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Fri Jun 19, 2015, 06:21 PM

140. Absofrigginlutely!

I am with you 100%. My hatred for that man is pure. And my disgust for those small-minded citizens who lionized this criminal cannot be properly expressed. Nixon messed with Johnson's peace negotiations to win the 68 election. Reagan bribed the mullahs in Iran to delay the release of hostages to win the 80 election. Bush steals the 2000 election and yet - silence.

Thom Hartmann first pointed out (at least to my reckoning) that in 1980 the USA was No. 1 in exporting manufactured goods; importing raw materials; and lending money to other countries. By 2005 we had become No. 1 in importing manufactured goods; exporting raw materials, and the world's largest borrower of money.

The phony "invasion" of Grenada took place shortly after 242 Marines were killed in Beirut. Ronny tucked tail and ran. Nobody on the chicken hawk side cared one bit.

I sometimes wonder if America suffered a giant collective aneurysm during the Regan era.

Thanks for coming to work!

The Shadow Mayor

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Wanna Know Who Made Racism ''Acceptable Again'' in the good ol' USA? [View all]	Octafish	Jun 2015	OP
Well, I knew who you were talking about before I opened your post...	Hissyspit	Jun 2015	#1
''Pruneface.''	Octafish	Jun 2015	#2
Mayor Young was refreshingly honest	navarth	Jun 2015	#51
+1 nt	Quayblue	Jun 2015	#58
Amen! 'The legacy of Saint Reagan is one of treachery, malfeasance and treason IMO.'	Surya Gayatri	Jun 2015	#162
Murdered thousands of Gay people too	randys1	Jun 2015	#201
Yep. n/t	Gormy Cuss	Jun 2015	#120
Lee Atwater, Rove's role model developed the "Southern Strategy"	merrily	Jun 2015	#3
ATWATER: “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger'"	66 dmhlt	Jun 2015	#5
then they said "crack, crack, crack"	mopinko	Jun 2015	#41
And then they fell to their knees, lit the incense, and prayed "Yes, Yes, YES!!!"	calimary	Jun 2015	#64
And when that story was told, they killed the messenger.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#97
well, it could be.	mopinko	Jun 2015	#145
I'll say what Prof. McCoy says.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#164
Big gitter player	Octafish	Jun 2015	#9
Good grief. What are they doing with their faces and why are they doing it?	merrily	Jun 2015	#14
There ws an extra $10 prize...	bvar22	Jun 2015	#74
I recall seeing that live (or on the news the next day) during GHWB's inauguration	Chiyo-chichi	Jun 2015	#88
He certainly doesn't look African American when he does that.	merrily	Jun 2015	#92
Of course not.	Chiyo-chichi	Jun 2015	#98
Looks like the "duckface" that seems to be so popular on FB & Instagram today	7962	Jun 2015	#174
Me neither, but I guess that was obvious.	merrily	Jun 2015	#178
posted by MohRokTah	napkinz	Jun 2015	#17
Chilling. It sounds so current.	SunSeeker	Jun 2015	#167
Atwater got EXACTLY the karma	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#47
So it is fine with you for people to suffer for their crimes? Excellent....	MicaelS	Jun 2015	#153
it wasn't inflicted by any outside force.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#154
Of so it can't be an "Outside Force" huh?	MicaelS	Jun 2015	#155
I'm perfectly fine with it! He's the perfect candidate for the DP.	7962	Jun 2015	#175
I agree completely.	MicaelS	Jun 2015	#176
Hey, you've been here before!!	7962	Jun 2015	#179
I hear Atwater repented before he died.	madfloridian	Jun 2015	#151
Converted to Catholicism, too.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#180
That's the right answer. But on DU it's tricky to criticize Reagan, many here voted for him and	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2015	#4
In addition to defending Reagan, they defend Bush I, II and the rest of the Crime Family	Octafish	Jun 2015	#10
Huge +1!	Enthusiast	Jun 2015	#13
this post says it all	heaven05	Jun 2015	#33
"Many here voted for him." Somehow, I doubt that.	Comrade Grumpy	Jun 2015	#63
I agree with you.	pacalo	Jun 2015	#90
Can't speak for others	Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin	Jun 2015	#184
+1	Bobbie Jo	Jun 2015	#100
I've never found it tricky.	LWolf	Jun 2015	#182
He was a horrible man	gollygee	Jun 2015	#6
If there are such things as historians in the future	deutsey	Jun 2015	#18
Reagan could not have pulled it off without the willing acquiescence of many who should have known	KingCharlemagne	Jun 2015	#31
and still think	heaven05	Jun 2015	#34
Reagan was a fascist piece of shit, going back to his days as Gov. of California when he threatened	KingCharlemagne	Jun 2015	#35
I remember that, even though I was a student in the UK at the time	GCP	Jun 2015	#57
Reagan called in the National Guard over 4 "dirty words" in The Berkely Barb	stuffmatters	Jun 2015	#137
No question	deutsey	Jun 2015	#37
The roots go all the way back to the First Gilded Age.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#87
Yes, and the break between Taft and Roosevelt	deutsey	Jun 2015	#91
I am not so sure about that.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#94
Give the interview a listen	deutsey	Jun 2015	#99
The thing to remember about RWR is that he started as a Cold War Dem. He's the missing link	leveymg	Jun 2015	#80
Good points all. Simply add a little astrology to the mix and, voila, you've got	KingCharlemagne	Jun 2015	#84
I've been saying that for twenty years. nt	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#48
Agreed.	CrispyQ	Jun 2015	#69
Racism is going to get worse as competition for the few good jobs that are still	Baitball Blogger	Jun 2015	#7
Yep. And the GOP messaging that tells white people that PoC are the "takers"	cui bono	Jun 2015	#72
I was thinking that while he was still in office.	Boomerproud	Jun 2015	#8
Meh...Reagan was as phony as a 3 dollar bill...	Wounded Bear	Jun 2015	#11
...because of Reagan,	bvar22	Jun 2015	#75
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!	Enthusiast	Jun 2015	#12
Bingo	deutsey	Jun 2015	#15
Racism has always been acceptable in the U.S.	sufrommich	Jun 2015	#16
+1	gollygee	Jun 2015	#21
So you're saying	whathehell	Jun 2015	#38
I said nothing like what you're claiming I said. nt	sufrommich	Jun 2015	#39
I didn't claim anything, I asked a question to clarify your statement.	whathehell	Jun 2015	#40
+1	zappaman	Jun 2015	#81
+1. This country was built by African slave labor and the extermination of indigenous peoples	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#103
Maybe that's why Republicans love him so much. He made hate fashionable again.	Initech	Jun 2015	#19
Bigotry, stupidity and greed.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#89
How Ronald Reagan used coded racial appeals to galvanize white voters and gut the middle class	Octafish	Jun 2015	#191
Rick Perlstein's books recount the entire story in painstaking detail.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#205
And that is true, from my own experience.	zeemike	Jun 2015	#20
So black people were the Pet Rocks of the '70s?	sufrommich	Jun 2015	#30
Well if that is how you want to spin it.	zeemike	Jun 2015	#52
To be fair	MountCleaners	Jun 2015	#206
the Reagan Library is in Simi Valley	olddots	Jun 2015	#22
the devil incarnate	heaven05	Jun 2015	#23
#	underpants	Jun 2015	#24
Uh....yeah...	ileus	Jun 2015	#25
Hate radio has also played a huge role in ramping up racial hatred	riderinthestorm	Jun 2015	#26
He is responsible for much of the backward movement in this country	etherealtruth	Jun 2015	#27
It was always acceptable	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2015	#28
President John F. Kennedy found racism unacceptable.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#83
If you are talking Presidents - that's one thing	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2015	#85
+1	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#106
We were in Alabama when Kennedy was shot, and Dad was working in Huntsville (Apollo program stuff)	hatrack	Jun 2015	#123
Yeah	JustAnotherGen	Jun 2015	#134
Bolden's story is one far more people should know.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#96
Abraham Bolden gets no mention in the history books for a reason.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#124
Yep.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#125
''He called me, 'Mr. Bolden.'''	Octafish	Jun 2015	#128
Lee Atwater had an army of racists and supremacists he used to political advantage.	blm	Jun 2015	#29
Do tell!	MountCleaners	Jun 2015	#207
Lee Atwater had SC wired with his racist hit squad including a group from Bob Jones Univ.	blm	Jun 2015	#210
And yet in an interview with Mike Wallace in 1988, Ronny couldn't understand why so many	muntrv	Jun 2015	#32
Yes he did.	MuseRider	Jun 2015	#36
His mouthpiece:	marions ghost	Jun 2015	#42
Yup.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#146
The Powell Memo.	calimary	Jun 2015	#157
YEAH...this guy	yuiyoshida	Jun 2015	#161
Actually, the Dixiecrats who revolted against Civil Rights gains in the 60s and became Southern	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jun 2015	#43
This needs to be a Separate Post All On It's Own.....	LovingA2andMI	Jun 2015	#169
''Liberal Media'' - ''Liberal Mind''... So...	Octafish	Jun 2015	#181
RACISM has always been around and never went out of style. There never was a time when	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jun 2015	#44
What's a bullshit argument?	navarth	Jun 2015	#55
Saying that racism is "acceptable again" implies that there was a time when racism	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jun 2015	#188
Don't you find it odd when a president leads the racist resurgence?	Octafish	Jun 2015	#190
Wrong. Nixon led the resurgence. Read again. The Southern Strategy was Nixon's agenda.	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jun 2015	#199
That shows how something can be wrong and right at the same time.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#208
You simply won't admit your mistake. The assertion you made, "Reagan was responsible for racism's	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jun 2015	#211
No, I wrote Reagan was the key figure in its resurgence.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#212
Yeah, you'd better say Reagan ...	eppur_se_muova	Jun 2015	#45
Reagan was one of the worst Presidents for the poor, the marginalized, the historically oppressed	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#118
Ronald Reagan was crack cocaine for America ...	eppur_se_muova	Jun 2015	#131
YES!!!! One of the most practically RACIST presidents in US history!!	uponit7771	Jun 2015	#46
The Reagan administration was a stain on our country.	bigwillq	Jun 2015	#49
Reagan did so much to hurt the USA, the mean-spirited asshole. kr	PufPuf23	Jun 2015	#50
Well there you go again...	liberal N proud	Jun 2015	#53
I hate very few people I have never met.	99Forever	Jun 2015	#54
I remember it all too well.	byronius	Jun 2015	#56
good reminder!	Fast Walker 52	Jun 2015	#59
My guess ...	GeorgeGist	Jun 2015	#172
It's always been acceptable.	Solly Mack	Jun 2015	#60
It stopped -- for a time, anyway -- in the Oval Office during the Kennedy Administration.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#193
So what?	SpartanDem	Jun 2015	#195
So what? Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist	Octafish	Jun 2015	#198
I'm sorry, Octafish. Racism never stopped being acceptable.	Solly Mack	Jun 2015	#200
Cause George Wallace was really a PussyCat?	One_Life_To_Give	Jun 2015	#61
George Wallace had a lot of help from his friends.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#78
Nat'l assoc of Governors meeting	One_Life_To_Give	Jun 2015	#95
Really? The AP says 1983.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#112
July 30th, 1983	One_Life_To_Give	Jun 2015	#116
Thanks! Good times.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#117
I am SOOOOOO bookmarking this thread. Several different ways.	calimary	Jun 2015	#62
Bookmarked.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#82
A truly righesous rant, calimary.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#108
+++Gold Star Post+++	Agony	Jun 2015	#132
Absofrigginlutely!	shadowmayor	Jun 2015	#140
Welcome to DU, shadowmayor!	calimary	Jun 2015	#156
Stunning reply	shadowmayor	Jun 2015	#163
another thing I think he is at fault for	d_r	Jun 2015	#202
I have a web site on Reagan's racism	scoobiedavis	Jun 2015	#65
Outstanding Resource! Thank You!	Octafish	Jun 2015	#186
Thom Harrmann is referencing this right now n/t	phylny	Jun 2015	#66
"Ronnie Raygun vs. the Welfare Queens From Outer Space!"	LongTomH	Jun 2015	#67
Thanks for your great posts. nm	rhett o rick	Jun 2015	#68
He is called Ray-GUN for a reason.	lark	Jun 2015	#70
Woodstock had a song about Ronald Raygunzap.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#76
And Roselyn Carter	KT2000	Jun 2015	#71
And he raised greed to sacrament status.	calimary	Jun 2015	#130
It was never not acceptable.	iandhr	Jun 2015	#73
Yep, the war on welfare (now conflated with SSI) is code for racism	daredtowork	Jun 2015	#77
Let's hope whatever it was never returns.	Zorra	Jun 2015	#79
Jayzus riding a unicycle and juggling fish.	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#110
As horrendous as the senile old fraud was, he was the symptom and the carrier,	hifiguy	Jun 2015	#86
Brilliant! Let's make this go viral. nt	Damansarajaya	Jun 2015	#93
Not to mention he kicked off his Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi as a symbol of	Hoyt	Jun 2015	#101
Thanks. I did mention that, though.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#102
Sorry, I missed that. It's always the first thing I think of when people fawn	Hoyt	Jun 2015	#104
I am sorry I sound so pedantic...lots of history being rewritten when it comes to fascism.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#107
I have to admit, I'm on my phone and pretty much just looked at the photo. Just went back	Hoyt	Jun 2015	#111
Racism has always been acceptable in the US	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#105
Except Reagan worked to reverse the progress other presidents had made.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#109
Presidents can't do anything progressive without masses of ordinary people demanding that they do it	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#114
That is one cruel and awful person. Guatemala and all the others...	SaranchaIsWaiting	Jun 2015	#113
Reagan was one of the worst since Andrew Jackson.	Admiral Loinpresser	Jun 2015	#149
Well, in all fairness to Ronnie the Empty Suit, Tricky Dick was really pretty bad too:	struggle4progress	Jun 2015	#115
The difference is that Nixon was caught doing criminal acts	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#119
Ronnie was caught too, but the House decided not to pursue impeachment	struggle4progress	Jun 2015	#121
Which is to their eternal shame and discredit	YoungDemCA	Jun 2015	#122
Had Reagan been impeached, his forced testimony would have outed his alzheimers	stuffmatters	Jun 2015	#141
Would've outted Poppy Bush's treason, too.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#194
Thom Hartmann referred to your post this morning on his radio show.	Cleita	Jun 2015	#126
Great thread. K&R (eom)	CanSocDem	Jun 2015	#127
FTR: Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were more than "marchers";	WinkyDink	Jun 2015	#129
Thank you. That is an important distinction: ''Workers.''	Octafish	Jun 2015	#139
I totally agree	gopiscrap	Jun 2015	#133
What a monster! Also, for what he was responsible for in South America....	Joe Chi Minh	Jun 2015	#135
K&R	myrna minx	Jun 2015	#136
Don't forget the site of Reagan's first speech after receiving gthe 1980 Republican nomination.	bulloney	Jun 2015	#138
+1,000 n/t	Admiral Loinpresser	Jun 2015	#152
Philadelphia, Mississippi had a population of about 5,000 and had no significance whatsoever	aint_no_life_nowhere	Jun 2015	#183
Great thread, many thanks, big bookmark!	stuffmatters	Jun 2015	#142
Sometimes actors come across as pretty superficial, but I often think	Joe Chi Minh	Jun 2015	#143
A lot of retrograde thinking keeps....	wolfie001	Jun 2015	#144
Reagan also killed	sulphurdunn	Jun 2015	#147
K&R! I thought it was going to be Poppy Bush refering to Jeb's kids as his "little brown babies"....	Ghost in the Machine	Jun 2015	#148
Bush Defends 'Little Brown Ones' Term for Grandchildren, Tells 'Pride and Love'	Octafish	Jun 2015	#185
Thanks for the background and links, Octafish!	Ghost in the Machine	Jun 2015	#187
Yes, following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon.	Blue_In_AK	Jun 2015	#150
Bookmarked and K & R. Thanks for restoring some historical perspective to the debate.	Surya Gayatri	Jun 2015	#158
R#255 & K!1 n/t	UTUSN	Jun 2015	#159
UTUSN!	Octafish	Jun 2015	#166
Racism has always been acceptable in the United States.	man4allcats	Jun 2015	#160
That's why I find it odd for the PRESIDENT to lead its resurgence.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#165
It was screamed in the 80's, and it was 100% true: Reagan was a god damned puppet.	C Moon	Jun 2015	#168
Octafish, I can always count on you to cut through the crap.	silvershadow	Jun 2015	#170
Wow! I so agree.....	bobGandolf	Jun 2015	#171
Reagan	Rafale	Jun 2015	#173
I don't think racism has ever acceptable	davidpdx	Jun 2015	#177
Sec. of Education Terrel H. Bell spoke up. Ask Ed Meese.	Octafish	Jun 2015	#192
I commend him for that	davidpdx	Jun 2015	#204
Today in 1964	MinM	Jun 2015	#189
Only the most pollyannaish white liberal could ever believe this BS	SpartanDem	Jun 2015	#196
Hey! That's EXACTLY what my Republican neighbor said!	Octafish	Jun 2015	#197
don't forget this	d_r	Jun 2015	#203
Yes.........k and r.. he validated racism for those who need that...nt	Stuart G	Jun 2015	#209

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