Ifly2 said:E
They're doing just fine looking stupid all on their own.
Iran deal?/
Ifly2 said:E
They're doing just fine looking stupid all on their own.
delldude said:You overlooked this little tidbit:
"It sent a message not only across America, it sent a message around the world," Walker said. America's allies and foes alike became convinced that Reagan was serious enough to take action and that "we weren't to be messed with," he said.
eolesen said:Yep. Taken out of context, they're trying to make Walker look dumb. Too bad that the full quote makes complete sense, in that Reagan wasn't afraid of the unions (who at the time had real power in the electorate), so why would he be afraid of Gorbie or the USSR, (who was just a few years short of total economic and political collapse)?
777 fixer said:
Yeah I'm sure he had much more reason to fear a union than a country with the ability to unleash nuclear annihilation on us. 🙄 🙄 🙄
Maybe this might dispel some of the John Wayne fantasies people have about Reagan.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/06/07/think-again-ronald-reagan/
delldude said:
Bad link
777 fixer said:
Works for me.
777 fixer said:
Only an ignorant fool would think that the Soviet leadership at the time would give a rats ass what Reagan did with PATCO. Scott Walker must be unaware that the Soviet leadership at the time survived life under Stalin. How did these Communist Party bosses survive under Uncle Joe? By being ruthless SOB's who would not bat an eye about sending their fellow citizens to the gulag. Or putting a bullet in their head.
So if it did register on their radar they probably wondered why he didn't have them all sent to Siberia.
delldude said:
They must have blinked when the wall came down then under that pussified stooge Reagan.
777 fixer said:
Scott Walkers comments on Reagan firing the striking PATCO workers and the Soviet Union just shows his ignorance and the ignorance of any one who would believe it.
delldude said:
Definitely not presidential then...
I see a lot of dickheads pouncing on misspeak.