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In reply to the discussion: Ronald Reagan was angry. It was October 1986, & his veto against the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid... [View all]kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)13. Sometimes, most people get it right. nt
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Ronald Reagan was angry. It was October 1986, & his veto against the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid... [View all]
kpete
Dec 2013
OP
That's not being on the right side. That's being dragged along kicking and screaming.
PeaceNikki
Dec 2013
#74
Possibly. However, the guy did shine a spotlight on Pruneface that no PR can shield.
Octafish
Dec 2013
#56
Sure, but it's the blindness about the fellow at the top that intrigues me.
malthaussen
Dec 2013
#65
So the "Underlings" wielded the VETO and made the speech to the American people opposing sanctions?
yellowcanine
Dec 2013
#94
GOP Mourns Nelson Mandela, Won't Mention Reagan, Cheney, Religious Right Opposed Him
Loup Garou
Dec 2013
#8
"On behalf of the Republican Party, I send our deepest sympathies to the Mandela family..."
pangaia
Dec 2013
#122
No, it really didn't. Read the South Africa chapter in "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein
Hestia
Dec 2013
#108
Do you know that it was the first foreign policy veto overruled in the 20th century
malaise
Dec 2013
#10
Reagan was a disastrous, reactionary President and we are still cleaning up his mess
RFKHumphreyObama
Dec 2013
#11
Don't forget that Reagan's first campaign speech after the 1980 nomination was near Philadelphia, MS
bulloney
Dec 2013
#21
And the public is still naming everything done in concrete after him--pardon me while I retch.
kairos12
Dec 2013
#34
Well MY particular fantasy, if I were in office in DC, would be about adding amendments
calimary
Dec 2013
#81
I would name one thing after him--that reactor at Chernobyl because of the all out destruction
kairos12
Dec 2013
#84
Yes--let's look at the actual history. The National Party was allied with the Nazis. The National
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#52
No--I mean the The National Party. The Nazi sympathizers who were barely kept under control
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#54
I am intrigued at your defense of Reagan's attempts to engage the Nazi-sympathizing National Party.
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#69
You are often intrigued by your own fantasies. Pointing fingers at others while supporting
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#71
Sabrina, I do not know what Uzbeckistan has to do with this thread, but I like
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#75
I don't understand your opposition to support for dictators by others, but silence on
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#77
So...in the thread where I pointed out that Reagan constructively engaged with Nazi sympathizers,
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#78
Reagan constructively engaged every dictator he could find, in South America, the ME
sabrina 1
Dec 2013
#87
Oh, Sabrina, you know I don't answer your questions. Uzbeckstan!!! Benghazi!!!..or wait...
msanthrope
Dec 2013
#88
Or was just the first president to be forced to take official notice of apartheid.
Orsino
Dec 2013
#55
Change, if it were to come at all, would happen incrementally." Now, where have I heard this lately?
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#72
Ted Cruz's Facebook page is filled with the most hateful, despicable comments I've read in a while
catbyte
Dec 2013
#80
The real history of racist Reagan and shows that by terrorist, Cheney means people
suffragette
Dec 2013
#118