This’n’That; June Twenty-Ninth #2; Cooler Heads

In The Wake Of The obama Tax Law Approval

    Now is not the time to go off half-cocked.  The cooler heads in the Republican party must prevail.  Let “Clown Prince” obama ‘spike-the-ball‘ all he wants.  Let “Clown Prince” obama take all the ‘victory laps‘ he wants.   While said “Clown” is concentrating on his narcissistic image among the various peoples of the United States, the Republicans can take that free time to formulate a specific plan to combat the obama Tax Law.

    Governor Romney needs to realize that the recent actions of the Supreme Court were not about ‘healthcare’ in any shape, form or manner.  As evidenced in the tax increase of $11,000 to $14,000 on the average family-of-four by 2016, wealth re-distribution has been the primary, the only objective of the Bilderberg Group—obama‘s chief political benefactors.

    The Republican hierarchy in the House will bode well to co-ordinate with the Romney Campaign to formulate a platform and a cohesive message, going forward.  No longer will the blanket statement of ‘repeal-and-replace’ be an effective message going on to election day, a mere 130 days from today!

Some suggestions the Romney Campaign Team might consider:

1.  Rather than wait until the last few days running up to the Republican National Convention to name a running-mate, complete the vetting process on the top contenders and choose one to immediately go ‘on-the-stump.’  This would give the Republican campaign the advantage of having two to spread the message, one of them NOT being joe biden, who necessarily talks around the-foot-in-his-mouth!

2.  Formulate specifics on each plank in the Republican Presidential Campaign platform.  The time for ‘blanket statements’ is over; the American voter needs–and wants–to hear specifics that will positively change his or her life going forward beyond a Republican win in November.

3.  Campaign NOT on a faulty, socialist national healthcare law, but on the upcoming massive individual tax increase–the likes of which has never before seen on earth!!

4.  The campaign would bode well to review both “Ronaldus-Magnus” presidential campaigns, concentrating on Mr Reagan‘s 49-state (in obama‘s mind: a 56-state) landslide.  The Romney Presidential Campaign is practically a mirror-image of the Reagan first campaign; Governor Reagan was campaigning against an incompetent, inept peanut farmer in Jimmuh Cahtah, while Governor Romney is campaigning against an incompetent, inept street agitator in “Clown Prince” obama!!

5.  The Supreme Court approval of the obama Tax Law will re-energize the “Tea Party” Movement with even more power and energy than said movement demonstrated in the months running up to the successful 2010 mid-term elections!  This faithful, conservative, well-focused group is there for the Romney campaign to re-energize, re-direct and put toward a successful campaign and election.

Just a few suggestions!  I’m sure greater-minds than I can come up with even more, even greater suggestions!!

‘Splain to me again why YOU elected this Verdammte Arschloch!?!

Til Nex’Time….

This’n’That; June Twenty-Eighth #2; “Ronaldus-Magnus”

From President Ronald Reagan’s Diaries

Today (June 28) in each year of President Reagan‘s second term:

1985

Friday, June 28:

    Yesterday we lost in the Judiciary Committee.  Brad Reynolds nomination (by me) to be the No. 3 man at Justice was rejected.  They even refused to pass it out to the floor with a no pass recommendation because of their fear the whole Sen. would do what they were unwilling to do–approve him. & they couldn’t have done what the did without the help of 2 Repubs. Sens. Spector and Mathias.  Well there are 2 Sens. I won’t have to help campaign.

    [Flew to Chicago; visited school with local officials; met families of hostages and of kidnap victim; speech on tax reform; returned to Washington; National Security Planning Group (NSPG) meeting; received indications that hostages might be moved to Damascus the following day; noted, “We also launched a plan to strike by air a guerilla base connected with the muderers of our 4 Marines.”]

1986

Thursday, June 26-Monday, June 30:

    For the 1st time this year the weather was beautiful each and every day.  We rode every morning, then Barney [Willard Barnett, fmr CHP; close friend, confidant and ‘ranch hand’], Dennis [LeBlanc; fmr CHP; part of Governor Reagan’s security detail and ‘ranch hand’] and I cut up some downed trees.  On Sun. we learned of Sen. East’s suicide–a sad time for all of us.  Now it is Mon. night and we are back at the White House.

1987

Sunday, June 28:

[Returned to W.H.; attended televised performance honoring Cole Porter and starring June Allyson, Patti Austin, Kaye Ballard, and Mel Torme’; telephoned Wasserman, surgery went well; received word that Paul Nitze’s wife died.]1988

Tuesday, June 28:

[Staff meeting on pending legislation; approved appointments.]

    NSC–I brought up the matter of Holocaust Museum.  It seems someone has approved a room dedicated to 1915 massacre of some Armenians by the Turks.  I’m against it but don’t know what we can do.  Latest intelligence has 10 more divisions on the border in N. Korea than we had estimated.  They’re playing games that may threaten the Olympics in S. Korea.  We have the Soviets pledge they won’t let anything like that happen. [….] a bomb plot in Panama City–an apartment bldg. housing about 40 of our mil. officers.  They’ve been moved out and on to the base.

    Met with our Sen. and Cong. leadership–Dole and Simpson, Bob Michel and Trent Lott.  A discussion of pending bills and the pol. games the Dems. are playing trying to get campaign issues.  Then a meeting with Meese and Carlucci regarding the investigation of the Pentagon.  Nothing much yet to report.

[Interviewed by biographer Edmund Morris; meeting with Israeli defense minister Yitzhak Rabin; went to dentist for teeth cleaning; received report on Conference for a Drug Free America; photos with GOP candidates; received allergy show and, as noted, “a little doctoring of my hearing aid.”]

Til Nex’Time….

This’n’That; June Twenty-Seventh #2; “Ronaldus-Magnus”

From President Ronald Reagan’s Diaries

    Today (June 27) in each year of President Reagan‘s first term:

1981

Wednesday, June 24-Monday June 29:

[Addressed National Jaycees Convention in San Antonio; Flew to L.A. and Century Plaza Hotel; made calls necessary before the following day’s congressional vote on budget.]

    There I was in Calif. and never left the hotel room except for a speech next day (noon) in the hotel dining room.  Just before going down learned we had won the 1st big vote.  It meant some quick changes in the speech.  Back to the room for an afternoon on the phone.  We won the next two votes and the victory was ours.

    Finally Fri. about 11 A.M. got out of the hotel and on to the ranch.  The weather was beautiful and so was Rancho del Cielo.  Patti [daughter, Davis {changed fr Reagan}] arrived Sat. morning.  We all rode in the A.M.  After lunch Geo. and Barbara Bush came up to brief me on European trip on their way to the Marcos’ Inaugural in Manilla.

[Relaxed  at the ranch, Monday, June 29: flew to Denver to address convention of the NAACP.  Returned to Washington.]

1982

Saturday, June 26-Sunday, June 27:

    Good weather–2 morning rides.  Ed M.[Meese, Att’y General], Jim B.[Baker III, Chief of Staff to the President], and Bill C. [Casey, Dir., Central Intelligence] helicoptered up with Mr and Mrs. George Shultz who had just arrived by Concorde from London.  We had a good working lunch.  I think things are going to work out find  Al [Haig, resigning Sec’y of State] will stay on for the transition.

    Sun. before leaving C. D. Bill and Bud McFarland called.  The Israeli cabinet has submitted a new idea.  Calls for a Lebanese army to disarm the P.L.O. in Beirut.  All of the armed P.L.O. will then be sent out of Lebanon to Syria.  The odd note was the Israeli call then for the U.S. to join in the negotiations with the P.L.O.  Heretofore, we have refused to do any talking to the P.L.O. until and unless they agreed to recognize Israel’s right to exit [exist?], which they’ve never done.  We’re having about 30 people in for dinner at the W.H. and then running Spielberg’s movie, “E.T.”

1983

Monday, June 27:

    Nancy left this A.M. for Phoenix.  I won’t see her unitl Wed. night–or is it Thurs. night–I’ll have to check.  Anyway I still don’t like this place without her.

    Met with Cardinal Krol who has returned from being with the Pope in Poland.  He believes there may well be some easing.  I believe also that Walesa may not be as much of a force as he once was.

[Photo session; issues lunch; videotapings; rehearsal for press conference.]

1984

Wednesday, June 27:

    Staff and NSC meetings.  Jesse Jackson off on his own diplomatic mission to Cuba, Nicaragua and other points Sout has tried to reach me by phone.  That is a call I’m not taking.  We have put Under Sec. of State Armacost on the phone at this end. J.J. has us on some pretty thin ice with his adventuring.  Commander Eric Liu (W.H. Staff Dr.), his wife and baby boy came by for a pic.  He’s being assigned to Bethesda Naval hosp.  He’s a good man.

    Met with 3 Gov’s. from Midwest on farm problems.  Between Tornadoes and Floods. agriculture is having a rough time.  But worse than nature is what reduced inflation has done.  Land prices when out of sight during the high inflation of the 70’s and 1980.  farmers borrowed using their land as collateral.  Now that sanity has returned to the market they are faced with big credit problems. 

    After lunch Geo. S. [Shultz-Sec’y of State] came in to report on our Ambassador to Central America and his meeting in Nicaragua.

[Addressed Conference on U.S./Soviet exchange; also National Association of Minority Contractors; meeting with Eureka boosters on college’s financial problems.]

Until Nex’Time….

This’n’That; June Fourteenth #2; More ‘Diaries’

The Reagan Diaries

    To the reader it should be blatantly obvious that “Ronaldus-Magnus” is by far, my favorite American president.  Arguably the best, most effective president of the twenty- and twenty-first centuries!  Diametrically opposed–both in thought, word and deed–to the “Clown” we have now, President Reagan firstly, lastly and always thought about the country and the affects his decisions had on it’s ‘health,’ welfare, growth, etc.  To that end, Mr Reagan never wanted to be “the first president to…;” at the end of the day, he only wanted what was best for the country.

    As my reading of “The Reagan Diaries” continues–time permitting–I’ve found entries about the possible selection and Senate confirmation of Mrs Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female Supreme Court Justice:

 

 

Monday, June 22  “Bill Smith {William French Smith, Mr Reagan‘s Attorney General, 1981-’85} came in on the Sup. Ct.  I believe if the check up goes well we should go with the lady in Ariz. to replace Potter Stewart to the Supreme Ct.”

Tuesday, July 7  “This morning I announced my nominee for Supreme Court, Mrs. O’Connor of Ariz.  I made some calls because someone has started a bonfire among the Right to Life people.  Apparently it all started with a woman–Dr. Gersten in Phoenix.  Her claims don’t match the record we have of O’Connor‘s voting record when she was a state Sen.  But she’s spread her message far & wide.  A full Cabinet meeting on the Ft. Chafee problem (Cubans–criminal & mentally deranged dumped on us by Castro).  We believe we can move them to an unused mil. base in Maryland which can be developed also as a holding area for legitimate refugees in the future.”

 

    President Reagan was far less concerned about Justice O’Connor being the first woman on the Supreme Court; less concerned about himself being the first president to nominate a woman for that position, than about what–and who–would be the best choice for the needs and requirements of the country as a whole.
Note:  Those “{….}” indicate that I added information to supplement and possibly clarify Mr Reagan‘s diary entries.
Til Nex’Time….

This’n’That; June Twelfth #2; Diaries

Again, Another Great Book ‘On The Cheap’

    As is the norm, when the “Young Miss Lovely” is off to what ever clothes shop she needs at the moment, I spend an hour or two at the local Barnes and Noble bookstore.  Last Sunday was no exception.  I found at least a dozen books I’d like to have but settled on one: “The Reagan Diaries,” edited by Douglas Brinkley.  It was on one of the store’s ‘cheap’ tables; I paid but $5.98, originally priced at $19.99.  This book received glowing reviews from such publications as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Christian Science Monitor, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Magazine, The Oklahoman, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Times [of London] Literary Supplement, and The Washington Post, among others.  

    Most entries in this book are correct and complete quotes from the original diaries, others are in brackets ( “[-]”) which indicate they are the editor’s summaries of less important information.  So far, I’m through page 27 and already I’ve found about a dozen entries worthy of quote, like:

“Monday, March 30  My day to address the Bldg. & Const. Trades Nat. Conf. A.F.L.-C.I.O. at the Hilton Ballroom-2 P.M.  Was all dressed to go & for some reason at the last min. took off my really good wrist watch & wore an older one.

    Left the hotel at the usual side entrance and headed for the car–suddenly there was a burst of gun fire from the left.  S.S. Agent pushed me onto the floor of the car & jumped on top.  I felt a blow in my upper back that was unbelievably painful.  I was sure he’d broken my rib.  The car took off.  I sat up on the edge of the seat almost paralyzed by pain.  Then I began coughing up blood which made both of us think–yes I had a broken rib & it had punctured a lung.  He switched orders from W.H. to Geo. Wash. U. Hosp.

    By the time we arrived I was having great trouble getting enough air.  We did not know that Tim McCarthy (S.S.) had been shot in the chest, Jim Brady in the Head & a policeman Tom Delahanty in the neck.

    I walked into the emergency room and was hoisted onto a cart where I was stripped of my closthes.  It was then we learned I’d been shot & had a bullet in my lung.

    Gettin shot hurts.  Still my fear was growing because no matter how hard I tried to breathe it seemed I was getting less & less air.  I focused on that tiled ceiling and prayed.  But I realized I couldn’t ask for Gods help while at the same time I felt hatred for the mixed up young man who had shot me.  Isn’t that the meaning of the lost sheep?  We are all Gods children & therefore equally beloved by him.  I began to pray for his soul and that he would find his way back to the fold.

    I opened my eyes once to find Nancy there.  I pray I’ll never face a day when she isn’t there.  Of all the ways God has blessed me giving her to mie is the greatest and beyond anything I can ever hope to deserve.

    All the kids arrived and the hours ran together in a blur during which I was operated on.  I know it’s going to be a long recovery but there has been such anoutpouring of love from all over.

    The days of therapy, transfusion, intravenous etc. have gone by–now it is Sat. April 11 and this morning I left the hospital and am here at the W.H. with Nancy & Patti.  The treatment, the warmth, the skill of those at G.W. has been magnificent but it’s great to be here at home.

    Whatever happens now I owe my life to Go and will try to serve him in every way I can.”

    This was written in President Reagan‘s own hand after the assassination attempt.  “Ronaldus-Magnus” was one of only two or three presidents who kept diaries throughout their administrations.  I’ll try to do other quotes as time goes on….

Til Nex’Time….

This’n’That; May Twenty-Second #2; Important Quotes

From Ronald W. Reagan:

    ….as ‘citizen‘ Ronald W. Reagan (1911-January 2, 1967):

Mister Ronald Reagan‘s remarks at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, Phoenix, Az., March 30, 1961:

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

Mister Ronald Reagan‘s remarks from “A Time for Choosing;” in support of the Barry Goldwater presidential candidacy, October 27, 1964:

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right.  There is only an up or down–up to a man’s age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order–or down t the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

Mister Ronald Reagan from the same speech:

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.  We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.  If we fail, at least let our children and and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here.  We did all that could be done.

    ….as the 33rd Governor, State of California (1967-1975):

Governor Reagan‘s remarks to the American Trucking Association Board of Directors, San Francisco, Ca., October 6, 1974:

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt.  When government does it, it sends you the bill.  And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways:  higher taxes and inflation.

Governor Reagan‘s Second Inaugural Address as Governor of California, Sacramento, Ca., January 4, 1971:
When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can–and often will–do too much.
Governor Reagan‘s Interview with Radio News West, Los Angeles, Ca., December 30, 1974:
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
Governor Reagan‘s remarks at a political reception, Chicago, Il., September 10, 1974:

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom.  We must never forget…. in the final analysis….that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.
Governor Reagan‘s remarks at a “Meet the Students” television taping, Sacramento, Ca., September 17, 1973:
One thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee…. was a nation governed by professional politicians who had a vested interest in getting reelected.  They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then looking…. forward to getting back to the farm.
    ….as the 40th President of the United States of America (1981-1989):
President Reagan‘s first Inaugural Address, U.S. Capitol, January 20,1981:

We hear much of special interest groups.  Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected.  It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we’re sick–professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers.  They are, in short, “We the people,” this breed called Americans.

President Reagan‘s remarks at a presidential news conference, The White House, January 29, 1981:
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper.  The people are the government.  What we create we ought to be able to control.
President Reagan‘s remarks at a Spirit of America rally, Atlanta, Ga., January 26, 1984:
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
President Reagan‘s remarks during a national radio address on economic growth, The White House, January 26, 1985:
We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems.
President Reagan‘s remarks to the faculty and students, St. John’s University, New York, N.Y.,  March 28, 1985:
….I hope that when you’re my age, you’ll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.
President Reagan‘s Address to the Nation, The White House, January 16, 1984: 
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
President Reagan‘s remarks to students at the Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, May 31, 1988:

Every once in a while, somebody has to get the bureaucracy by the neck and shake it loose and say “stop what you’re doing.”
President Reagan‘s final speech as president; his Farewell Address to the Nation from the Oval Office, January 11, 1989:

We’ve done our part.  And as I walk off into the city streets, a final word to the men and women of the Reagan revolution, the men and women across America wh for eight years did the work that brought America back.  My friends: We did it.  We weren’t just marking time.  We made a difference.  We made the city stronger.  We made the city freer, and we left her in good hands.  All in all, not bad, not bad at all.

President Reagan‘s remarks to the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York, N.Y., September 22, 1986:

 

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

    ….as an elder-statesman (1989-June 5, 2004):
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at the Republican National Convention, Houston, Tx., August 17, 1992 (the ‘….shining city….’ speech):
My fondest hope for each one of you–and especially for the young people here–is that you will love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.  May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will make the world a little better for your having been here.  May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.  Andy finally, my fellow Americans, may ever dawn be a great new beginning for America and every evening bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.
Former President Reagan, from the same speech:
And whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your confidence rather than your doubts.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, The White House, January 13, 1993:
Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era.  But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning.  For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks to the Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge, England, December 5, 1990:
A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets rough.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Ia., August 8, 1992:
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Former President Reagan‘s remarks to the Captive Nations Week Conference, Los Angeles, Ca., July 15, 1991:
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind.  Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few.  It is the universal right of all God’s children.
    Every president, every senator, every representative has a corps of speech-writers.  While ‘citizen’ Reagan, Governor Reagan, President Reagan, and Former President Reagan was no different in that respect, he many times wrote his own remarks in their entirety. Nearly every speech “Ronaldus-Magnus” gave was personally edited by him.  A far cry from the blusterful blather of today’s professional and amateur politicians; today’s teleprompter-readers at every level; in every political sub-division!
Enjoy!!

Til Nex’Time….

 

This’n’That; May Twenty-Second #1; November Elections

The Most Important Election In American History!

    While “Clown Prince ZERO-bama, the Narcissist” continues to steer the national debate away from his record of dismal failures, the most important topic–in the collective American mind–is the economy.  As noted in the quotes below, one Treasury Secretary and two presidents expound on federal spending, federal borrowing and the lack of public oversight.

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Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures, December, 1791:

    And as the vicissitudes (changeability) of Natons beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast  as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

President Calvin Coolidge‘s speech on the “Foundations of the Republic,” to a group of labor leaders, September 1, 1924:

    No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.  It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Bovernment, every time an appropriation bill  is passed.  The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living.  I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

President Ronald Reagan‘s remarks to a meeting of the National Association of Homebuilders, May 16, 1983:

    Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they’re not poised over the budget.  That’s as fat as ever and getting fatter.  What they’re ready to operate on is your wallet.

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President George W. Bush (43):  In his two full terms–a total of eight years—President Bush raised the national debt by $4.899 trillion to $10.626 trillion on his last day in office.  That equates to–on average–$5.103 BILLION per month in office.

“Clown Prince ZERO-bama, the Narcissist:”  In less than one presidential term–actually, just 40 months–our exalted ruler has increased the national debt to $15.735 trillion (www.usdebtclock.org) from $10.626 trillion on his first day as ruler, an increase of $5.109 trillion.  The owe-bama increase equates to–on average–an increase of $127.725 BILLION per month in office.  This means that our exalted ruler out-spent President Bush by 25 TIMES each-and-every-month in office!!  And yet, owe-bama continues to blame President Bush for the current debt levels!!

Former Governor Mitt Romney: The “Clown Prince‘s” Harvard law degree is essentially cancelled-out by Governor Mitt Romney‘s Harvard law degree.  This puts Governor Mitt Romney ahead–in education and experience–by one Harvard MBA; by his highly successful private business experiences; by his profitable management of the 2002 Winter Olympics.

We ALL gotta lotta thinkin’ ta do ba’fore November!!

Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; May Eighth #4; All That Emptiness!

I Suggest owe-bama Quit As FAILURE Looms!

    “Clown Prince ZERO-bama, the Narcissist” ‘opened’ to a dismally small crowd in one of Ohio State’s many sports venues.

‘Borrowed’ from Rush Limbaugh’s EIB Network Site!

As evidenced by the photo above, owe-bama ‘played’ to a mostly-empty arena in Columbus, Ohio, supposedly one of the “swing” states.  Estimates have been 9,000-10,000 in this 20,000 seat venue in one of the largest universities in the owe-bama ‘Prince-dom!’

Photo by Romney Campaign Spokesman, Ryan Williams

 

The owe-bama campaign handlers used all the tricks like moving some attendees onto the floor to appear larger for the television coverage; like having students spend the previous week canvassing Columbus and it’s suburbs to drum up attendance.  Nothing worked!!  The ‘over-flow’ crowds his handlers had projected, NEVER MATERIALIZED, it was just owe-bama and his buddy, ‘Mr Teleprompter!!’

    As evidenced by the “Clown Prince‘s” ripoff of “Ronaldus-Magnus‘”  ‘Morning in America‘ campaign ad from 1984, the owe-bama re-immaculation is in deep doo-doo, as they say!  The result of the owe-bama strategists writing-off the middle-class, the working-class, the taxpayer-class voters is the aforementioned dismal turnouts as compared to the 2008 campaign.  Isn’t it kinda sad when gaggles of students can’t convince the locals to attend this (hee, hee, hee) vital (hee, hee, hee) campaign kick-off announcement?!?

(President Reagan‘s ‘Morning in America’ 1984 campaign ad:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY&feature=player_embedded

(The owe-bama ‘rip-off’ re-immaculation campaign ad:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F0OVngTHkNg

    Has the wind gone out of the re-immaculation ‘sails?!?’  The owe-bama handlers–read: George Soros and the ‘Bilderbergers‘–are having great difficulty in assembling a cohesive campaign; without original thought the owe-bama ‘spinners’ are forced to copy from previous, successful campaigns; source and topics, be dammed!!

‘Splain to me again why YOU elected this Arschloch!?!

Til Nex’Time….

This’n’That; April Twenty-Fourth #3; A Final Note:

Same Book; Dust Cover Paragraph:

    I would be remiss if I didn’t quote the entire paragraph on the back of the dustcover of one of my personal favorites–Ronald Reagan in Private:

    “When we arrived at the old presidential guesthouse in Lisbon where we would psend two nights, the drapes were drawn, but we could hear the muffled sounds of a demostration taking place across the street from our residence.  Reagan and I were upstairs together and he was eager to catch a glimpse of the protesters.  We tried to open the thick, floor-length curtains but they had been pinned shut by the Secret Service.  Suddenly Reagan spied a door leading to a small balcony overlooking the demonstration.

“Let’s go out there,” he suggested.

I was floored.  “You can’t go our there,” I said.  “The Secret Service would go crazy.”

Reagan grinned at me.  “Watch me.” he said, and opened the door and stepped onto the rooftop deck.  Shirtless, he leanded over the short wall to gaze below at the hundreds of shouting protesters demonstrating against him in the streets.

I entreated him to come back into the room.  “They might see you.”

“So What?” shrugged Reagan.

    Fortunately, none of the Lisbon demonstrators looked up or they would have glimpsed the bare-chested president of the United States surveying them!

    This was the Ronald Reagan I got to know in my four years as his executive assistant in his second term.  When he was visible–whether it was in meetings in the Oval Office or in the cabinet room, events in the Rose Garden, at press conferences and speeches in front of the nation or on the other side of the world–he was bigger than life as the president of the United States.  He looked, spoke and breathed the part.  But when you were alone with him, he was the nicest, most regular guy in the world.

–From Ronald Reagan in Private

That’s the final word–maybe–from me on the subject!

Til Nex’Time….

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This’n’That; April Twenty-Fourth #2; Finally, I’m FINISHED!!

A Book I’ve Been Reading For Months!

    I’ve finally completed “Ronald Reagan in Private,” by Jim Kuhn.  Mr Kuhn was President Reagan‘s “Executive Assistant to the President” during “Ronaldus-Magnus’” second-term.  Prior to that, he was Mr Reagan‘s personal assistant and the White House ‘advance man’ for official trips.

 

    Anyone who knows me personally, can not doubt the highest esteem I have for Ronald Reagan; secondarily for his grasp of economic and tax issues, but primarily for the lofty perch on which he placed the office of the President of the United States.  This book is one of the best ‘reads’ I’ve found on President Reagan‘s two-terms in office.  Mr Kuhn not only writes about the activities you and I know, but such things as:

President Reagan being responsible for a child’s pet fish;

[(This occurred during a Reagan-Gorbachev meeting in Geneva, Switzerland) Mr Kuhn writes:  Reagan had been faithfully feeding the fish belonging to the son of the Aga Kahn, but later than afternoon he suddenly noticed that one of them was, clearly, quite dead.   It was floating belly up at the top of the boy’s fish tank.  The president felt terrible about it.  I wondered what we were going to do and then decided that we would replace the fish.  I asked two of our advance team to go out and purchase two fish (one for backup) of the same size and breed.  We got the replacement fish but, unfortunately, our advance guys had told enough people about the dead fish, so the story got out that the president had killed the little boy’s fish.  The president left the boy an apologetic note.  “I don’t know what could have happened,” the note said.  He told the boy he’d replaced the fishe woth two other fish.  “I hope this is all right.”  He signed the note: “Your friend, Ronald Reagan.”] 

 

President Reagan speaking to Soviet college students;

[(This occurred on one of the Reagan‘s visits to Moscow; President Reagan making a scheduled speech to students at Moscow State University, with a follow-on Q&A period)  Mr Kuhn writes:  He (President Reagan) did a question-and-answer session with the students, telling them that he looked forward to a day when there would be no more nuclear weapons in the world.  One student asked him if youth had changed since he was a student.  Reagan smiled, recalling the day when he was California governer when “I could start a riot just by going to a campus.”  But all that has changed, he told the Moscow State students, “and I could be looking out at any American student body as well as I’m looking out here and would not be able to tell the difference between you.”  That was, in my mind one of the most symbolic events of President Reagan‘s extraordinary eight years in office.  The aging cold war warrior, entering the twilignt of his presidency, sahring his thoughts and wisdom with young people in a country he had once considered the font of all evil in the world.] 

 

President Reagan‘s ease with–and without–his ‘perks-of-power;’

[This occurred late in President Reagan’s second-term, as he played off a remark made by LBJ when told ‘his helicopter was ready;’ President Johnson told the sailor “Son, they’re all my helicopters.”  Mr Kuhn writes:  “Which one is ours?” I asked someone as we walked with President Reagan.  Overhearing me, Reagan turned to me with a wicked grin.  “Jim, they’re all my helicopters.”  We all burst out laughing, including the president.  We knew he didn’t meant it-in face, that was the joke. [….] That was Reagan.  Don’t take the perks of power too seriously-they are ephemeral and fleeting.  As his remarkable eight-year tenure wound down, he didn’t regret losing those benefits-or the job itself.]

    With the book finally finished, with ‘well tabbed’ important–at least to me–passages; it will now go to the ‘Ronaldus-Magnus‘ Wing of my personal library.  I think everyone should have a WELL READ copy in their libraries; you should get yours!!

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Til Nex’Time….