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CCCs


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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:50 am    Post subject: Farewell Ronald Reagan  
The world lost a great man today, perhaps one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen. True leadership is marked by the ability to create a vision that all can understand while having the wherewithall to see that vision become a reality. Reagan was just such a man. We may never see another like him. Goodbye Dutch. Thank you for your great service.
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 11:07 am    Post subject:  
I too, would like to express my sadness and extend my sympathy to the Reagan family.

The world is a much better, much different and much safer place today because of Ronald Reagan. Regardless of what a person thought of his politics, his disarming personality, wit, and personal charm, won you over. His ability to rise above Washington's petty politics and speak directly to Mr. and Mrs. Middle America was second to none.

We all knew this day was coming but it didn't make in any easier. A great man has passed.

Footsoldier
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kanaka


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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Farewell Ronald Reagan  
CCCs wrote:
perhaps one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen


I really wouldn't take it that far. He was a very funny man and that is precisely why he was so very well liked. Even though he made plenty a wrong decision, I am not in the habit of speaking ill of the dead. Personally, I liked the man very much, not all of his policies, but the man himself. He was very easy to identify with.

RIP
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sleK
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 10:06 pm    Post subject:  
Oddly enough my interest in US politics started when I watched his inauguration ceremony on television. Although I was only 8 years old at the time, the ceremony instilled in me the integrity of the US presidency in a manner since unmatched.
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:40 am    Post subject:  
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CCCs wrote:
perhaps one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen


I really wouldn't take it that far. He was a very funny man and that is precisely why he was so very well liked. Even though he made plenty a wrong decision


http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110005181

I beg to differ.....and so does much of the world.

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Few like to recall the feelings of resignation or even despair that many in the West felt in the 1970s as countries from Angola to Nicaragua became Soviet proxies. Mrs. Thatcher says that the West was "slowly but surely losing" the Cold War, and she eagerly embraced Reagan's strategy to win it by becoming "his principal cheerleader" in NATO.
That strategy rested on six pillars: support internal disruption in Soviet satellites, especially Poland; dry up sources of hard currency; overload the Soviet economy with a technology-based arms race; slow the flow of Western technology to Moscow; raise the cost of the wars it was fighting; and demoralize the Soviets by generating pressure for change


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After Reagan's death on Saturday, Sen. Ted Kennedy graciously saluted him as "the president who won the Cold War." Historians know the reality is more complicated, but they will no doubt remark on the world's extraordinary good fortune that he, Pope John Paul II and Mrs. Thatcher were able to work as a team for a full eight years.
Joseph Stalin once dismissed the Vatican's influence by asking, "How many divisions does the pope have?" In the end, that didn't matter. The pope and two stalwart Western leaders helped topple the entire Soviet empire without moving a single division across a border. As Reagan himself said in his 1989 Farewell Address. "Not bad, not bad at all."

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kanaka


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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:49 pm    Post subject:  
My mistake this time. I had read CCC's first post as "the greatest leader this world has ever seen", instead of "one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen". The latter needs no defense. Smile
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:11 am    Post subject:  
Some funny line from The Gipper


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Gems and faux pas


A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not
Speech about Iran Contra, 1987


A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist
1988


Peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever
Inaugural address, 1981


I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience
ABC interview, March 1986


Politics I supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first
March 1978


Recession is when your neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his
1980 campaign remark


The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance
1985


My fellow Americans: I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes
Comment while testing a microphone, 1984


It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
On the reputed lightness of his working day, 1987


How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin
1987


Honey, I forgot to duck To his wife Nancy after John Hinckley's assassination attempt in 1981



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sleK
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:22 am    Post subject:  
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Honey, I forgot to duck To his wife Nancy after John Hinckley's assassination attempt in 1981


Ya know, there's a whole lot of stuff I'd do for Jodie Foster but assassinating the prez' ain't one of 'em.



nummies Embarassed
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:29 am    Post subject:  
According to rumors, sleK my boy, she is not your type.....if you get my meaning........but still is nice to look at!
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sleK
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:32 am    Post subject:  
Ahh! It breaks my heart to hear that! Wink
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:00 am    Post subject:  
Well dont feel too bad........its not personal. You can still dream!
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:26 am    Post subject:  
" I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the--of the individual, that there is a sacredness to individual rights. And I would like to say to all of the young people as they pursue their way . . . I think you should weigh everything that is proposed to you, everything in the line of government and law and economic theory, everything of that kind and weigh it on this one scale--that it should at all times not offer you some kind of sanctuary or security in exchange for your right to fly as high and as far as your own strength and ability will take you as an individual, with no ceiling put on that effort. Plenty of room for a floor underneath so that no one in this world should live in degradation, beneath that floor, but you reserve the right for yourself to be free."
-President Ronald Reagan, May 15, 1967
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sleK
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Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 2:27 am    Post subject:  
"Actions speak louder than words." - Anonymous Wink
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denimandlace_69


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:10 am    Post subject:  
sleK wrote:

Ya know, there's a whole lot of stuff I'd do for Jodie Foster but assassinating the prez' ain't one of 'em.



nummies Embarassed

I understand the "Jodie Foster thing," but "nummies" seems a little disrespectful. Naughty!
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sleK
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:27 am    Post subject:  
It's a term of endearment, really.
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:32 am    Post subject:  
sleK wrote:
It's a term of endearment, really.


Probably not is this content. I contributed to the disrepect by my following comments. Bringing up the acts of a pervert who tried to murder the President of my county at the time of his death was not in the best of taste. The same as to what I said in response.
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sleK
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:42 am    Post subject:  
You're right. Instead of "nummies", It should have read :drool:
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:43 am    Post subject:  
sleK wrote:
You're right. Instead of "nummies", It should have read :drool:


That was a bit beneath you IMO.
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sleK
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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:53 am    Post subject:  
Rolling Eyes

Yes, I should be ashamed of myself for finding the woman attractive and stating such in playful terms.

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GoodFella


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:59 am    Post subject:  
You know, I found the Jodie Foster pic and coment sorta funny.
Oh well, my spin. ~GoodFella
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Bodyguard


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Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 5:05 am    Post subject:  
sleK wrote:
Rolling Eyes

Yes, I should be ashamed of myself for finding the woman attractive and stating such in playful terms.

PC++


Ya know I did not look at it in that light.........I hate that PC crap........I will remember that as I hope you will.
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Midwest


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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:31 am    Post subject:  
A little crude isn't it? Kind of a low blow.
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denimandlace_69


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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:47 am    Post subject:  
sleK wrote:
You're right. Instead of "nummies", It should have read :drool:

You are entitled to feel any way you want toward Jodie Foster. However, there is a time and a place. This thread was about the death of a former president, and I just feel that the pic of Jodie Foster was more than enough. Adding "nummies" at the bottom of the post was uncalled for and disrespectful to the thread. :drool: would not have been any better.
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