Audio flashback: Reagan on national health care
posted at 2:34 pm on July 3, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Oh, that’s the stuff. Thanks to Iraq, we’re looking at a Democratic White House and Congress next year; bundle this up and send it to a Blue Dog you love before it’s too late.
But secretly. You wouldn’t want Harry or Nancy to catch them listening to it.
Many thanks to Greg H. at BeyondTheNews.com for the tip.
Update: Here’s an mp3 version.
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I SO miss our Ronnie. :(
tickleddragon on July 3, 2007 at 2:40 PM
Wait…wait…this has to be fake!
Someone from Hollywood…
…saying people from Hollywood would be PRETENTIOUS to tell everyone else what’s best for them???
Codswallop! Poppycock!
MadisonConservative on July 3, 2007 at 2:43 PM
I still say an actor could never be a great conservative president. Especially an actor who once belonged to the communist party, and was a democrat.
God bless him, a standard that all presidents will forever live by.
right2bright on July 3, 2007 at 2:53 PM
Good stuff!
PBoilermaker on July 3, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Michael Moore uses this clip in his movie, i thought you watched it AP?
zane on July 3, 2007 at 2:58 PM
if he uses this clip in his movie… how can he be for socialized medicine? is he just that much of a moron?
j_ehman on July 3, 2007 at 3:01 PM
And to think that there are Lib-Pukes in America today that have the audacity to question the greatness of this man. And those same Lib-Pukes are willingly and knowingly supporting Mrs. Bill “Slick Willy” Clinton pave the road to socialism that President Reagan warned us of in this speech many years ago. It is baffling how sheep-like people truly are.
LawCon on July 3, 2007 at 3:05 PM
It’s a shame that they don’t make them like Reagan any more. I do not recall any speach by Reagan that did not come off as “matter of fact” They gave you the feeling that he was just talking about common sense topics. I don’t thin k the acting background played any part. I believe he was a born leader.
Guest1.1 on July 3, 2007 at 3:09 PM
I really miss his clarity. Where have all the great leaders gone?
Brad on July 3, 2007 at 3:09 PM
I question the timing.
subbottomfeeder on July 3, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Does Moore use the whole clip or just parts that he edited?
bbz123 on July 3, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Points to ponder:
Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a groveling, dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to, … all others.
- Edward Britton
Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face, there will be a well-heeled, Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care …
- John Derbyshire
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his load by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
- Leo Tolstoy
Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want bread.
- Thomas Jefferson
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them … benefits.
- Plutarch
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
- Auberon Herbert
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand, as you cross the street, refuses to let go on the other side.
- Theodore J. Forstmann
OhEssYouCowboys on July 3, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Powerful stuff
Ann on July 3, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Nice.
Esthier on July 3, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Ronald Reagan was one of God’s gifts to America.
I pray there are more to come. God help us and have mercy on us.
stenwin77 on July 3, 2007 at 3:43 PM
Several years ago, I purchased a five CD set of “Reagan in his own voice”. It’s six hours of Mr. Reagan’s radio addresses, recorded when he read them. If you don’t have it, you should obtain a copy. It simply demonstrates (again) the intellectual brilliance of this man.
I fear we may never see another that’s his equal.
oldleprechaun on July 3, 2007 at 3:44 PM
Thankfully we have a lock on the presidency next year. With Hillarys negatives so high and with over 40% saying they’ll definitely vote against her at least we can hold onto the executive branch. Unfortunately the congress looks like another matter
Capitalist Infidel on July 3, 2007 at 4:06 PM
I’m still for a 3rd term for Reagan.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 3, 2007 at 4:39 PM
I sure wish I had been old enough, and politically caring enough to appreciate the man while he was president. Better late than never, in hindsight I see what a great man and president he was.
He will forever be missed!
stacman on July 3, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Ronald Reagan, Peace be upon Him! ’nuff said.
Wuptdo on July 3, 2007 at 4:54 PM
Ronnie’s vision was years ahead of his time.
It’s sickening for anyone to be compared to Ron. He was one of a kind and spoke plain and passionately. You’ll find no contrived image when studying him. He didn’t need to be something to everyone. He was what he was and didn’t fake it. People across ideological lines put aside a lot of their ideas and followed his. A true leader.
He was the greatest modern day president and every other president will be held to his standard.
csdeven on July 3, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Every once in a while I’m reminded how great Reagan was.
He was right on target about the rise of the nanny-state through liberalism. The thing he didn’t see was that it would be accomplished by a pervasive victim mentality.
jaime on July 3, 2007 at 5:40 PM
This is a wonderful speech. When it comes to the debates, and Hillary is the shrieking nominee and is debating (I think Fred!) these words that Reagan is speaking in this clip, could come back to bite her. Hard.
I can only hope.
CrimsonFisted on July 3, 2007 at 5:58 PM
In today’s day and age we first learn that we are not able to do anything on our own in school, whether it is to go to the bathroom or eat lunch or the quality of our work. We are taught that someone else will judge our work – on a completely arbitrary basis – and nothing we do matters. Twelve years of indoctrination that the government will take care of you – that only the government can take care of you – primes the student for socialism so that he/she can not even begin to imagine that there is another – a better – way of life. They choose to give up freedom because they have never truly known freedom; it was slowly beaten out of them. Our attention spans have shortened to about five seconds, our dissatisfaction levels are extremely high, men aren’t allowed to be men – in fact they are encouraged not to be, and if that doesn’t work they are drugged (ADD anyone?) We are kept at an infantile state, unable – and unwilling – to be responsible for ourselves. “We” is not exactly the right term, but in general, the American people – and that is the goal of liberalism – to create sheeple, docile and empty. While there are still those that fight and rail against the indoctrination, too many allow themselves to be led, straight to socialism. It’s extremely depressing that anyone willingly gives up freedom for perceived security, especially when the perceived security will be the death of all that is great.
Blight on July 3, 2007 at 6:53 PM
He’s definitely the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). He brought America back from the void of Carter. If we survived Carter, I feel we can survive almost anything!
SouthernGent on July 3, 2007 at 7:03 PM
What a novel idea. Actually allowing people to vote for something. Socialized (so sorry, Christianized according to Mikey), Shamnesty, Gay Marriage, abortion etc. My first Presidential election was a vote for this man. I’d do it without hesitation and proudly again today. Sadly there are No RR’s today.
We’ve seen what a great jobthe government is doing indoctrinating kids in the schools. When I was in high school we had forced busing, supposedly to make the schools better. My hometown was branded as a town full of racists, (Hmmm, sound familiar?) for wanting to go to neighborhood schools. We were sent across the city, when there were schools that were only a couple of blocks from the house. Vilolence every day. No education going on. Unrelated to health care, but a point to government involvement in what should be a private choice.
Sorry for the long post and rant. And for going off topic a bit
PowWow on July 3, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Granted, but can we survive Bush?
voiceofreason on July 3, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Prophet of the other great western religion, Americanism!
TBinSTL on July 3, 2007 at 7:38 PM
That was wonderful. Why don’t people talk like that anymore?
Jezla on July 3, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Amen!
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GT on July 3, 2007 at 9:44 PM
I lived through the Carter years. Bush is a hellava lot better than Carter.
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GT on July 3, 2007 at 9:46 PM
God’s Gift indeed! He was the greatest. And he was right, especially on liberalism and socialist being one and the same.
Zorro on July 3, 2007 at 9:49 PM
May I expound on the greatness of Ron? Well I’m going to whether you like it or not!
1976…a snot nosed “Knows everything” 14 yr old Blitz HATED his country and everything associated with it.
Even though this Blitz kid HATED Jimmah C. he didn’t know why….He grew up with Nixon,and unlike 99.99999999 of the country(according to his parents) he actually liked Nixon..His campaign in elementary school started with…Look,McGovern is a wimp…(This was in MA,not well received)
Anyway,fast forward..Iran happens…Energy crisis….Meat crisis…as far as I knew back then there MAY have been a prostitute crisis,but I’ll leave that for Ace to remember.
Does Anyone here remember the “meat crisis”….Don’t Make Baloney out of my Pony crap??….I was young,can’t remember time frame.
OK,So this RAY GUN comes along,and I’m prepared to hate him too…But as they say, a funny thing happened on the way to the forum…He made a modicum of sense. And THEN USA won gold in hockey at the Olympics(Do you Believe in Miracles…YESSSS)…and THEN the CDB did ‘In America’…and then a small miracle came about…
PEOPLE became proud of America again..not just me,but millions of us. Reagan was the catylyst of a new beginning…a small spark under tinder that was dry and just dying to be ignited. He ignited that spark and tended it quite well. Unfortunately,that’s JUST when the fire extinguishers(Kerry,Kennedy,Fonda,O’Neill,many others) decided that FIRE was the WORST thing in the world,that we should never have invented it and to use it woul be the death or ruin of us all. I didn’t believe that nor did many of YOU….
Today,we still HAVE the spirit of Ronald Reagan running through us, yet we have MORE Fire Extinguishers than ever. We need to LIGHT A FIRE in honor of him. The brighterthe flame,the more moths we’ll attract….
I know this was a ranting/roaming post and I’ll never post here again if you tell me not to,but…I just don’t have the words to put it succintly
Blitz on July 3, 2007 at 10:28 PM
…Well put, Blitz!. Didn’t read like a ranting/roaming post, at all. More like a passionate post; as was Ronald Reagan’s recording…Maybe the fog will start to clear..The fog that seemed to start in the early part of the 1990’s..Hmmm…The fog that is known as “political correctness”. I knew it was bad when it first reared it’s ugly head. Socialized health care is merely one of it’s symptoms…
Ben Here on July 4, 2007 at 12:27 AM
IMHO, fred? is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan.
csdeven on July 4, 2007 at 12:33 AM
To think that once just like JFK, he was once a democrat.
spike on July 4, 2007 at 12:33 AM
Whenever I eat jelly beans I pour a bag on the ground for Ron.
Seriously, though — he’s my favorite political figure of all time.
Mephistefales on July 4, 2007 at 1:08 AM
Listened to this 3 times in a row. Reagan was before my ‘time’, but is a God to me. Thanks AP for the find.
Kevin M on July 4, 2007 at 1:41 AM
Good Lord, I miss this man.
Kevin M on July 4, 2007 at 1:46 AM
Sorry to triple post (well, at least a little) but OMG this was a great man. If there was ever a good case for cloning, it’s Reagan.
Kevin M on July 4, 2007 at 1:56 AM
Great Post! We need to hear more of Regan, and perhaps from other great persons from the past, that are relevant to the present.
I am a fan of Regan, but on some things I think he is a bit off the mark. Medicare and Social Security has provided for many beyond it’s original intent. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering many Americans would experience without those programs.
The issue is that Health Insurance companies, and medical providers, are most often more interested in profit than providing medical benefit. Some regulation is necessary to level the playing field, to allow consumers to bargain on an equal basis.
omegaram on July 4, 2007 at 1:57 AM
To respond to omegaram’s post…I just wanted to say, being a medical student, that I have already endured 7 years of education post high school, going on my eighth year, and have gone hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt “just so I can make a PROFIT”. Oh yea, and after this is all over I get to work 80 hour workweeks for 3-5 years for about 10 bucks an hour…sounds like lots of profit to me…then you can start/buy a practice, all the while having to fight insurance companies for reimbursement.
This kind of thinking is problematic, because most Americans do not even begin to understand what it takes to become a physician. The training is very tough, the liscencing tests are incredibly difficult and expensive. I can guarantee you that you would be hard pressed to find many in it “just for profit”. We go into this profession because we want to help people. We are a very altruistic people, who volunteer at free clinics, give away free medication samples, and do missions work around the world. I am proud to soon be able to call myself doctor, it is a great prival this is because I know I will be able to help those in need.
Sorry for the long post/ranting, but this kind of talk is annoying.
Trtle2001 on July 5, 2007 at 1:20 AM
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