on 10 qualities of presidential leadership: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision, pursued equal justice for all, and performance within the context of his times.
Trump had it tough with opposition from the GOP itself just a Reagan did since the GOP Establishment, learning from blocking Reagan tried fast-tracked opposition, an over-funded "favorite son" who had no chance and likewise double-funded Jeb (Jib Jab) Bush and his "Common Core - warts and all. They even held an island plot/seminar in a desperation situation to lose in order to keep Trump from winning. Still, the voters KNEW a winner when they saw one and despite early-closing of polls to favor Hillary Rodham Clinton, Trump only lost the popular vote by 2-3 million,winning with a huge Electoral College 300 plus.
Something called the 2018 Presidents and Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey was done online via Qualtronics between December 22, 2017 and January 16, 2018. The "partakers" or respondents were present and recent members of the Presidents and Executive Politics Section or Department of the American Political Science Association (A.P.S.A.). This "polysci" organization of social science experts in presidential politics is considered the "best" judges despite their "swamp creature production propensity since they are for all practical purposes - "NEVER-TRUMP-ers.. Of 320 respondents invited to participate, More than likely, $1 cash was sent with each survey which renders it a "legal" deal and 170 usable survey responses were received which is a 53.1% response rate. As academia is considered "infested" with liberal professors, some 57% Democrats were in the survey with 17% Republicans and 27% who declared themselves "independents" and 3% apparently left this portion blank for "lack of tenure" - to "be safe" - "just in case." The survey time allowed a bit more than a year of evaluation for President Trump which was more than enough time to "blow their socks off" with his efficiency rating even though Republicans were outnumbered about 3 to one - no one really expects someone who reminds people of Aerosmith's "Jaded" to evaluate all that fairly so the year of "POSITIVE AWESOMENESS" did not skew the survey for Trump.
The aformentioned survey greatly influenced this blog but personal observation of awesomeness definitely served to place #1 where he is. Certainly another POTUS had the stamina to stump for his party before mid-term elections, but many more just settled into the "Easy Chair" rested on their laurels and "let the chips fall". NOT President Trump. Faced with "playing favorites" or "playing it safe" with sure fire winners...Trump has "gone the extra mile"and not on golf outings and Martha's Vineyard vacations. As blogging this on Nov 6, election eve...the outcomes will no doubt favor this man who has put it all on the line...and scored the best that he knows how. As they say in sports,"You can't win 'em all!" That does not dissuade Trump from TRYING TO WIN THEM ALL! In so doing, he has covered all the (major) bases. That is ALL a WINNER can do.
There Are RINOs but Never DINOs. The RINO is an interesting political phenomenon and relatively new. It stands for Republican in Name Only, meaning that although the office-holder is a registered Republican, his voting record and public statements are too often aligned with liberal causes. [...] This kind of politician seems to exist only on the Republican side of the fence. Only Republicans have to scramble to make sure all their members are on board for crucial congressional votes. When a Senate vote looms on a controversial measure, only Republicans have to be certain that all their members are on the same page. John McCain was famous for deviating from Republican orthodoxy, earning him the positive-intentioned nickname from the liberal mainstream media of "Maverick of the Senate." There are many Republican politicians who are famous for their voting or public speaking "undependability," such as Lisa (Murky) Murkowski (Alaska), Jeff (Flakey) Flake (Ariz.), Rand (Randy) Paul (Ky.), Lindsey (Gramnasty) Graham (S.C.), and Susan (Demlover)Collins (Maine), [Graham and Collins seem to have "WISED-UP" considerably since both actually voted WITH her party on the Supreme Court justices to the VAST relief of MILLIONS] and, before her, Olympia (Gonzo-'cus-I-was-A-no-good-Demlover) Snowe (Maine)(TGSG - since "SNOWY voted "PUP-LIKE" too many times and got herself eliminated. She managed to IRK so many millions that her name will FOREVER be tainted with infamy which is probably what she wanted in the first place. Some people lack the willpower to be GREAT so choose the opposite tack and achieve everlasting INFAMY. She and Obama remind MILLIONS of that old Blood Sweat and Tears song "And When I Die" - since that is probably HOW she and Obama feel about it.). With the Senate as closely divided between the parties as it's been in recent years, a few perfidious AKA "No-Good-Jerk" Republican senators are all it takes to defeat all the hard work that goes into a conservative initiative so Democrats win with their "unity or enetwnews orks ."lse" agenda. Republicans don't have anyone to make them wonder what "or else might be." Wherein the problem lies. Trump ALWAYS knows what "or else" might be. Trump tries to have "helpful" assistants rather than "unhelpful" assistants. Speaking of "unhelpful" for no apparent reason, Wallenchinsky seems to have been too long at "alphabet news."
If RINOs were "that way" because of the GOP Establishment...this is their chance to FIGHT with a VICTOR instead of...well you know...as the "My Pillow" fellow says. Historically, it's like choosing Chaka Khan or Magsaysay or Winston Churchill or Ike Eisenhower who were all the best for their time.All of these people inspired their followers and every one had people who were detractors, who said they "could not succeed".
Reformers/Polarizing/"Trying Times"Presidents The wonderful pictures got "entrenched" so that these will have to do...
1) President Donald J. Trump, businessman/actor/author/reformer of "untoward situations", as of January 20, 2017 is the #1 "bugaboo" according to "fake news". Trump frequently denounces CNN and others that get their early morning say-this "talking points" for their "less than accurate fabrications/stories/truth-tinged news items which consistently find fault with Trump even when he does the same things Obama did, although the "mainstream media" consistently had high praise and kudos for Obama, who could do no wrong, giving the entire world a 24/7/365 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Daa-Day. Media now "eats its collective heart out" because President Trump often "tweets" the real news before the media even knows it is news. ES&D to paraphrase an old college comeback.
In sharp contrast, conservative news sources like One America News (OAN) , Conservative News Service (CNS) and Fox about half the time when not "running" Chris (Wallace) Wall-eye-chinsky, "Fowl Play" Fowler and Juan "Long John" Williams to be "fair and balanced". Their "Me-(NOT-A)gyn is long gone the way of the other "perky" one - to "ride off into the sunset" for no apparent reason - with million$ of mega-
bucks. They succeeded! Even the greatest athlete of all time (pick your favorite) had flaws. Some won every competition YET was at life's FINISH LINE broke because of mismanaged funds, mistakes in judgement, etc etc.
A few of Trump's enemies will turn from their erroneous and onerous judgments because of Trump's many, many successes...others will never admit, even to themselves...that they were wrong. Others will dash themselves on the rocks of hatred after a headlong plunge into Trump Derangement Syndrome. A few will parlay hatred into big career breaks and gain huge contracts with enough money to do or become whatsoever they choose BUT they will know it was reactionary response and not talent, that attributed to their skyrocketing assent.
Even a POTUS or two got to the finish line of life...and missed the mark...sometimes due to health, wealth, or mistakes in judgement. We all make mistakes, but the REAL WINNERS learn from their mistakes. Sometimes they learn to turn enemies into allies when their enemies see that the WINNER is not in it for wealth or glory. A real NATIONALIST does not seek for his country to rule the world but for his country to be great and in so doing...be as a "Shining City Upon a Hill".
In actuality, the GOP does not OWN tax cuts but Democrats usually react by calling them tax cuts for the wealthy even if it is obvious that $40, $50 and $60 K earners have a "RAISE". Sometimes the Republican "plays the Democrats like a Stradivarius and later wants a tax cut for the middle class.which causes Democrats to go BONKERS since the middle class already benefited and Democrats cannot say the tax cut is for the "WEALTHY" in 2018 just before the midterm elections Trump announced ANOTHER tax cut in the offing which made Democrats so "LOCO" that a CNN reporter at a news conference tried to hold onto the microphone until an intern was dispatched to take it from him and pass it to another reporter. The CNN reporter named Jim Acosta got himself BANNED.
In a press conference prior to Trump flying to France for the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump was expressing his condolences about the Thousand Oaks shooting in California when another CNN reporter, Abby Philip asked President Trump, “Do you expect acting AG Matt Whitaker to be involved in the Russia probe?” Since this was "off topic and even "off-the-wall- stupid - President Trump admitted that this was a STUPID question since he had been discussing the Borderline Bar and Grill shooting.
Seriously, if reporters get a bonus for dragging up this old Mueller Russia probe related to Russian propaganda - it SHOULD BE thousands of dollars by now. If the Godfather had been annoyed with the same question ad nausium...SOMEONE would have been dealt with harshly. This is taking advantage of Trump's "good nature".
President Andrew Jackson, frontier lawyer, American soldier, military hero, statesman, populist As a new POTUS, Jackson had his enemies "quaking in their boots"- that he would muddy up the White House floors with his "dirty ol' black boots" and embarrass These United States by being unpresidential , or even slovenly in his attire and mannerisms.
Jackson was the seventh President from 1829-1837 after gaining fame as a US Army General defeating the Creek Indians who surrendered most of what nowadays is Alabama and Georgia. Later, he won the First Seminole War which led to the annexation of Florida from Spain. Having the wisdom to marshal local patriotic pirates and other New Orleans patriots, he defeated the British and became a national hero. Like Davy Crockett, he served Tennessee as a Representative. (Crockett, himself, resigned because of "at least one tax money giveaway" then fought for Texas, to die at the Alamo in 1836.) then Jackson became a US Senator before becoming a Tennessee Supreme Court justice.
But in 1824, Jackson lacked an absolute majority and without an absolute majority in the Electoral College, the 12th Amendment to the US Constitution required that the Presidential election be referred to the US House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, supported John Quincy Adams to WIN POTUS #6. It looked very "fishy" when Adams choose Henry Clay as Adams' Secretary of State. So many Jackson supporters were offended that they founded the Democratic Party in 1824 in opposition which has caused all sorts of turmoil, tribulation, and damnation since the party has devolved so much.
As for Andrew Jackson from 1827-1837 - Jackson stood up to the threat of secession by the southern state of South Carolina over what Jackson's opponents termed the "Tariff of Abominations." The secession crisis was avoided when the tariff was re-written, and Jackson promised US military force if South Carolina attempted to secede from the Union. Since Jackson said it, they knew that it was a promise and not just an idle threat.
In Congress, that erstwhile rascal Henry Clay promoted legislation to reauthorize the Second bank of the United States. Andrew Jackson, who saw the Bank as a thoroughly corrupt institution, vetoed the renewal of its charter. After a lengthy and prolonged dispute, Jackson and his allies thoroughly dismantled the Bank. In 1835, Jackson became the only president in US history to completely pay off the national debt, fulfilling a longtime goal. In stark, jolting contrast, President Donald J. Trump would face a formidable juggernaut tsunami of national debt since Barack Obama ran up MORE national debt than all 43 US presidents who preceded him who ran up debts from the US Civil War, a Great Depression, recessions, and two World Wars.So Andrew Jackson's elimination of the US national debt was a REALLY BIG DEAL most likely never to happen again since US is continually in debt to the Federal Reserve Bank which doesn't seem to have a charter but is permanently leaching money off the United States.
3) President George W. Bush, who signature looks like Gzn 13 "loop L", made being POTUS look so easy that Hillary Rodham Clinton thinks she can do it without 4 naps during the day and 4 hours of night time sleep. As additional qualification, she "dodged" two Prada shoes or just two cheap, unwanted shoes while giving a speech at a recycling convention.in Las Vegas. Her body language looked as if she had just drawn a $5000 winning poker hand.
George W. Bush's popularity soared after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks happened eight months after his initial inauguration. Bush's response is called the Bush Doctrine which launched a "Global War on Terror". This was an international military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan or Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001 and the Iraq War in 2003. Bush signed a broad tax cuts bill into law which always has the effect ignored by Democrats - of being good for the US economy which Democrats like to avoid because they THINK Republicans OWN tax cuts. The Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind, the Partial-Birth Abortion ban, Medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors, and funding for the AIDSrelief program known as PEPFAR. In the 2004 presidential campaign, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another somewhat close election . After his re-election, Bush received scathing and firey criticism from all sides of the political belief systems for his management of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina,[and other challenges. With this wielded as a substantial and unabated club by a lapdog Democrat media - this criticism, enabled the Democratic Party to regain control of Congress in the midterm 2006 elections. In December 2007, the United States entered its longest post-World War II recession, often referred to as the "Great Recession", prompting the Bush administration to have congress pass multiple economic programs intended to preserve the country's financial system. The term "too big to fail" was used.
February 6, 1911 and died on June 5, 2004 - was an American politician/radio and speech personality/actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As an Hollywood actor from 1937 on later Screen Actors Guild (actors trade union president two terms) as well as two-term 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
Ronald (Ronnie) Reagan, raised in a poor family in northern Illinois small towns, graduated from Eureka College in 1932. As a sports announcer on several regional radio stations in Illinois, he moved to Hollywood in 1937 to became an actor starring in several movies. As Screen Actors Guild president, he worked to clean up and oust Communist influence. In the 1950s, he hosted TVs "Death Valley Days", and held motivational speeches at General Electric factories. Reagan liked to say he had been a Democrat until 1962, when his party left him so he joined the Republican Party as a conservative. In 1964, Reagan's speech, "A Time for Choosing", Barry Goldwater's footshooting Juneteen "racist" presidential speech (GOP Establishment inspired/written)ruined his chances but Reagan supported him gaining national attention as a new conservative spokesman. Constructing an alliance network of friends and supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, where he Reagan raised taxes as necessary to turned a Democrat-devastated state budget deficit into a budget surplus. Reagan met the challenge of University of California protesters, requested National Guard troops during 1969's protest movement incidents, and was re-elected in 1970. He was opposed successfully by the GOP Establishment in 1968 and 1976, persevered and four years later in 1980, won the Republican nomination after the GOP Establishment decided he was too old, he could lose it for them but at 69 years and 349 days of age, he became the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office. Donald Trump became the oldest POTUS in 2017.
As president,Reagan implemented comprehensive new political and economic initiatives. Replacing economic policies that did not work, Reagan's supply-side economic policies, media named "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to boost economic growth, economic deregulation to unsqelch business, and reduction in government's wasteful spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt by a now released shooter who is "reformed", encouraged the War on Drugs, and opposed public sector labor's generosity to Democrats and strangulation of business. During his 1981-1989 his presidency, inflation was reduced from 12.5% to 4.4%, with an average annual growth of actual Gross Domestic Production (GDP) of 3.4%. Reagan got actual discretionary spending cuts, reduced the tax burden, and increased military spending which boosted the economy despite increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for inflation. In his second term, foreign affairs achievements included ending the Cold War with Russia's "bloodless" only three dead "revolution, bombed Quaddafi in Libya, noticed the Iran–Iraq War kept them both too busy to bother much of the remaining world, and the Iran–Contra Democrat-Let's-Get-Reagan-He'sToo-Good-Incident . In June of 1987, just four years after he publicly dubbed the Soviet Union "evil empire", Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that urged and challenged Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Reagan transitioned Cold War policy from détente to rollback by escalating an arms race with the USSR while discussing policy with Gorbachev. The talks culminated in the INF Treaty, which shrank both countries' nuclear arsenals but with critical verification which was lacking in the disasterously, ill-conceived-one-sided Obama Iran Deal. Reagan's "Star Wars" Project, although media scorned, contributed greatly to the decline of the Soviet Union (USSR or CCCP), and the Berlin Wall was taken down ten months after his term's end. West Germany reunified with the "drained of resources and polluted East - the following year, and on December 26, 1991 which was almost three years after Reagan left office, the Soviet Union collapsed under Reagan's VP George Bush. Too bad Bush was spent from eight years of doing almost nothing and had little energy left to contribute except to hand over the presidency on a "silver platter" due to a carefully planned "Read my lips", oops - the Democrats lied again.
Upon leaving office in 1989, Reagan held an approval rating of 68 percent, similar to but eclipsing that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the 20th Century. The first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after five prior presidents in a row - did not. Reagan disclosed in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in 1994 forcing informal public appearances to become more infrequent as the disease progressed. Reagan died at home on June 5, 2004. He was naturally revered by one or two Democrat American conservatives and disliked by progressives, the GOP Establishment, and Democrats. Thus he is top five and viewed favorably in historical rankings of U.S. presidents, and his tenure set the stage for a much needed realignment in 2017 toward conservative policies to uplift the United States. As on Thanksgiving Day, 2018, the USA is well on its way to becoming Reagan's "Bright Shining City on a H
HOW President Barack Hussein Obama manages to outrank William Henry Harrison who died about two months into office before he could accomplish anything (or do any damage).
Seeing the "Great Recession" as a terrific way to "Get America Down Again" - Obama went to great lengths to both extend the recession and "spread the wealth" from haves to have nots, punishing the producers. Easing the rules increased food stamp usage and increased unemployment by driving businesses with regulations and complicated taxing to move over-seas and to Mexico and Canada. "No-budget-spending-sprees" also ran up the national debt to 21 TRILLION in an effort to ***Cloward-Piven the US into an Argentina has-been banana republic or bankrupt nation but Obama only succeeded in trashing the US's credit rating. Several credit rating agencies worldwide have downgraded their credit ratings of the U.S. federal government, including Moody's and Standard and Poor's (S&P) which reduced the America's rating from AAA (outstanding) to AA+ (excellent) on August 5, 2011.
***In 1966, the *Cloward–Piven strategy was devised by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. It involved overloading the U.S. public entitlement system in order to precipitate a socialism crisis that would lead to collapse and starting over with communism.
***In 1966, the *Cloward–Piven strategy was devised by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. It involved overloading the U.S. public entitlement system in order to precipitate a socialism crisis that would lead to collapse and starting over with communism.
Obama tax cut was allegedly thwarted to blame GOP which Establishment faction was elated - between 2009 and 2017.and the TARP and $700 billion stimulus was applied to reward big banks.
POTUS #32, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, longest-serving president, went against George Washington's 8 year traditional limit that had been followed for about 150 years, running an unprecedented THIRD and FOURTH time before he died in office in 1945.
First elected in 1932, FDR won all of his presidential elections in landslides.
With what came to be called the “New Deal coalition,” virtually unconnected groups such as Southern whites, Catholics, Jews, African-Americans, labor union members and small farmers voted him in with at least 53% of the popular vote and over 432 Electoral College votes to beat unpopular incumbent Herbert Hoover, Kansas Governor Alf Landon, businessman Wendell Willkie and lastly New York Governor Thomas Dewey in 1944. The New York Times famously GOOFED, printing a first edition "Dewey WINS!"
Roosevelt had to contend with history's "Great Depression"with what historians call the first of two parts of his "New Deal". By allowing weak banks to fail, freezing deposits from being "run upon", federally insured bank deposits, going off the gold standard, and many other measures that seem arbitrary, dictator-like, and "high-handed". He also took measures to end Prohibition, boost employment through large-scale public works projects (WPA), to institute agricultural subsidies and electrify rural areas.
As early as 1937, Roosevelt proposed "packing the Supreme Court" by increasing it to 15 which violated the separation of powers edict in the US Constitution. FDR wanted to appoint a new judge for every judge over 70 who would not retire since they struck down several measures FDR wanted. Although Democrats ruled both houses of Congress, this was disallowed. However, the more FDR appointed, the less opposition he had until he had appointed 7 of the 9 before he died.
"Part B" was known as the “Second New Deal.” To help pay for all the changes, Congress raised taxes on the wealthy, guaranteed labor unions the right to collectively bargain and approved unemployment and disability benefits, as well as Social Security for retirees. Despite all these efforts, Roosevelt could not drag America out of the Depression until war loomed large and the USA started mobilizing for World War II.
FDR had to contend with 8 saboteurs that landed in 1942. Although two defected and turned in the six others who were hanged, these two were pardoned by FDR from death, and given prison sentences. Eventually both were deported back to Germany. Perhaps in part due to Takeo Yoshikawa's five grid warship information and other Pearl Harbor spying, in February 1942, FDR signed an executive order on “military areas … from which any or all persons may be excluded.” This granted the War Department powers so that about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, of whom two-thirds were American citizens, were forcibly loaded onto buses and other transportation and detained in internment camps. Their property was sold off at bargain-basement prices. German-Americans and Italian-Americans were mostly spared from this drastic measure. Decades later, the US Congress issued a formal apology and awarded $20,000 to each surviving detainee.
It is OBVIOUS TO SOME, that the only way a POTUS can "make his mark" on history is by being an outstandingly GOOD POTUS or like Nero of Rome - being so utterly BAD that nobody could possibly forget the wretched flop who left so much wreckage that it makes the Pacific seabed wreckage of World War II look like the bottom of that huge lake in Florida. The guy was a wrecking ball - for Islam - apparently - although he bragged about being something of a "killing machine" with mechanized, and weaponized drones and wanted to be known as the POTUS who "got" bin Laden. in actuality the short substitute AKA bin Laden. But only Farsi experts can read bin Laden's death announcement of 2001 and the replacement was strangely never photographed standing six feet five inches tall because he was shorter by only eleven inches or so.
Reagan would not mind being last but not least since he, of all people, would know very well who ranks last.
POTUS #32, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, longest-serving president, went against George Washington's 8 year traditional limit that had been followed for about 150 years, running an unprecedented THIRD and FOURTH time before he died in office in 1945.
First elected in 1932, FDR won all of his presidential elections in landslides.
With what came to be called the “New Deal coalition,” virtually unconnected groups such as Southern whites, Catholics, Jews, African-Americans, labor union members and small farmers voted him in with at least 53% of the popular vote and over 432 Electoral College votes to beat unpopular incumbent Herbert Hoover, Kansas Governor Alf Landon, businessman Wendell Willkie and lastly New York Governor Thomas Dewey in 1944. The New York Times famously GOOFED, printing a first edition "Dewey WINS!"
Roosevelt had to contend with history's "Great Depression"with what historians call the first of two parts of his "New Deal". By allowing weak banks to fail, freezing deposits from being "run upon", federally insured bank deposits, going off the gold standard, and many other measures that seem arbitrary, dictator-like, and "high-handed". He also took measures to end Prohibition, boost employment through large-scale public works projects (WPA), to institute agricultural subsidies and electrify rural areas.
As early as 1937, Roosevelt proposed "packing the Supreme Court" by increasing it to 15 which violated the separation of powers edict in the US Constitution. FDR wanted to appoint a new judge for every judge over 70 who would not retire since they struck down several measures FDR wanted. Although Democrats ruled both houses of Congress, this was disallowed. However, the more FDR appointed, the less opposition he had until he had appointed 7 of the 9 before he died.
"Part B" was known as the “Second New Deal.” To help pay for all the changes, Congress raised taxes on the wealthy, guaranteed labor unions the right to collectively bargain and approved unemployment and disability benefits, as well as Social Security for retirees. Despite all these efforts, Roosevelt could not drag America out of the Depression until war loomed large and the USA started mobilizing for World War II.
FDR had to contend with 8 saboteurs that landed in 1942. Although two defected and turned in the six others who were hanged, these two were pardoned by FDR from death, and given prison sentences. Eventually both were deported back to Germany. Perhaps in part due to Takeo Yoshikawa's five grid warship information and other Pearl Harbor spying, in February 1942, FDR signed an executive order on “military areas … from which any or all persons may be excluded.” This granted the War Department powers so that about 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, of whom two-thirds were American citizens, were forcibly loaded onto buses and other transportation and detained in internment camps. Their property was sold off at bargain-basement prices. German-Americans and Italian-Americans were mostly spared from this drastic measure. Decades later, the US Congress issued a formal apology and awarded $20,000 to each surviving detainee.
It is OBVIOUS TO SOME, that the only way a POTUS can "make his mark" on history is by being an outstandingly GOOD POTUS or like Nero of Rome - being so utterly BAD that nobody could possibly forget the wretched flop who left so much wreckage that it makes the Pacific seabed wreckage of World War II look like the bottom of that huge lake in Florida. The guy was a wrecking ball - for Islam - apparently - although he bragged about being something of a "killing machine" with mechanized, and weaponized drones and wanted to be known as the POTUS who "got" bin Laden. in actuality the short substitute AKA bin Laden. But only Farsi experts can read bin Laden's death announcement of 2001 and the replacement was strangely never photographed standing six feet five inches tall because he was shorter by only eleven inches or so.
Ronald Wilson Reagan who was born February 6, 1911 and died on June 5, 2004 - was an American politician/radio and speech personality/actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As an Hollywood actor from 1937 on later Screen Actors Guild (actors trade union president two terms) as well as two-term 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
Reagan, raised in a poor family in northern Illinois small towns, graduated from Eureka College in 1932. As a sports announcer on several regional radio stations in Illinois, he moved to Hollywood in 1937 to became an actor starring in several movies. As Screen Actors Guild president, he worked to clean up and oust Communist influence. In the 1950s, he hosted TVs "Death Valley Days", and held motivational speeches at General Electric factories. Reagan left him so he joined the Republican Party as a consliked to say he had been a Democrat until 1962, when his party ervative. In 1964, Reagan's speech, "A Time for Choosing", Barry Goldwater's footshooting Juneteen "racist" presidential speech (GOP Establishment inspired/written)
ruined his chances but Reagan supported him gaining national attention as a new conservative spokesman. Constructing an alliance network of friends and supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. As governor, where he Reagan raised taxes as necessary to turned a Democrat-
devastated state budget deficit into a budget surplus. Reagan met the challenge of University of California protesters, requested National Guard troops during 1969's protest movement incidents, and was re-elected in 1970. He was opposed successfully by the GOP Establishment in 1968 and 1976, persevered and four years later in 1980, won the
Republican nomination after the GOP Establishment decided he was too old, he could lose it for them but at 69 years and 349 days of age, he became the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office. Donald Trump became the oldest POTUS in 2017.
As president,Reagan implemented comprehensive new political and economic initiatives. Replacing economic policies that did not work, Reagan's supply-side economic policies, media named "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction
boosting economic growth, economic deregulation to unsqelch business, and reduction in government's wasteful spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt by a now released shooter who is "reformed", encouraged the War on Drugs, and opposed public sector labor's generosity to
Democrats and strangulation of business. During his 1981-1989 his presidency, inflation was reduced from 12.5% to 4.4%, with an average annual growth of actual Gross Domestic Production (GDP) of 3.4%. Reagan got actual discretionary spending cuts, reduced the tax burden, and
increased military spending which boosted the economy despite increased federal outlays overall, even after adjustment for inflation. In his second term, foreign affairs achievements included ending the Cold War with Russia's "bloodless" only three dead "revolution, bombed Quaddafi in Libya, noticed the Iran–Iraq War kept them both too busy to
bother much of the remaining world, and the Iran–Contra Democrat-Let's-Get-Reagan-He'sToo-Good-Incident . In June of 1987, just four years after he publicly dubbed the Soviet Union "evil empire", Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate that urged and challenged Soviet General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Reagan transitioned Cold War policy from detente to rollback by escalating an arms race with the USSR while discussing policy with Gorbachev. The talks culminated in the INF Treaty, which shrank both countries' nuclear arsenals but with critical .
verification which was lacking in the disastrously, ill-conceived-one-sided Obama Iran Deal. Reagan's "Star Wars" Project, although media scorned, contributed greatly to the decline of the Soviet Union (USSR or CCCP), and the Berlin Wall was taken down ten months after his term's end
West Germany reunified with the "drained of resources and polluted East" - the following year, and on December 26, 1991 which was almost three years after Reagan left office, the Soviet Union collapsed under Reagan's VP George Bush. Too bad Bush, no doubt tired and worn out from "bench warming" as Reagan's VP was further exasperated from constant barrage of blatant media bias, poor-mouthing, sour graping, second-guessing, constant scathing criticism for every lackluster accomplishment Bush attempted
after eight boring years of doing almost nothing. To nobody's real surprise, Bush had little energy left to contribute except to hand over the presidency on a "silver platter" using his a carefully planned "Read my lips", oops - (paraphrasing) the Democrats lied again. I'm so SHOCKED! They PROMISED with MOVING LIPS to give a two dollar cut for every dollar of additional taxes but the tax HIKE BILL I signed instead of VETOING - said not a WORD about cutting spending - imagine THAT! So I let them raise taxes and make a liar out of me because like Molder and Scully, "I want to believe!" Nevermind the "middle word" of BELIEVE and a favorite of Democrats - is "LIE".
! Maybe I'm really as BAD as you media all say I am since I was a C.I.A. Director for too long. Now my son "W" cannot help but be a far better POTUS than I ever wanted to be since he is younger and actually does give a darn."END OF anti-give-up-GOP-rant."Sorry reader but the very thought of GOP Establishment jerks HELPING the Democrats...is IRKSOME to the MAX.
! Maybe I'm really as BAD as you media all say I am since I was a C.I.A. Director for too long. Now my son "W" cannot help but be a far better POTUS than I ever wanted to be since he is younger and actually does give a darn."END OF anti-give-up-GOP-rant."Sorry reader but the very thought of GOP Establishment jerks HELPING the Democrats...is IRKSOME to the MAX.
Here to WAX Poetical...
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. ---Sir Walter Scott
Upon leaving office in 1989, Reagan held an approval rating of 68 percent, similar to but eclipsing that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and later Bill Clinton, as the highest ratings for
departing presidents in the 20th Century. The first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms, after five prior presidents in a row - did not. Reagan disclosed in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in 1994 forcing informal public appearances to become more infrequent as the disease progressed. Reagan died at home on June 5, 2004. Ronald Reagan was naturally revered by "Reaganites" and other conservatives and of course, by old school patriotic Democrat Zell Miller and
by one or two other Democrat American conservatives and disliked by progressives, the GOP Establishment, and Democrats. Thus he is top five and viewed favorably in historical rankings of U.S. presidents, and his tenure set the stage for a much needed realignment in 2017 toward conservative policies to uplift the United States. As on Thanksgiving Day, 2018, the USA is well on its way to becoming Reagan's "Bright Shining City on a Hill".Reagan would not mind being last but not least since he, of all people, would know very well who ranks last.
