President Ronald Reagan 100 today

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If he had lived it would have been his 100th birthday today. In London we have unveiled a statue of him in his honour and memory. I really liked him, a strong leader of vision. RIP Mr President.

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I think that it is the 'septics' that bunged up his statute ... at the U.S Embassy.

I don't remember much about him apart from the Spitting Image puppet with Maggie

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If he had lived it would have been his 100th birthday today. In London we have unveiled a statue of him in his honour and memory. I really liked him, a strong leader of vision. RIP Mr President.

He did "play" a good President of the USA didn't he.. well at least for the first year or so till he was shot.. after that... not so much. His economics policies as practiced in his admionistration and his succussors who believe with their every fiber that VOO DOO Economics works is showing exactly
how well it works now after they have crippled the wests economies with massive debt.

I hope that Satan is using his nice big flaming prickly cock on him every day.

{and yes I did vote for him once.... but just once.... I was not going to be fooled by the lies he made to the American people in his first run again.. so yes he fooled me once.... but his followers have been fooled ever since... as George the Second laughed about. These stupid fuckers can do nothing but be fooled over and over and over}

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Even though I did like him as President (save for his economic policies), he was actually born on Feb.6.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ronaldreagan

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If he had lived it would have been his 100th birthday today. In London we have unveiled a statue of him in his honour and memory. I really liked him, a strong leader of vision. RIP Mr President.

Calvin Coolidge is the only US President born on the Fourth of July.

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President Ronald Reagan 100 today

...and his mind is just as sharp today as it ever was.

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President Ronald Reagan 100 today

...and his mind is just as sharp today as it ever was.

LOL

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Here in SoCal, Vail Lake Camping Resort is having a weekend long festival celebrating him. I liked him! At least he wasn't screwing interns in the Oval Office and he didn't need a teleprompter to make a coherent speech.

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Here in SoCal, Vail Lake Camping Resort is having a weekend long festival celebrating him. I liked him! At least he wasn't screwing interns in the Oval Office and he didn't need a teleprompter to make a coherent speech.

Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

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At least he wasn't screwing interns in the Oval Office

He was in his 70s and never fully recovered from being shot. His screwing days were already behind him.
He was no sexual saint. He was screwing the then-Nancy Davis while still married to Jane Wyman.

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and he didn't need a teleprompter to make a coherent speech.

Don't be naive. He was superb at delivering a prepared speech. As an actor, he was trained in the acquired skill of memorizing lines. But mostly, he read from a prepared text. On the RARE occasions when he had no choice but to speak extemporaneously on a substantive matter, he had such a pitiful fund of actual knowledge that he usually was intellectually not up to the task.

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So he wasn't the best off the cuff. But he respected the office he held and his presence there commanded respect.

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. We bombing in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos

OMG ... that was a classic.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

Far better actors than Ronny made the same error.

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

According to his son, he knew the mic was on. He also had the Russian Ambassadore sitting 10 ft. away from him.

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he didn't need a teleprompter to make a coherent speech.

Reagan did use a teleprompter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-4848259-503544.html

From the text: Ronald Reagan was the same way. He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.

Also, http://origin-www.congress.org/news/2011/01/11/eisenhower_first_used_teleprompter

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

According to his son, he knew the mic was on. He also had the Russian Ambassadore sitting 10 ft. away from him.

So which story makes you more comfortable; him being an accidental nitwit or an intentional one?

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

According to his son, he knew the mic was on. He also had the Russian Ambassadore sitting 10 ft. away from him.

So which story makes you more comfortable; him being an accidental nitwit or an intentional one?

I was thinking of asking you the same thing but I already know the answer.

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

According to his son, he knew the mic was on. He also had the Russian Ambassadore sitting 10 ft. away from him.

So which story makes you more comfortable; him being an accidental nitwit or an intentional one?

I was thinking of asking you the same thing but I already know the answer.

I actually prefer to think of him as an accidental nitwit, but some people say it was intentional.

Either way, to me the President of the US joking about starting WWIII intentionally seems pretty assholish. Maybe it's funny in a sit-around-the-Camp-David-fire private setting, but in front of random press with microphones? . . . pretty assholish.

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Just make sure he knows the mic is hot.

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Ronald Reagan August 11th 1984.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv13ZnkpWos
OMG ... that was a classic.

Yeah, AND he was a professional actor who made his living with a microphone for decades so really there shouldn't have been any excuse whatsoever for that kind of non-sense.

According to his son, he knew the mic was on. He also had the Russian Ambassadore sitting 10 ft. away from him.

So which story makes you more comfortable; him being an accidental nitwit or an intentional one?

I was thinking of asking you the same thing but I already know the answer.

I actually prefer to think of him as an accidental nitwit, but some people say it was intentional.

I dunno, to me the President of the US joking about starting WWIII intentionally seems pretty assholish.

Saber rattling has been going on for thousands of years. Obviously it still works. The Soviets thought he was just crazy enough to do it. Very good actor.

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One of the worst presidents of all time.

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If he had lived it would have been his 100th birthday today. In London we have unveiled a statue of him in his honour and memory. I really liked him, a strong leader of vision. RIP Mr President.

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No matter which party you are in , you have to admit that Reagan had the people in mind and he demonstrated a respect for the office he held .
He was a man who brought people together unlike our current so-called leader who has his party and the unions in mind...

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>He was a man who brought people together unlike . . .

He was a politician, like Obama. He pandered to his special interests, Obama panders to his. If you really think that he was "different" then you're just as gullible as the people who think that Obama is some kind of savior.