Ted Rall for February 14, 2011

Thank you, Ted.

One of the worst, yet most admired presidents ever. Check out the record of felonies committed by Reagan Administration employees. Start at the top.

The voter is a notoriously short sighted animal. He quickly forgets anything he does not personally witness and, due to the unique location of his head, rarely sees anything. The best example of this is the tendency of voters to blame the Great Deperssion on Herbert Hoover while heaping admiration on his immediate predecessor, Calvin Coolidge.

Who admires Calvin Coolidge, Walrus?

Historians now evaluate Ronald Reagan’s presidency as mediocre. Reagan accomplished some of what he wanted to do, but he bloated the government and the national debt while cutting back on social services, leaving us with many of today’s social problems: gun violence, homelessness, poor public education, children’s hunger, and millions lacking health care.

Ronald Reagan admired Coolidge, actually, Brian – he named him as his favorite president, adopted many of his positions (e.g., his belief that removing important constraints on the financial industry was a good thing), and napped every day just like him.

^I wonder if he admired Harding and Hoover as well.

Warcrime, Ronald Reagan certainly resembled Warren G. Harding in both intelligence and in presiding over an administration of criminal activity.

Thanks, Magus, for the reminder, but his admiration of Coolidge shows that Reagan was no student of history.

jm as usual you distort everything. If liberals are obsessed with W it is as a negative image, not, as the topic is, positive images.

Brian - oh, I don’t disagree with you. Coolidge got out of town before the crash he helped create. Reagan wasn’t that lucky, but managed to have another bounce before he left.

I’m surprised by the lack of response from the proReagan crowd. It thought it would be a larger number of people.

the fiost American President to get on his knees before a foreign power, the QUEEN, who knighted him; SIR reagan, and LADY bush. As tories took over the Republican party, and did the bidding of the royals oil companies…see IRAQ, attack all Republican FORMS of Government, protect the Kingdoms and Queendoms with American capital and blood.

the “tail” wagging the dog has NOT stopped since, add the ‘sell-off” of U.S. assets at bankruptcy prices…Yes, they have done a fine job for the Queen(&BP) and HER assets. As the “tail” she DEMANDED ‘cuts cuts cuts” from her jewel encrusted carriage..and the gop “dogs” jumped up and fell right in line. FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT to get on his knees b4 the QUEEN, hell even FDR would not let them IN th e white house-kept them on the lawn.

“If Conservatives are obsessed with Reagan, then liberals are obsessed with Bush.”

That makes no sense. If anything, the context of your sentence should be: “If Conservatives are obsessed with Clinton, then Liberals are obsessed with Bush.” There isn’t really a president that Liberals fawn over. Clinton may have been a Democrat who managed the center and produced a surplus, but he also signed DOMA and DADT into law.

Wasn’t there some “Family Values” Congresswoman who said “Praise Ronald Reagan” forgetting that he was a Divorcee?

As a conservative I find the drivel on this page unworthy of a response. Oops

AT LEAST HE NOT WRITING ABOUT EGYPT!!

corcho99 shouted, wetting himself with relief, 41 minutes ago “AT LEAST HE NOT WRITING ABOUT EGYPT!!”

Sorry to burst your bubble mate, Rall published one on the 9th. And on the 7th. and on the 4th…

My, churchill, seems that liberals are the only ones being splenetic today…

^I thought it was the viagra.

100th anniversary of his 100th birthday would be 200 years; either way, he’s still dead.