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- Pixelante, on 04/14/2009, -11/+288T-10? Early prototype, then. Explains why a .22 caliber bullet could damage him.
- DangerCollie, on 04/14/2009, -14/+177Behold the great standard bearer of conservatism. A McCarthy snitch. Since there were probably very few actual communist sympathizers, I'd be willing to bet T-10 ratted on a lot of innocent people.
- tynos, on 04/13/2009, -11/+150Reagan's testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee Testimony
October 23, 1947
http://tinyurl.com/c853zn - davewashere, on 04/14/2009, -8/+113If he ratted out 10 million innocents but managed to get one commie, it was a victory in his mind. He was a simpleton, making him the ideal idol for the modern Republican party. True conservatives like Barry Goldwater could have run circles around the likes of Reagan, but always had trouble connecting with a base that was, well, simple.
- SirIanDangerous, on 04/14/2009, -33/+127Hah. The favorite son of the Modern Republican Party was a damn dirty rat. Figures.
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -27/+119lol red scare .. what a small mind
"hey look over there" .. "there's a guy competing with me" ... "he's gotta be a commie" ... "take him away uncle sallami" - einmuslim, on 04/14/2009, -7/+96No different than the "islamist" scare. Each generation has its own villains.
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -9/+87So basically whoever pissed of Ronald Regan, would find themselves on a list, which was followed by illegal wire taping by Hoover and a dog and pony show by McCarthy. What the ***** man? Is this the good old days Republicans want to take us back to?
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -49/+126I always knew Reagan was a weasel, guess that just makes it official.
- tynos, on 04/13/2009, -5/+70Interesting. Form over substance. How intellectually honest of you.
OK, I'll bite. What exactly is the time frame you use to determine a story's value?
And how exactly dos th date of a story affect its quality? - ayeroxor, on 04/14/2009, -6/+61Read a book. Communism sounds great on paper, and anyone with a brain can understand why and how people can get caught up in it. In actual textbook communism, each is only a slave to all the others, and no, I don't think mass-murder is in there either.
I've always thought of communist ideal as living at summer camp. Just imagine: everybody does their part and nobody goes hungry and nobody races with their neighbors for fancier material goods and basically nobody goes without anything as far as each can see. There are certain rewards for going above and beyond, but essentially citizens all have the same access to everything.
While the greatest of the lessor problems with communism is lazy workers and a lack of impetus to strive, the greatest major problem with communism is that it ends up with just a few people holding absolute power, and we all know what happens next. - WhoaABlueCar, on 04/14/2009, -38/+92he was also a dick
- Robjayne, on 04/13/2009, -68/+121Makes him a *****!
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 04/14/2009, -6/+59Replace "communist" with "terrorist" and we haven't really come that far.
- HeDiggMe, on 04/14/2009, -22/+64Snitches get Dementia
- Pyrotic, on 04/14/2009, -7/+44ID 10-T?
- digg4peace, on 04/14/2009, -20/+56For a moment I just had a visualization of Ronny dancing with J. Edgar in a dress to the theme song from Casablanca
- bobbarkerbilly, on 04/14/2009, -5/+39Last I checked, we have the freedom in the U.S. to believe in what we want, whether it's communism or capitalism. The same applies fifty years ago.
- scyphozoa, on 04/14/2009, -11/+44reagan the rat
- kingcam, on 04/14/2009, -15/+47He was probably one of the worst presidents actually.
- GordonClass, on 04/14/2009, -11/+41This is like the Nazi's turning in their neighbors.
- Bhima, on 04/14/2009, -11/+41This is particularly interesting. Clearly the mythology surrounding American presidents is just that... a mythology. The deification of Reagan, the vilification of Carter and Clinton were and are manufactured by the politically motivated conservatives.
That they attempt to the same with the current president, Barack Obama is equally telling. - Nattybumpoe, on 04/14/2009, -4/+34The ironic part about Reagan was that he denied the existence of the black list, while the writer of one of his films (starring him and Nancy) was black listed.
- Decimit, on 04/14/2009, -2/+29I don't understand how Obama can be considered best or worst. He hasn't even been in office a year.
- slantyeyed, on 04/14/2009, -5/+31i wonder who is old enough here to remember the cold war?
- seanstuart, on 04/14/2009, -4/+30/s
- SnowCrashv5, on 04/14/2009, -10/+35More like a murderer and a crook of the highest degree. (People's Park, Iran Contra, the slaughters in Nicaragua, the list is kind of long)
- dOOBiEx213, on 04/14/2009, -1/+26The above comment, which has no factual grounding or insightful commentary, has already been dugg up 0 times.
Reagan was no better president than Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton, and both of the Bush presidents.
How long will it take for my comment to be buried? - dreamofspirals, on 04/14/2009, -3/+27...or the new "socialist" scare.
ignorance breeds ignorance which in turn breeds fear and hate. - secrity, on 04/14/2009, -0/+24Goldwater was a conservative AND a a gay rights activist.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/dail ...
"At 85, after a life in politics spanning five decades (he retired from the Senate in 1987), Mr. Conservative has found himself an unlikely new career: as a gay rights activist. While that's not his sole pursuit – he returned to Capitol Hill yesterday to testify in favor of scenic overflights of the Grand Canyon – in recent years he's championed homosexuals serving in the military and has worked locally to stop businesses in Phoenix from hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. This month he signed on as honorary co-chairman of a drive to pass a federal law preventing job discrimination against homosexuals. The effort, dubbed Americans Against Discrimination, is being spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the influential gay lobbying organization.
"The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay," Goldwater asserts. "You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it." - THETEH, on 04/14/2009, -7/+31You serious, thecoolestguy?
The 1950's are over. Making that sort of blunt statement doesn't really get you anywhere anymore. That's the sort of paranoid mindset that led to so many actors getting their careers ruined just because someone vaguely "suspected" that they had Communist views. Most of the time they DIDN'T have Communist views.
This is America. People have the right to believe whatever they want. No opinion should be "illegal." - inactive, on 04/14/2009, -7/+29Why am I not surprised? Oh, now I remember. Because it's just so typically Republican
- Diggnabbit, on 04/14/2009, -2/+24Wow, for someone who hates to speak ill of the dead, you"re pretty good at it!
- satori3000, on 04/14/2009, -16/+38As bad as this is it's still not as bad as trickle down economics, that was ridiculous.
- seanstuart, on 04/14/2009, -4/+25Damn. I was too late.
- ShyGuy91284, on 04/14/2009, -6/+26I'm glad the McCarthy era is over. Although Lenin Communism was a bit of a bastardization of Marxism, there were some interesting elements to its philosophy. Capitalism is way better than Lenin's Communism, but it's not without its flaws...
- inactive, on 04/13/2009, -36/+56Reagan's lifelong affiliation with Lew Wasserman makes him a double crosser to the American public. Being an FBI informant, even if it was only to destroy Wasserman's political enemies was good thing. I just wish the FBI hadn't stopped there and that J. Edgar Hoover wasn't just a girly-man being blackmailed by these gangsters.
- KirbyMeister, on 04/14/2009, -4/+22He's not my great standard bearer of Conservatism.
(Mine happen to be Barry Goldwater and Ron Paul) - inactive, on 04/14/2009, -7/+24your mom is 8 years old
- satori3000, on 04/14/2009, -7/+24right here, I lived through his evil. He funded death squads by the boat load in South America. He pushed trickle down economics that was so clearly a failure and did more to separate the upper and lower classes than anyone before him. Only GW has been able to increase the gap at a greater rate. He started the war on drugs with no other real strategy than to simply incarcerate that has placed America as the number one jailer in the world- USA-USA-USA! He's credited with ending the cold war, when in reality it was Gorbachev that was the one that ended it. Sure the Soviets were broke, but many Generals wanted to simply go hot and use up the arms, Gorbachev stopped that from happening and held honest and open talks with the west. Reagan was in the right place at the right time on most of the things he's credited with.
- jpop, on 04/14/2009, -1/+18My recollection of the era was that if you admitted to the black list, you were put on it. So it's not surprising that he would deny its existance to stay employed.
- kylere, on 04/14/2009, -26/+41I hate to speak ill of the dead, so I will just say that I am glad he is dead. Only complete scum participated in the red scare, and I wish hell existed for them to burn.
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -16/+31Reagan was a bastard.
- inactive, on 04/14/2009, -1/+16"We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
- maliath, on 04/14/2009, -2/+17In some ways I understand why people think and vote "conservative". But, I have never understood, and will probably never understand why anyone to this day believes Reagan did a fine job as President of the United States. He worked up a massive debt by borrowing money from other countries and lied to the American public about corrupt deals that left tens of thousands of people dead. He was a man of contradiction. He preached conservatism and small government, but used fear to increase spending. He talked about patriotism and evil, but presided over the iran-contra affair. Often people attribute the fall of the Soviet Union to the Reagan presidency, however real defense budget spending by the USSR never increased in the 1980's and the regime collapsed from within.
I won't go so far as to say Ronald Reagan was one of the worst presidents. But, I would hope any rational person would hesitate to say that he is among the "best" presidents the United States has ever had. - Dumbledorito, on 04/14/2009, -4/+19Communism and Libertarianism have a lot in common: Both philosophies are based on the notion that somehow the populace will overcome things like greed and corruption all on their own to build a better society, and that nobody will jump in and take over because some invisible force of political voodoo will keep the power-hungry from manipulating the people.
This isn't to say either philosophy hasn't got something to say (i.e. the value of work, the positive effects of competition, etc.) but they both assume they're the gateway to utopia, which is usually where the person composing the thesis forgets what most people are actually like. - ZenMojo, on 04/14/2009, -12/+26That. Rat. *****.
- LAmandingo, on 04/14/2009, -20/+34No wonder ***** heads like Rush Blowhard and the other ditto heads love Regan so much. He truly was the king the worthless selfserving, spinless, racist *****. Now you can add SNITCH to the mix.
- tamman2000, on 04/14/2009, -2/+16And so what if people sympathized with commies? I mean seriously, weren't we supposed to have freedom in this country? How can you claim to have freedom when you aren't allowed to support an alternative economic structure?
Even if the people he turned in did want a communist government in the US, what Reagan did was completely unamerican. - satori3000, on 04/14/2009, -9/+22Gorbachev ended the cold war, not Reagan.
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