There's a feature on CNN today which compares the historical impact of Obama versus Reagan with the conclusion Reagan, according to some indeterminate number of historians, was more impactful.
Insofar as Reagan was almost single-handedly responsible for the destruction of the middle class, the estimation of impact is likely accurate but the collapse of the Soviet Union was more a matter of dumb luck than anything else. It was reported, after the fact, the CIA knew the Soviet economy was collapsing and Reagan's military build-up was largely irrelevant to it because their economy was falling apart anyway.
As to the Berlin Wall coming down, that was more a matter of Germans deciding they'd had enough. The time was right for it as there still could have been another bloodbath like in previous eastern European uprisings but the Germans kept on coming and there were too many to shoot all of them. No-one need tell me what Reagan did as Cat was there and she saw what really happened.
The non-critical stoogery of media is offensive as there is all manner of coverage of the nuclear deal Obama makes with Iran but nothing regarding the illegal arms deals with Iran brokered for Reagan by Oliver North. The same people who would saint Reagan are assailing Obama for working toward a legal resolution of differences rather than exacerbating them as did Reagan.
As usual, whenever there is a fire, CNN only uses it to make popcorn.
Note: Reagan started the death of the middle class with his trickle-down economic voodoo which they still preach and still has never worked but Clinton finished the job when he signed off on NAFTA and interstate banking. Clinton the Boobulous will push forward the Trans-Pacific Partnership to continue that tradition thus ending any pretense of the continued existence of the Democratic Party. Even if Sanders has no chance, I will not vote for Clinton because it's just another vote for bankers.
There's no change to the view from the blog as we don't consider Reagan or Obama Hall of Fame material. Eisenhower and FDR remain the only two from the last hundred years of any major note.
Insofar as Reagan was almost single-handedly responsible for the destruction of the middle class, the estimation of impact is likely accurate but the collapse of the Soviet Union was more a matter of dumb luck than anything else. It was reported, after the fact, the CIA knew the Soviet economy was collapsing and Reagan's military build-up was largely irrelevant to it because their economy was falling apart anyway.
As to the Berlin Wall coming down, that was more a matter of Germans deciding they'd had enough. The time was right for it as there still could have been another bloodbath like in previous eastern European uprisings but the Germans kept on coming and there were too many to shoot all of them. No-one need tell me what Reagan did as Cat was there and she saw what really happened.
The non-critical stoogery of media is offensive as there is all manner of coverage of the nuclear deal Obama makes with Iran but nothing regarding the illegal arms deals with Iran brokered for Reagan by Oliver North. The same people who would saint Reagan are assailing Obama for working toward a legal resolution of differences rather than exacerbating them as did Reagan.
As usual, whenever there is a fire, CNN only uses it to make popcorn.
Note: Reagan started the death of the middle class with his trickle-down economic voodoo which they still preach and still has never worked but Clinton finished the job when he signed off on NAFTA and interstate banking. Clinton the Boobulous will push forward the Trans-Pacific Partnership to continue that tradition thus ending any pretense of the continued existence of the Democratic Party. Even if Sanders has no chance, I will not vote for Clinton because it's just another vote for bankers.
There's no change to the view from the blog as we don't consider Reagan or Obama Hall of Fame material. Eisenhower and FDR remain the only two from the last hundred years of any major note.
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