among others, the EPA as an evil agency, bent on destroying free enterprise.
All in all, it's a fascinating glimpse into the Candidate Reagan, with a certain amount of goodnatured bumbling tossed in for good measure.
And Buckley loved every syllable of it.
FAH.
but people freaked out at having prisioners overseas, high oil prices being set by OPEC and "burn Carter at the stake" rethugs.
Ronny Ray Gun sure had a better plan, eh?
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Reagan was terrible for this country and set it back many years.
of the beginning of the END.
Exactly what I was going to post when I saw the title and hadn't even opened the thread ;)
And the neoconservative movement was born. Reagan was a pox.
You took the post right off of my keypad.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
When a Repub mentions Ronny I get all happy because...
He supported death squads
He ran on balancing the budget but never presented Congress with a balanced budget
He cut deals with terrorists
He dealt drugs and gave the money to terrorists
He had the personal moral courage to send our troops to the resort island of Grenada
He hamstrung Unions
GHWB called his economic policy "voodoo economics" before he swore by them
We are still paying for his Defense spending
He gave WMDs to Saddam Huessein
He made me quit the Republican Party!
He cut and run when our troops were attacked in Lebanon! Can you imagine any Democratic President doing that and not getting attacked like... well, like Democratic Presidents are attacked anyway?
Ray-gun taught the terrorists that America could be defeated...with a single car bomb.
Thom Hartmann: Must see! The TRUE story of the Boston Tea Party
Look at what these Republinazi piles of sh*t have done to the United States -- and to the rest of the world. Their "Contract On America" was a theofascist act of treason which the Christofascists eventually inflicted upon us.
Nazi fascism right here in the United States.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyQUm0A5QGg
That is hilarious, libNmod!
That's the good news!
Why are you plastering their likenesses and their words all across my computer screen?
They were both unabashed fascist shit-guzzlers for their whole careers.
Now they're dead.
Dead.
These two wastes of skin were both crooks and liars, among a litany of other moral and human shortcomings. Thus, it should not be a surprise to see an article about these two assholes in this site...
Ah...the good ol' days!
Remember when Republicans used to promote tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation of everything in sight, and drill baby drill?
Oh wait, that was this morning!
Ah the good ole days is right. Soaring deficits, runaway military industrial complex spending, tax cutting for the rich, AIDSgate, union busting, Iran contra, and St. Ronnie pushing us n the brink of mutual nuclear annihilation with the Soviet before their economy crashed effective ending the cold war (of course the wingnuts want to give St. Ronnie the credit for the latter)
some con questions why I think St. Ronnie was one of our worst presidents, I always tell them that he was every bit as good a president as he was an actor.
He's DEAD!! DEAD DEAD DEAD! And I'm GLAD GLAD GLAD! That wrinkled up old bastard lived as long as he did...simply to spite ME!
He's DEAD! Worm food! Good riddance.
That frog faced old fuck is the reason why the country is in the mess it is in today.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
i agree. but, its not frog faced, its lizard faced. see below.
Gore Vidal was a guest on the Johnny Carson show and the lady from the San Diego Zoo brought in some baby tigers and some reptiles. Vidal remarked that he "would have brought his lizard, but he was busy hosting Firing Line"
I could see Gore Vidal saying that...thanks.
Oh, and the day Raygoon got elected, almost to the exact minute, I swear......a dark pall casts its shadow on our country, then Lennon got shot the next month. How I loathed that man, and Buckley was the most pompous ass to ever live, bar none.
As a joke for my mother's birthday years ago, my brother got her a subscription to the National Review......she was not amused, and insisted he cancel it, let the mailman really think she was a republicon. Taught me everything she knew about politics, and the Democratic Convention was our Super Bowl...beer and all....cept twas only every four. The year Anne Richards delivered the keynote speech, we went wild. Where was George, we kept tht up for weeks after......momma, you rocked, and I'm sure you still do.
How many more years will the Right continue to worship this sad man?
along with Woodrow Wilson. A couple of racists. Wilson admired the Klu Klux Klan and jailed what would be the equivalent of ultra-liberals. Reagan told anecdotes about welfare queens driving up to pick up their checks in brand-new Cadillacs.
Reagan was the most fabricated president of the 20th century. If you listen to the repugs go on and on about him they don't know a single fact of what his presidency really was about and they just make shit up that makes him sound good like being a Tax Cutter - um except he raised taxes.
He was a compassionate conservative - um except he closed down drug rehab centers and government run mental health facilities and turned the people to the streets creating the a homeless epidemic that is still going on!
This list goes on and on but I don't want to take up 5 yards of webpage listing 'em all.
Let me just say I cannot stand reagan, I didn't like him in the 80's and I can't stand what he did to our country!
The worst president in US history besides Dubya. Awful. A dolt with a cruel attitude towards poor people. It amazes me that he's revered by anyone.
Yeah Dubya was bad, but we never even would have had Dubya if it wasn't for the election of Ronald Reagan. He will always be one of the worst presidents we have ever had...even Dubya had a tough time beeting Ronny, and he was really trying.
So to the man who made sure that we never saw the world Jimmy Carter would have helped create, Thanks for nothing you Republican Asshole!
oh right...I almost forgot that Ronald is dead. - You DEAD Repbulican Asshole!
Harry S. Truman...was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As the 34th vice president, he succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died less than three months after he began his fourth term."Truman replaced vice president Henry A. Wallace as Roosevelt's running mate in 1944."
President Truman signed the first National Prayer Day proclamation... President Reagan made it a permanent occasion! Under Bush, the day was a political event.
Henry A. Wallace, In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. --Henry A. Wallace
[Henry A Wallace had missed being the 33rd President of the United States by just 82 days.]
See Reagan signed a permanent Prayer Day proclamation. Started by Truman.
See; Sharlet said that Stupak’s denial of any knowledge of The Family or its activities is false. “When I lived with The Family at Ivanwald, a house for younger men being groomed for leadership, I was told that Stupak was a regular visitor to the Cedars,” Sharlet said. The Cedars is yet another compound owned by The Family, one that hosts weekly prayer events led by former Reagan-era Attorney General Ed Meese.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
irre-god-less of our Constitution and Article 6 - re-god-ing... Debts, Supremacy, [Oaths]
The fascist start to "act up"... See; THIS TITLE WAS ENACTED BY ACT JUNE 25, 1948 Altering the Constitution's article VI(sixth amendment) by insidiously and verbosely including "So help me God" in it's composition.
See; "I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States... add to that the new stipulation... "So help me God."
It was unconstitutional to initiate, on JUNE 25, 1948, just as it is an unconstitutional prerequisite today! I've not inquired as to the fact the 1948 act... was Presidentially authorized but none the the less it reminds me of another insidious action we can see happening today, in the following actions...
"the House and the Senate passed resolutions directing the Architect of the Capitol to engrave "In God We Trust" and the Pledge of Allegiance in prominent places in the Capitol Visitor Center"
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, claimed that without the engravings of "In God We Trust" and the Pledge of Allegiance, the Visitor Center would reflect an effort "to scrub references to America's Christian heritage" and to eradicate "the role of Christianity in America."
The Senate approved this resolution on July 6, 2009 as part of an express appropriation bill, while the House of Representatives passed an identical resolution, H. Con. Res. 131, on July 9, 2009.
"In God We Trust," in fact, has not been a United States motto during most of this country's history; America's original motto was purely secular, i.e., "E Pluribus Unum" ("from many come one"), which motto was chosen by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.
See; [H. Con. Res. 131:] "Directing the Architect of the Capitol to engrave the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and the National Motto of "In God We Trust" in the Capitol Visitor Center."
PS. This resolution passed in both chambers and now takes effect. It does not require the signature of the President and does not have the force of law. [Last Updated: Jul 12, 2009 6:20PM] THOSE SNEAKY FASCIST FUCKS!
It's a secular nation and the more we allow them to mark their territory... like a
goddog pissing on a fire hydrant, we'll have to fight to get it back, unless that is, you would like to live under folk-law(s).?[ http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill... ]
Check out a few more of this fascist's (Dan Lungren's) bills'.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." --Sinclair Lewis, 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here".
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Ah yes , Ronald Reagan , Republican God and the beginning of the end of this country .
William Buckley should always be presented as "white supremacist William Buckley." After all, he admitted it:
"Yes — the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is a fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists." – William F. Buckley, 1957
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