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me b zola

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115. "Change, if it were to come at all, would happen incrementally. "
Sat Dec 7, 2013, 08:54 AM
Dec 2013

Yeah, thought I heard that before...

K&R so we don't forget and Skidmore Dec 2013 #1
A POS like Cheney is an evil Racist with a damaged mind warrant46 Dec 2013 #24
The history of Reagan as an angry, right-wing asshole. hatrack Dec 2013 #105
for fuck's sake jollyreaper2112 Dec 2013 #2
No. eom DonViejo Dec 2013 #3
Eventually, like 10 or 20 years after everyone else is on board. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2013 #5
That's not being on the right side. That's being dragged along kicking and screaming. PeaceNikki Dec 2013 #74
Only when they're trying to steal if for themselves. nm Cha Dec 2013 #97
They have not. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #12
Pretty much weissmam Dec 2013 #33
LOL Very good. cntrygrl Dec 2013 #89
Hence why this guy called Abe Lincoln PatrynXX Dec 2013 #123
Lincoln would've been teabagged right of today's GOP 47of74 Dec 2013 #125
not to my knowledge. barbtries Dec 2013 #44
At least a few of them have been, as this story shows. Orsino Dec 2013 #53
Explains a lot. Octafish Dec 2013 #4
They have not changed one bit. Enthusiast Dec 2013 #14
not really lapfog_1 Dec 2013 #67
And just to remind people that Ed Meese is still around... JHB Dec 2013 #20
Twenty years earlier, Meese led the crackdown on the Free Speech Movement starroute Dec 2013 #32
It's how the Actor got to play Governor Octafish Dec 2013 #57
typical RW behavior heaven05 Dec 2013 #95
And a reminder that the "Homeland" security nonsense DrDebug Dec 2013 #50
Bell appears, however, to be trying to exonerate Reagan. malthaussen Dec 2013 #49
Possibly. However, the guy did shine a spotlight on Pruneface that no PR can shield. Octafish Dec 2013 #56
Think of Meese as Reagan's Cheney... JHB Dec 2013 #63
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
k&R disgusting Borchkins Dec 2013 #6
This was in the Butler iandhr Dec 2013 #7
thanks, landhr.. So looking forward to seeing that! nm Cha Dec 2013 #98
Sorry iandhr Dec 2013 #99
No, I'm sorry.. I don't see movies in Cha Dec 2013 #101
GOP Mourns Nelson Mandela, Won't Mention Reagan, Cheney, Religious Right Opposed Him Loup Garou Dec 2013 #8
Dixicrats turned Repub Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond yellowcanine Dec 2013 #93
When racism was no longer acceptable in the Democratic Party Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2013 #112
"On behalf of the Republican Party, I send our deepest sympathies to the Mandela family..." pangaia Dec 2013 #122
This one few times in history... iandhr Dec 2013 #9
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
The funny thing jollyreaper2112 Dec 2013 #16
We have actually lost ground Cosmocat Dec 2013 #116
Sometimes, most people get it right. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2013 #13
A bright moment in time when conscience over rode businss interests. marble falls Dec 2013 #15
He was a racist. rustbeltrefugee Dec 2013 #17
welcome to DU LittleGirl Dec 2013 #19
Don't forget that Reagan's first campaign speech after the 1980 nomination was near Philadelphia, MS bulloney Dec 2013 #21
and at that speech he played up the states rights dog whistle fishwax Dec 2013 #86
Welcome to DU, rustbeltrefugee! calimary Dec 2013 #26
Very well put The Blue Flower Dec 2013 #66
Spot on analysis of the Reagan years..... llmart Dec 2013 #92
What a relief mkell33 Dec 2013 #106
Welcome to DU, mkell33! calimary Dec 2013 #119
Welcome to DU wryter2000 Dec 2013 #41
Reagan opposed the Rumford Act, which banned discrimination in housing in CA. muntrv Dec 2013 #107
K & R for history! Thank you. mountain grammy Dec 2013 #18
This gives me TREMENDOUS satisfaction. SWEET as hell to read and savor! calimary Dec 2013 #22
And the public is still naming everything done in concrete after him--pardon me while I retch. kairos12 Dec 2013 #34
Pedantry alert: You "retch;" Reagan is a "wretch." That is all. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2013 #70
Thanks for the correction. kairos12 Dec 2013 #82
The Wretch that makes you Retch. nm Cha Dec 2013 #100
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
That would be fitting. calimary Dec 2013 #85
And remember...the SA government were Nazi allies. Unrepentant ones. nt msanthrope Dec 2013 #23
South Africa was a member of the British Commonwealth during WW2 LanternWaste Dec 2013 #45
Yes--let's look at the actual history. The National Party was allied with the Nazis. The National msanthrope Dec 2013 #52
Vocal support is quite different than an Alliance. LanternWaste Dec 2013 #59
Are we forgetting the Greyshirts? The SS Stuttgart? The Broederbond? msanthrope Dec 2013 #60
You mean Hertzog and company? They didn't last long. malthaussen Dec 2013 #47
No--I mean the The National Party. The Nazi sympathizers who were barely kept under control msanthrope Dec 2013 #54
Yes, a of Old Nazis ended up right here in the US among other places. sabrina 1 Dec 2013 #68
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
No moral compass. moondust Dec 2013 #25
Ronald the Racist Reagan saynotoplutocrats Dec 2013 #27
Thanks for reminding us of that history - very important - northoftheborder Dec 2013 #28
Anyone who voted with Reagan still in office? LynnTTT Dec 2013 #29
Of those serving in the Senate at the time and now onenote Dec 2013 #58
If I could lower my opinion libodem Dec 2013 #30
Well, just remember what Hugo Chavez said - calimary Dec 2013 #31
It's why he is so afraid of death libodem Dec 2013 #43
Don't ever forget.... freebrew Dec 2013 #39
So true libodem Dec 2013 #42
Saint Ronald was a sack of shit upi402 Dec 2013 #35
Ronald Wilson Reagan truly was an evil POS Stainless Dec 2013 #36
Or was just the first president to be forced to take official notice of apartheid. Orsino Dec 2013 #55
Carter imposed military sanctions on South Africa blogslut Dec 2013 #79
sorry ... wrong spot. nt. polly7 Dec 2013 #37
what can i say about Ronnie? rustbeltvoice Dec 2013 #38
The most overrated POTUS ever. nt tblue Dec 2013 #40
Whoa Mitch McConnell's quote at the end is great Johonny Dec 2013 #46
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2013 #48
Nice story. Octafish Dec 2013 #64
Raygun, JimboBillyBubbaBob Dec 2013 #51
These are words to remember....they are a window into his soul young_at_heart Dec 2013 #61
Wow cilla4progress Dec 2013 #62
Change, if it were to come at all, would happen incrementally." Now, where have I heard this lately? Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #72
They are always on the wrong side of history Marrah_G Dec 2013 #73
Reagan laid a wreath on Nazi graves at Bitburg. Starry Messenger Dec 2013 #76
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder obama2terms Dec 2013 #111
Ted Cruz's Facebook page is filled with the most hateful, despicable comments I've read in a while catbyte Dec 2013 #80
Here's one to take y'all back to the day ... brett_jv Dec 2013 #83
love that album reddread Dec 2013 #102
wow, that was awful. woolldog Dec 2013 #117
I doubt many of these hate filled right-wing assholes santamargarita Dec 2013 #90
Yeah well some of us were pretty pissed also. yellowcanine Dec 2013 #91
Wow! Good on America.. I didn't know it had been Cha Dec 2013 #96
Nothing but a crap actor Mosaic Dec 2013 #103
thank you--good read k&r. BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2013 #104
I wasn't aware of this. Reagan was a sicker man than I thought., nt Incitatus Dec 2013 #109
And on an unfortunate side note RFKHumphreyObama Dec 2013 #110
He was a hateful, stupid man Vattel Dec 2013 #113
I think one of those who voted to override was Mitch McConnell. AuntFester Dec 2013 #114
"Change, if it were to come at all, would happen incrementally. " me b zola Dec 2013 #115
The real history of racist Reagan and shows that by terrorist, Cheney means people suffragette Dec 2013 #118
Reagan was wrong on just about everything. Old and In the Way Dec 2013 #120
And these are the people "centrists" think we should play nice with. 99Forever Dec 2013 #121
Reagan was a racist asshole and an evil man that loved to watch people suffer. Rex Dec 2013 #124
If there ever was a guy more appropriately named............. Beacool Dec 2013 #126
James Baker is trying to spin this story and is not succeeding Gothmog Dec 2013 #127
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